No April Fools-We want #visionzero with safer streets. Come make your voice heard at a town hall meeting in Brooklyn, 6-8pm-Tonight (4/1/14)
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Last week WNYC radio launched several journalistic endeavors into a surge of traffic fatalities that has been plaguing the citizens of NYC and newly instated mayor DeBlasio who has committed to #visionzero, a title for an initiative to reduce all traffic deaths to zero. In only two and half months of 2014 there have [...] Charlie McCorkell was going to Washington to fight for cyclists safety long before there was a National Bike Summit. He was painting his own bike lanes and taking matters into his own hands. You may know Charlie as the jovial owner of one of the most established bike shops in NYC, Bicycle Habitat, [...] Every day on my commute in NYC I witness reckless behavior from motorists, pedestrians and yes…we bikers. Cars driving in the bike lane, newspaper delivery trucks running red lights, doors flinging open, pedestrians not paying attention when jaywalking…And that’s just what I can witness from the front. Who knows what’s going on behind me. [...] (photos by Liz Patek) City Council member Brad Lander (39th Council District) joined many street safety activists today in Grand Army Plaza to say: “Visionzero starts today.” Holding up signs that said, “20 is Plenty,” participants are asking for legislation that would require a speed limit of 20 miles an hour to be [...] Since Brooklyn has now been rated as the second most expensive city to live in…perhaps we can work on it not being the deadliest place to cross a street or ride a bicycle. Motor vehicles are out of control, smashing into Hardware stores in Staten Island: (from the Staten Island Advance ) You’re not [...] |
 
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