OPINION: The Cost of ‘Free’ Parking is Dirty Streets and Foul Air
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Our policy of forcing cars to move for street cleaning has many hidden costs, most notably the environmental effects of trading clean streets for polluted air.
Recent Streetsblog USA posts about Carnage
EXCERPT: There are No ‘Accidents’ — We Have Been Fooled into Thinking There Are
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This excerpt from the new book, "There Are No Accidents: The Deadly Rise of Injury and Disaster — Who Profits and Who Pays the Price" will make you rethink crashes, capitalism and culpability.
OPINION: Ordering Takeout? Stop Complaining and Look in the Mirror
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Entitled, app-using New Yorkers don't seem to understand their central role in creating unsafe streets.
OPINION: Let’s Fix These Killer ‘Signalized Sidewalks’
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A flawed intersection design helped lead to the traffic death of a toddler on Staten Island. Here's what we must do — and which intersections around the city to avoid.
Latest Attack Shows Our Failure to Prevent Cars Being Used as Weapons
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Policy, culture, and environment create conditions that all too often permit such crimes — and by failing to address those conditions, advocates argue, we practically ensure that such atrocities will continue to happen.
OPINION: How a ‘Bike Dad’ Became an Activist
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Former Sunnyside resident Alan Baglia describes his evolution from ordinary citizen to mover and shaker.