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“We will not only lower speed limits on some of the city’s most crash-prone corridors, we will redouble our efforts to expand the hours when these life-saving speed cameras are in operation,” DOT Commissioner Gutman said.
By Michael V. Cusenza
Speed limits will be reduced on 45 miles of major streets with some the highest rates of crashes across Queens, Brooklyn, the Bronx, and Staten Island, Mayor Bill de Blasio announced Monday.
The NYPD will conduct a weeklong pedestrian and cyclist safety enforcement blitz, across all 77 patrol precincts, to crack down on drivers who speed and fail to yield, Hizzoner noted.
City to bump up road resurfacing on S.I., but officials say it’s not enough
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The Department of Transportation plans to resurface 155 miles of Staten Island roadways in the coming fiscal year, but local elected officials are fighting to increase that number above 200 miles, like the borough had seen in previous years. (Staten Island Advance)SIA
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STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. After a year in which roadway resurfacing plummeted amid the ongoing coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic, the city is planning to pave approximately 40 more miles on Staten Island next year, but local elected officials say that isn’t enough.
Time to sue de Blasio to get our full Staten Island Ferry service back (opinion)
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Don’t ask Mayor Bill de Blasio. He doesn’t know.
Don’t ask Hank Gutman, commissioner of the city Department of Transportation. He can’t tell you.
But nothing’s written in stone.
In case you’ve forgotten the plot here, full, around-the-clock, every half hour ferry service has been suspended for more than a year, thanks to COVID-19.
Full daytime service was restored last June, but overnight service, from midnight to 6 a.m., remains on an hourly basis only.
City To Reduce Speed Limit On 11 Roadways
arrow Transportation Commissioner Hank Gutman near Conduit Boulevard and Pitkin Avenue in East New York, on May 10, 2021 Department of Transportation
In an effort to prevent more car crashes, the de Blasio Administration will reduce the speed limit along 45 miles of streets at 11 locations in the four outer boroughs. Officials identified the roadways for having some of the highest rates of crashes in the city.
The new speed limits will go into effect in the coming weeks, and the NYPD will allow a 60-day grace period before ticketing will begin.
“Telling drivers to slow down – and working closely with the NYPD to hold dangerous drivers accountable – will save lives and make our city safer,” Mayor Bill de Blasio said in a statement.
De Blasio unveils massive expansion of NYC bike, bus lanes – with ‘bike boulevard’ in each borough Clayton Guse
Dozens of miles of New York City streets will be redesigned by year’s end to improve safety for cyclists and speed up commutes for bus riders, Mayor de Blasio announced Tuesday.
Hizzoner said the city is on pace to install 30 new miles of protected bike lanes and five new “busways” or streets where passenger car traffic is restricted before he leaves office at the end of the year. If crews finish the work, it’ll mark the quickest expansion of bus and bike lanes during a calendar year in the city’s history.