Transportation Alternatives

When Mayor-elect Mamdani takes office on January 1, he will control over 6,300 miles of streets throughout the five boroughs. Reducing car dependence is one of the best ways to reduce costs for New Yorkers. Owning a car costs nearly $9,000 annually, while taking transit costs just $1,500.

“' It's rare to get the opportunity to directly vote for safer streets,' said Charlie Baker, a spokesperson for the nonprofit Transportation Alternatives. Baker said the charter amendment would also help Mamdani deliver on his campaign pledge to make city buses faster."

We can’t wait to rein in New York City’s most dangerous drivers. That’s why we rallied with state and local elected officials outside City Hall today. Let’s pass the Stop Super Speeders bill into law and slow these reckless drivers down!

"It is a commonsense reform to allow the Department of Transportation to... make these fixes,” said Grace Rauh, the executive director of Citizens Union. "We would not ask the NYPD when they are concerned about the safety of New Yorkers to slow down their response."

Exclusive: The Mamdani administration says it will dramatically expand an effort by his predecessor to install speed governors inside city-owned vehicles, rising from 1,000 today to 3,000, preventing drivers from exceeding the speed limit. buff.ly/kBp8XG2

This morning, I was proud to stand with @nyc-dot.bsky.social in Astoria to announce the expansion of the Red Light Camera Program to cover 600 intersections across our city. These cameras are an essential tool to change how drivers behave and to prevent red light running and fatal crashes.

It's time to slow down the worst-of-the-worst drivers. Albany gave New York City the permission — now it's up to the City Council to swiftly pass the bill into law, and DOT to set up the speed-limiter program as soon as possible. The longer we wait, the more lives will be lost.

Red tape and overly bureaucratic processes are keeping our streets dangerous.

Celebrating 20 years ago when @openplans.org @ppsplacemaking.bsky.social & @transalt.org teamed together for the NYC Renaissance to create our wished for transformations of about a dozen of our public spaces. Basically ALL of them eventually happened. Here is Astor Place!

was talking to friends about this video/topic last week and every last one of them was dumbfounded that there's an easy way to reduce these fatalities by 40 percent, but the city instead is giving out exemptions right and left

There's a simple piece of technology that can prevent cyclists and pedestrians from being run over and killed by truck drivers. But few trucks operating on New York City's streets are required to have it — and many of those trucks get an exemption from the city itself. youtube.com/shorts/EWQWy...

20 is plenty. New York City has the opportunity to make our streets safer by crafting a thoughtful transition to 20 mph streets and bike lanes. Testimony from our Executive Director, Ben Furnas, at yesterday's City Council hearing on e-bikes and illegal high-speed devices:

"Between 2020 and 2024... more than 200 people were injured and three were killed in traffic crashes along the street. Transportation Alternatives, a transit advocacy group, recently called Canal 'one of the most dangerous streets in Manhattan.'" www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

Yesterday, the City Council held a massive, 10-hour, three-committee hearing on e-bikes, e-scooters, and high-speed illegal devices. How did it go? Read our newsletter: transalt.org/newsletter/l...

"Today, we are finally making good on a promise that Greenpoint families have been waiting decades to see fulfilled: turning a parking lot into a park," Mamdani said. abc7ny.com/post/mamdani...

Thank you to @bkbpreynoso.bsky.social for testifying at today's City Council hearing on "e-bike" safety.

Yesterday, a 75-year-old man in the Bronx was critically injured by an SUV driver who did not yield to him in the crosswalk. The same day, a 71-year-old woman in Brooklyn was critically injured by an SUV driver. Both New Yorkers are in the hospital with life-altering injuries.

Yesterday on 34th Street, a truck driver killed a delivery worker on her bike.

Let’s talk about “e-bikes." See you Wednesday at 9 AM in City Hall Park, wearing green! www.mobilize.us/transalt/eve...

Even outside of Manhattan, congestion pricing has created opportunities like this one in western Queens, where there are fewer cars on the road. DOT should proactively find other streets where public space might be reclaimed for people, and act with haste to redesign them.

The City has to make Citi Bike affordable again!

"There was a Hell Gate story last month about the Lyft-owned system’s increasingly high profits (followed up yesterday by Gothamist, which reported on the company’s back-door price hike in the form of slower e-bikes that cost more)." nyc.streetsblog.org/2026/09/25/f...

Ballot proposal 3 "would remove some steps that delay major transportation projects, in hopes of speeding up street safety initiatives, including bike and bus lanes, by 33%... allowing the DOT to start working on projects before presenting to community boards"

We applaud the Mamdani administration for speeding up bus commutes and improving street safety for tens of thousands of Bronx residents. The completion of the Tremont Avenue busway is a major accomplishment achieved in Year 1. We hope to see DOT rapidly roll out more busways!

New York City has a responsibility to both investigate these crashes and prevent the next one. CIS can’t fall behind. The NYPD needs to investigate more crashes to do their part in New York City’s Vision Zero ambitions.

At 6 p.m. tonight, join us for a testimony prep session! We need you in the room for the September 30 City Council "e-bike" hearing, to let council members know why they should focus on stemming the tide of illegal high-speed devices and regulating delivery app companies.

This awful story of two high school girls killed by a truck driver who failed to yield and turned into them is awful. Worse is reporting emphasizing they were riding two on an electric citibike- as if a single kid on a traditional bike would’ve had any different outcome. This story gets it right.

We’re counting on the City of New York to fix this chaotic intersection to make it safe. That means turn calming, protected bike infrastructure, and a protected bike intersection to prevent crashes and tragedies like this from ever happening again.