http://www.nyc.gov/html/dot NYC.gov RSS en Copyright 2015 City of New York Mon, 13 Jul 2015 14:31:00 EST http://www.nyc.gov/html/dot/html/pr2013/pr13_18.shtml New York City Department of Transportation Commissioner (DOT) Janette Sadik-Khan today released 2012 traffic safety statistics and called for swift state authorization for the City to use speed-camera enforcement for the first time, with a priority given to streets near schools with documented speeding. Statistics show that New York City in 2012 sustained the recent historic lows seen in annual traffic fatalities, though speeding was the greatest single factor in traffic deaths, contributing to 81 fatal traffic crashes—about 30% of all traffic fatalities—while fatal hit-and-run fatalities increased 31% since 2010 to 47 last year. DOT also released a map (attached) identifying 100 priority schools across the five boroughs where 75% of vehicles or more were found to be speeding within a quarter-mile of school grounds. Our previous efforts to enhance street safety—including street redesigns, increasing the number of red-light cameras and aggressive enforcement of traffic laws—have contributed to the safest years on record and a reduction in traffic fatalities by more than 30 percent in the past decade—and 54,000 fewer traffic injuries a year compared to 2001. Today, New York City traffic fatality rates are less than one-third of the national average and half that of other big cities. NYPD issued 1 million moving violations last year, 71,000 of them for speeding alone. http://www.nyc.gov/html/dot/html/pr2013/pr13_18.shtml Mon, 18 Mar 2013 14:34:00 EDT http://www.nyc.gov/html/dot/html/pr2013/pr13_17.shtml Effective Monday, March 18 Street Cleaning/Alternate Side Parking (ASP) regulations will be temporarily suspended in parts of the Washington Heights and Inwood neighborhoods of Manhattan Community District 12 for approximately until further notice as the Department of Transportation (DOT) begins the first of two phases to install new, reduced parking regulations. Approximately 1,700 signs in the area will be installed during this phase, reducing frequency and duration of residential street cleaning parking restrictions, easing parking for local residents. The new rules were established by the Department of Sanitation at the request of Community Board 12, which became the second community to receive reduced parking regulations since legislation passed the City Council in 2011 allowing for a reduction if streets within the Community District met City standards for cleanliness. To be eligible for such a reduction, the boards must receive an average street cleanliness scorecard rating of at least 90 for two consecutive fiscal years. Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg announced in September 2009 that the City would continue to reduce parking restrictions in additional locations if street cleanliness ratings remained at high levels, following the implementation of pilot programs in Brooklyn’s Community Districts 2, 6 and 7, and immediately prior to a reduction pilot commencing in Community District 8 in the Bronx. http://www.nyc.gov/html/dot/html/pr2013/pr13_17.shtml Mon, 11 Mar 2013 17:34:00 EDT http://www.nyc.gov/html/dot/html/pr2013/pr13_16.shtml The New York City Department of Transportation, in conjunction with the Department of Sanitation, today announced that Alternate Side Parking regulations are suspended citywide tomorrow, Saturday, March 9, 2013, to facilitate snow removal. Meters and all other parking regulations remain in effect. http://www.nyc.gov/html/dot/html/pr2013/pr13_16.shtml Fri, 08 Mar 2013 18:01:00 EST http://www.nyc.gov/html/dot/html/pr2013/13_15.shtml The New York City Department of Transportation, in conjunction with the Department of Sanitation, today announced that Alternate Side Parking regulations are suspended citywide today, Friday, March 8, 2013, to facilitate snow removal. Meters and all other parking regulations remain in effect. http://www.nyc.gov/html/dot/html/pr2013/13_15.shtml Fri, 08 Mar 2013 06:28:00 EST http://www.nyc.gov/html/dot/html/pr2013/pr13_14.shtml New York City Department of Transportation (DOT) Commissioner Janette Sadik-Khan and Deputy Mayor for Economic Development Robert K. Steel today joined with major national auto insurance carriers Allstate and Progressive to announce that New York motorists now have the option of obtaining usage-based car insurance, an innovative program that uses in-car technology to save money for motorists who drive less and who drive safely. Allstate’s Drive Wise and Progressive’s Snapshot services provide discounts up to 30 percent for motorists who drive fewer miles, avoid short stops or drive at safe speeds and during daytime hours, using data collected by in-car devices provided by the insurance companies. This concept, which is expanding rapidly within the insurance industry, rewards good driving behavior and allows motorists who drive less frequently to pay rates appropriate to their road usage and safe driving practices. That could result in a break in insurance premiums for New Yorkers, who drive less than motorists in many other cities and parts of the state. http://www.nyc.gov/html/dot/html/pr2013/pr13_14.shtml Wed, 20 Feb 2013 11:29:00 EST http://www.nyc.gov/html/dot/html/pr2013/pr13_13.shtml New York City Department of Transportation (DOT) Commissioner Janette Sadik-Khan today announced the opening of the new westbound Fresh Creek Basin Bridge—a key component of the Belt Parkway that serves up to 150,000 cars a day through Brooklyn and Queens to Nassau County and John F. Kennedy International Airport to the east and to the Gowanus Expressway and Verrazano-Narrows Bridge to the west. The new span is approximately 126 feet wide and 407 feet long, and its opening reflects a new milestone in the ongoing project to reconstruct seven key parkway bridges: Bay Ridge Avenue, Nostrand Avenue, Gerritsen Inlet, Mill Basin, Paerdegat Basin and Rockaway Parkway. The $111.7 million replacement of the Fresh Creek Basin Bridge began in 2009. The first phase of the replacement occurred in March 2012, when the eastbound Fresh Creek Basin Bridge opened to traffic. http://www.nyc.gov/html/dot/html/pr2013/pr13_13.shtml Sat, 16 Feb 2013 11:24:00 EST http://www.nyc.gov/html/dot/html/pr2013/pr13_12.shtml The New York City Department of Transportation, in conjunction with the Department of Sanitation, today announced that Alternate Side Parking (ASP) regulations will be suspended citywide tomorrow, Monday, February 11, 2013, to facilitate snow removal. http://www.nyc.gov/html/dot/html/pr2013/pr13_12.shtml Sun, 10 Feb 2013 12:37:00 EST http://www.nyc.gov/html/dot/html/pr2013/pr12_11.shtml The New York City Department of Transportation today announced that, in addition to the suspension of Alternate Side Parking (ASP) regulations, parking meter regulations will be suspended citywide tomorrow, Saturday, Feb. 9, 2013, in order to facilitate storm response. ASP and meter rules are not in effect Sunday, Feb. 10. http://www.nyc.gov/html/dot/html/pr2013/pr12_11.shtml Fri, 08 Feb 2013 14:17:00 EST http://www.nyc.gov/html/dot/html/pr2013/pr13_10.shtml The New York City Department of Transportation, in conjunction with the Department of Sanitation, today announced that Alternate Side Parking Regulations will be suspended citywide tomorrow, Friday, Feb. 8, 2013, to facilitate storm preparation. http://www.nyc.gov/html/dot/html/pr2013/pr13_10.shtml Thu, 07 Feb 2013 11:20:00 EST http://www.nyc.gov/html/dot/html/pr2013/pr13_09.shtml New York City Department of Transportation (DOT) Commissioner Janette Sadik-Khan today announced that the City has teamed up with delivery.com to equip 1,500 commercial cyclists with free retro-reflective vests, bells and bike lights, strengthening the City’s ongoing efforts to make the streets safer for everyone using them. The safety kits, part of SaferHood, DOT and delivery.com’s joint safety initiative, will be distributed directly to delivery cyclists at the agency’s ongoing multi-language commercial bicyclist forums. DOT held a series of 17 forums last year to educate business owners and delivery cyclists on bike safety laws, also giving out more than nearly 2,000 safety equipment kits, and the agency has distributed 75,000 helmets to all New Yorkers. Since July, DOT’s new six-person team of inspectors also have visited 3,530 businesses that employ delivery cyclists to inform them of existing legal requirements to provide helmets, well-equipped bikes, upper body apparel such as vests and ID numbers to delivery workers, and that they hang a bicycle safety poster for employees or face fines ranging from $100 to $250. The Commissioner joined Jed Kleckner, CEO of delivery.com; Letizia Manfredi, Director of Operations, Serafina; Michael Buckley, President, Gramercy Wine Cellars; Sarita Ekya, owner, S'MAC; Mangesh Shah, Owner, Village Farm and Grocery and Marsilio, General Manager and Beverage Director, Spice Group at Union Square to unveil the SaferHood-branded safety gear. http://www.nyc.gov/html/dot/html/pr2013/pr13_09.shtml Thu, 31 Jan 2013 11:42:00 EST http://www.nyc.gov/html/dot/html/pr2013/pr13_06.shtml The New York City Department of Transportation today announced that the eight-week emergency ferry service to Great Kills, Staten Island will conclude Friday, Jan. 25, the end of the eighth week of the temporary service. The service launched Nov. 26 using FEMA Sandy recovery funding, connecting Great Kills Park with Pier 11 at Wall Street and in Midtown at East 35th Street in Manhattan with six morning and six evening departures. While there are no plans to extend the service at this time, the City will continue to work with the borough’s elected officials to build on recent transportation improvements. http://www.nyc.gov/html/dot/html/pr2013/pr13_06.shtml Fri, 18 Jan 2013 14:48:00 EST http://www.nyc.gov/html/dot/html/pr2013/pr13-05.shtml New York City Department of Transportation (DOT) Commissioner Janette Sadik-Khan, Department of Design and Construction (DDC) Commissioner David Burney, Brooklyn Borough President Marty Markowitz, Congress Member Nydia Velazquez, Assembly Member Walter T. Mosley, Downtown Brooklyn Partnership President Tucker Reed and Muss Development Chief Operating Officer Jeff Kay, joined by representatives from the MetroTech BID, Shake Shack and NYU-Poly, today announced the opening of the newly reconstructed Willoughby Plaza in Downtown Brooklyn, providing 14,000 square-feet of pedestrian space, enhanced greenery, public seating and other amenities to the neighborhood’s many residents and visitors. Originally installed using temporary seating and other temporary materials on a stretch of Willoughby Street between Adams and Pearl streets in 2006, the plaza has become a hub for development, with Shake Shack, Panera Bread and numerous other businesses opening alongside the now-vibrant pedestrian area and serving major tenants in the area. Muss Development recently created a new building façade at 345 Adams Street to take advantage of the new pedestrian space, with plans to open ground-floor retail and restaurants. The reopened pedestrian space, featuring new planted areas, additional trees tables and other seating areas, is the first of the DOT Plaza Program’s plaza spaces built with temporary materials to be completely redesigned and rebuilt as part of a capital construction project, including extension of concrete sidewalks, underground utility work and new tree plantings. The Downtown Brooklyn Partnership will be responsible for cleaning and maintaining the enhanced space as well as community programming and events in the reconstructed plaza, which will serve as an example of the numerous options available to other neighborhoods as additional plazas around the city are permanently rebuilt. http://www.nyc.gov/html/dot/html/pr2013/pr13-05.shtml Fri, 18 Jan 2013 12:11:00 EST http://www.nyc.gov/html/dot/html/pr2013/pr13_03.shtml As part of the New York City Department of Transportation (DOT) project to rehabilitate the Brooklyn Bridge ramps and approaches, a full closure of the Manhattan-bound lanes of the bridge will be required this weekend, from 12:01 a.m. Saturday, Jan. 12th to 6 a.m. Monday, January 14th. During this 54-hour closure, all Manhattan-bound traffic will be redirected to alternate crossings, including the Manhattan Bridge, the Williamsburg Bridge and the Brooklyn-Battery Tunnel, an MTA-tolled facility. Brooklyn-bound vehicular access onto the bridge will be maintained via ramps from Pearl Street and Centre Street, following a contraflow configuration on the bridge itself. During this weekend only, there will be additional access to the bridge via the Park Row ramp from Frankfort Street during the hours of 6:00 a.m. Saturday, January 12th until 1:00 a.m. Sunday, January 13th and again on Sunday from 9:00 a.m. until 11:00 p.m. These weekend closures will allow for deck concrete placement to be performed at Ramp F, from Exit 2 off the FDR South to Robert F. Wagner Place, and along the Brooklyn-bound lanes of the bridge at the Prospect and Washington Street structures. These operations are vital in bringing the bridge to a state of good repair. As with recent, related closures of the bridge during this project, all motorists are urged to avoid the area if possible and use alternate routes. http://www.nyc.gov/html/dot/html/pr2013/pr13_03.shtml Fri, 11 Jan 2013 13:00:00 EST http://www.nyc.gov/html/dot/html/pr2013/pr13-02.shtml New York City Department of Transportation (DOT) Commissioner Janette Sadik-Khan City Council Speaker Christine Quinn and City Council Member Daniel R. Garodnick today unveiled newly designed and simplified parking regulation signs in Midtown's commercial parking areas, making it easier to see and read signs while reducing their size. The initial rollout replaces 6,300 parking regulation signs of varying colors, typefaces, font sizes and sometimes confusing phrasing with streamlined and standardized two-color signs that are phrased and formatted for easier readability. Council Member Garodnick first proposed simplifying the City's parking regulation signs in 2011. Working collaboratively with the City Council, DOT developed the new, easy to read signs, which will be installed in Midtown's paid commercial parking areas through the spring and installation will follow in other parts of the city. The Commissioner, Speaker Quinn and Council Member Garodnick unveiled the signs at West 55th Street and Sixth Avenue in Manhattan, where they were first installed. http://www.nyc.gov/html/dot/html/pr2013/pr13-02.shtml Mon, 07 Jan 2013 11:32:00 EST