Queens Transportation News

In the winter, it was a skating rink. After a spring rain, it was a dirty lake.

The southwest corner at 157th Avenue and 79th Street in Lindenwood has been sinking slowly at least since 2013, neighbors say, and runoff rainwater from blocks around collects there after stroms.

Mayor de Blasio, the creator and undisputed champion of the city’s Vision Zero initiative, last Friday told a radio audience that he has not seen a bill that would put a lot more teeth into his administration’s traffic safety initiatives.

The legislation — Intro. 971 — was introduced by Councilman Brad Lander (D-Brooklyn) in June 2018.

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Mayor de Blasio, the creator and undisputed champion of the city’s Vision Zero initiative, on Friday told a radio audience that he has not seen a bill that would give a lot more teeth to his administration’s traffic safety initiatives.

Traffic safety advocates on Tuesday called on the city’s Department of Transportation to implement new measures to slow or reduce traffic in the area around LaGuardia Community College in Long Island City, and to speed up what has been started or is being planned.

Councilman Jimmy Van Bramer (D-Sunnyside) said the five-block radius around a stretch of Thomson Avenue includes not only LaGuardia CC but four high schools with a combined total of more than 50,000 students, faculty and staff; but that it is not designated as a school zone.