#park-safety

#park-safety

Ariola drove several loops on Freedom Drive - the roadway that had long been off-limits to cars only to be reopened for car use late last year - then stared down the activists from the front seat of her climate-controlled Lincoln Corsair, which has been nabbed 38 times by city speed- and red-light cameras since 2017, according to city records.

I recently started taking him to a park for about 45 minutes before I take him home. I'm physically active and climb the slides, chase him around and play with him. He loves our time together. Over the last two weeks, there has been a little 6-year-old girl at the park who seems to be on her own. Her parents, I assume, are in the parking lot.

At the very moment the city is committing to safer, more ambitious street transformations on major corridors, allowing motor vehicles back onto streets within public parks moves in the opposite direction,

Central Park has become an e-vehicle expressway at the peril of pedestrians and everyone who uses the park, said Janet Schroeder, co-founder of the E-Vehicle Safety Alliance (EVSA). E-vehicles do not belong in Central Park or any NYC park. Schroeder also slammed the Central Park Conservancy for not taking a more aggressive stance against bikes in Central Park. We're here today because the Central Park Conservancy has not stood up at all against the dangers of e-bikes in the park, she said.

The kinds of behaviours this training would assist with include inappropriate comments, gestures, cat calling or even unwanted touching... anything that makes you feel unsafe is not OK.