Biking

Right of Way is a safer street advocacy organization. It started in the mid-nineties as a response to traffic violence. We use direct action to highlight issues of injustice in public space. Our mission is to protect the right of way as a human right. The right of way we say is the right to move about in public space without being assaulted or intimidated or worse. On the streets of New York City, that right is often infringed upon by drivers of automobiles, so we focus on highlighting that issue with direct action, such as memorial projects and street signage. We’re currently working on a project called Twenty is Plenty. It’s part of an international movement to lower speed limits in cities on residential streets to twenty miles per hour. New York City has been having a hard time doing that, so we printed our own signs and have been installing them, particularly in neighborhood slow zones, which are areas where the community has requested slow zones from the city, and the city has either rejected those requests or approved them but not installed them for years. We are working with those communities to get them these signs and install them ourselves.