Last week’s column presented 20 questions on vehicle and traffic law (VTL) and traffic safety. Hopefully you took the test and kept your answers. This article repeats the questions and gives the correct answers. - True or False - 1. If it is safe to do so, you may legally cross a ...

An annual winter feature of the weekly “Safety on the Roads” column is a 20-question quiz on vehicle and traffic law (VTL) and traffic control devices (TCDs). The first 10 questions are true/false and questions; questions 11 through 20 are multiple choice. If you follow the weekly columns, ...

Gov. Kathy Hochul recently announced that a total of 129,686 tickets were issued statewide as part of the national “Drive Sober or Get Pulled Over” traffic enforcement period between Christmas and New Year’s Day. The initiative, which targeted impaired and reckless drivers, ran from Dec. ...

The week of Jan. 5 was the first week Congestion Relief Zone tolls went into effect in lower Manhattan, as explained in last week’s “Safety on the Roads” article. Although one week is far from a representative sample of how effective the tolls will be on reducing the congestion problem ...

As of Jan. 5, vehicles entering the Central Business District (CBD) of New York City, popularly referred to as the Congestion Relief Zone (CRZ), have been charged a toll. The CRZ includes local streets and avenues at or below 60th Street in Manhattan and excludes trips entirely done on the FDR ...

In several previous articles I have stated that a good driver is predictable. One of the best ways to be predictable is to use the turn signal properly — a great way to tell other drivers what you intend to do. For example: if your turn signal isn’t on, other drivers would rightfully ...