Streetsblog New York City

Streetsblog New York City stories from August 2007

• Fri 31: Happy Labor Day Weekend 6
• Fri 31: Climate Change: It’s What’s for Dinner 21
• Fri 31: City Promises $5M in Ped Safety Improvements at Mural Opening 13
• Fri 31: The Weekly Carnage 54
• Fri 31: Today’s Headlines 9
• Thu 30: New Pricing Poll Hits the Spin Cycle 14
• Thu 30: Brit’s Liberal Dems Want to Ban Cars Fueled By Gasoline 2
• Thu 30: Video: The Velib Project 14
• Thu 30: Today’s Headlines 9
• Wed 29: Trek: A Bike Maker Flexes Some Advocacy Muscle 5
• Wed 29: Brooklyn Traffic Calming Mural Unveiled 5
• Wed 29: Casino-Jamming in the Catskills 5
• Wed 29: A Crash Course on Driver Safety for Parks Dept. Employees 16
• Wed 29: Carbon Tax vs. Cap and Trade 7
• Wed 29: Today’s Headlines 2
• Tue 28: Celebrating a Car-Free Afternoon In Prospect Park 12
• Tue 28: Queens Leaders Fight Safety Fixes for Fatal School Crossing 25
• Tue 28: City Issues Call for Pricing Tech Designs 31
• Tue 28: Today’s Headlines 17
• Mon 27: Prospect Park Car Restriction Starts Now 5
• Mon 27: Congestion Pricing News of the World 4
• Mon 27: New “People’s 311″ Site Maps Street Hazards 5
• Mon 27: What a Difference a Bench Makes 1
• Mon 27: Bike & Ped Improvements Slated for Manhattan Bridge Approach 18
• Mon 27: Today’s Headlines 18
• Fri 24: First-Ever Electronic Bus Status Display Installed in Manhattan 18
• Fri 24: Ich bin ein Bicyclist 17
• Fri 24: DOT Seeks Assistant Commissioner for Congestion Pricing 4
• Fri 24: Survey Finds That Buffered Bike Lanes Are Better 17
• Fri 24: Transit-Oriented America, Part 5: Wrap-Up 1
• Fri 24: The Weekly Carnage 2
• Fri 24: Lew Fidler Laments Impending Loss of Parking Permit 4
• Fri 24: Today’s Headlines 4
• Thu 23: Make Your Own Subway Advisory 0
• Thu 23: Legislator Wants New Jersey Rep on Pricing Panel 14
• Thu 23: Remainder of Federal Pot Goes to Toll Plans 6
• Thu 23: Crowds Heed Amtrak’s ‘All Aboard’ 15
• Thu 23: Transit-Oriented America, Part 4: The Trains 14
• Thu 23: Delivering the Goods to a Growing New York 7
• Thu 23: Today’s Headlines 4
• Wed 22: Bikes Are Traffic, Too 17
• Wed 22: Streetsblog Commenter Published in Boston Globe 3
• Wed 22: Central Park 66th Street Transverse Is Unsafe 11
• Wed 22: Improved DOT Rolls Out Improved Web Site 13
• Wed 22: Transit-Oriented America, Part 3: Three More Cities 30
• Wed 22: Breaking Carnage: Driver on Sidewalk at Court and Degraw 17
• Wed 22: Today’s Headlines 0
• Tue 21: Pricing Panel Appointees Announced 30
• Tue 21: Congestion Pricing Op-Art: The Joke’s on Whom? 18
• Tue 21: Officer Convicted in Beating Was Handing Off Parking Placard 2
• Tue 21: Speak Up for an Accessible Car-Free High Bridge 3
• Tue 21: Car-Free Hours Extended in Prospect Park 43
• Tue 21: Staten Island PlaNYC Panel Tonight 0
• Tue 21: Transit-Oriented America, Part 2: Three Cities 13
• Tue 21: Today’s Headlines 1
• Mon 20: Incredible SFPD Training Video: “Bikes Belong in Traffic” 10
• Mon 20: Wylde v. Brodsky on WNBC News Show 6
• Mon 20: Quinn Makes Pricing Panel Picks 14
• Mon 20: Cyclists Throwing Selves Under Cars in Brooklyn 28
• Mon 20: The Urban Transportation Report Card 7
• Mon 20: Transit-Oriented America, Part 1: Eight Thousand Miles 44
• Mon 20: Today’s Headlines 2
• Fri 17: For Your Weekend Viewing Pleasure: Portland! 11
• Fri 17: New Blog Expounds Joy, and Practicality, of Walking 10
• Fri 17: Pay Phones May Be a Bad Call for City 14
• Fri 17: Secretary Peters Says Bikes “Are Not Transportation” 56
• Fri 17: The Weekly Carnage 3
• Fri 17: Today’s Headlines 5
• Thu 16: As He Likes It: Weprin, and His Car, in the Park 12
• Thu 16: Henry Hudson Bridge Closed Until 2010, Unless You’re In a Car 9
• Thu 16: Pedicabs Protest New Regulations 9
• Thu 16: London Reaps Pricing Benefits 4
• Thu 16: City Still Sending Mixed Signals on Bike Parking 1
• Thu 16: Today’s Headlines 7
• Wed 15: A Brooklyn Parking Lot Becomes a Neighborhood “Living Room” 5
• Wed 15: Weiner on the Environment: Big Talk, Small Stick 52
• Wed 15: In London They Summons Their Own 5
• Wed 15: Car-Free Hours in Prospect Park? Fuhgeddaboutit! 33
• Wed 15: Today’s Headlines 3
• Tue 14: Video Shows Dangers of Upper East Side Bike Plan 50
• Tue 14: Feds to NYC: “Get on the Bus” 25
• Tue 14: Details of the US DOT’s $354.5 Million Grant to NYC 3
• Tue 14: Responses to $354 Million Federal Congestion Pricing Grant 29
• Tue 14: US DOT Gives NYC $354 Million for Congestion Pricing Plan 1
• Tue 14: The Cars That Ate New York 0
• Tue 14: New Streetsblog Feature: Comments Archive 4
• Tue 14: Today’s Headlines 1
• Mon 13: Tonight: Traffic-Calming Mural Preview & Fundraiser 3
• Mon 13: Commish Benepe Gently Reminds “Parkies” to Drive Safely 5
• Mon 13: What Up, G? 1
• Mon 13: Make That 21 Council Members in Favor of Pricing 4
• Mon 13: More on Rep. Patrick McHenry 3
• Mon 13: Thank You for the Extra Car-Free Hour, And… 4
• Mon 13: Today’s Headlines 4
• Fri 10: In the Shadow of the Queensboro Bridge 10
• Fri 10: City Launches “Public Plaza Initiative” at DUMBO Pocket Park 21
• Fri 10: New Streetsblog Feature: Compact Archives 0
• Fri 10: The Weekly Carnage 12
• Fri 10: Today’s Headlines 1
• Thu 9: Paint a Parking Lot, Put up a Paradise 1
• Thu 9: Congressman Ridicules Bikes as “19th Century Solution” 80
• Thu 9: Today’s Headlines 1
• Wed 8: The Storm of ’07 and the Commute of 8/8 8
• Wed 8: Open Thread: How Was Your Commute This Morning? 77
• Wed 8: When a Car Does the Killing, It’s Always an “Accident.” 11
• Wed 8: Today’s Headlines 9
• Tue 7: Hello, Dolly! 45
• Tue 7: What if Terrorists Killed as Many as Die in U.S. Car Crashes? 8
• Tue 7: City Building Opens New Indoor Bike Parking Facility 15
• Tue 7: Congestion Pricing Questions the Mayor Will Need to Answer 23
• Tue 7: Today’s Headlines 6
• Mon 6: New Blog Focuses on Tearing Down the “Highway to Nowhere” 7
• Mon 6: 20 City Council Members Support or Lean Towards Pricing 9
• Mon 6: Parks Dept. Confirms New Employee Parking Policy 0
• Mon 6: Central Park No Longer a Parking Lot for City Employees 15
• Mon 6: Today’s Headlines 13
• Fri 3: Saturday Evening in Jackson Heights, Queens: Feel the Pain 47
• Fri 3: Grist: NYC is Not One of the World’s Greenest Cities 55
• Fri 3: Manhattan Bridge Bikeway to Reopen on Monday 12
• Fri 3: The Weekly Carnage 2
• Fri 3: Today’s Headlines 10
• Thu 2: Melbourne, Australia After a Decade of Focus on Public Spaces 12
• Thu 2: Famed Danish Urbanist Jan Gehl in Town to Consult on PlaNYC 8
• Thu 2: Tonight: Park(ing) Day Planning Meeting 0
• Thu 2: Cool New Thing: What’s Your Walk Score? 32
• Thu 2: Today’s Headlines 3
• Wed 1: Congestion Pricing Returns to Stockholm 5
• Wed 1: Fear and Loathing on the Upper East Side 17
• Wed 1: Meatpacking Plaza Update 3
• Wed 1: August 1 Congestion Pricing Deadline Has Been Met 1
• Wed 1: Mayor Bloomberg’s Morning Commute 42
• Wed 1: August 1: The Mayor Shall Submit the Traffic Mitigation Plan 0
• Wed 1: City Backpedals, Says it is Now Making Space for Employee Bikes 4