Comments on: Today’s Headlines http://www.streetsblog.org/2008/08/19/todays-headlines-468/ Covering the New York City Streets Renaissance Mon, 23 Nov 2009 19:16:53 -0500 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8 hourly 1 By: Andy B from Jersey http://www.streetsblog.org/2008/08/19/todays-headlines-468/comment-page-1/#comment-55344 Andy B from Jersey Tue, 19 Aug 2008 22:56:38 +0000 http://www.streetsblog.org/?p=4416#comment-55344 Great piece from CNN. It's nice to see the media start to take the side of bicyclists! I've seen plenty of pro-bicycling editorials in the New Jersey papers as of late. Here's a great example from the Asbury Park Press: http://www.app.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=2008808130399 Great piece from CNN. It's nice to see the media start to take the side of bicyclists! I've seen plenty of pro-bicycling editorials in the New Jersey papers as of late. Here's a great example from the Asbury Park Press:

http://www.app.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=2008808130399

]]> By: Niccolo Machiavelli http://www.streetsblog.org/2008/08/19/todays-headlines-468/comment-page-1/#comment-55330 Niccolo Machiavelli Tue, 19 Aug 2008 20:17:08 +0000 http://www.streetsblog.org/?p=4416#comment-55330 You gotta love Addabbo. Fighting the fare hike, complaining about how the MTA under-serves his neighborhood. Yet running right through the heart of his neighborhood is the abandoned Rockaway Branch of the LIRR. Each time the MTA tried to run trains down that track to serve his constituents and utilize that valuable resource the neighbors, who previously bought their homes at reduced prices because they abutted the right of way, squash the proposals. Time and time again. The politicians need the MTA to blame. Its a big agency, 60,000 employees, fully open to public scrutiny. It provides a gold mine of grievances for the aggressive politicians to pursue. You gotta love Addabbo. Fighting the fare hike, complaining about how the MTA under-serves his neighborhood. Yet running right through the heart of his neighborhood is the abandoned Rockaway Branch of the LIRR. Each time the MTA tried to run trains down that track to serve his constituents and utilize that valuable resource the neighbors, who previously bought their homes at reduced prices because they abutted the right of way, squash the proposals. Time and time again.
The politicians need the MTA to blame. Its a big agency, 60,000 employees, fully open to public scrutiny. It provides a gold mine of grievances for the aggressive politicians to pursue.

]]> By: Larry Littlefield http://www.streetsblog.org/2008/08/19/todays-headlines-468/comment-page-1/#comment-55303 Larry Littlefield Tue, 19 Aug 2008 16:01:07 +0000 http://www.streetsblog.org/?p=4416#comment-55303 School bus routes eliminated in fiscal crisis; kids forced to walk. http://www.nysun.com/national/schools-eliminate-bus-routes-as-fuel-prices-soar/84125/ "Health advocates long have encouraged students to walk, stressing the fitness benefits. But school and transportation officials say they fear that abruptly reducing bus service could lower attendance rates, increase traffic congestion, or endanger students if they cannot walk on sidewalks and crosswalks." "Major cuts loom in California, where schools are not required to provide transportation to campus. As a result, districts squeezed by fuel prices and fewer state dollars are trimming millions from transportation budgets." Money is going to drive everything for the next four years. The biggest argument for walking and riding bicycles will be cost. School bus routes eliminated in fiscal crisis; kids forced to walk.

http://www.nysun.com/national/schools-eliminate-bus-routes-as-fuel-prices-soar/84125/

"Health advocates long have encouraged students to walk, stressing the fitness benefits. But school and transportation officials say they fear that abruptly reducing bus service could lower attendance rates, increase traffic congestion, or endanger students if they cannot walk on sidewalks and crosswalks."

"Major cuts loom in California, where schools are not required to provide transportation to campus. As a result, districts squeezed by fuel prices and fewer state dollars are trimming millions from transportation budgets."

Money is going to drive everything for the next four years. The biggest argument for walking and riding bicycles will be cost.

]]> By: Max Rockatansky http://www.streetsblog.org/2008/08/19/todays-headlines-468/comment-page-1/#comment-55294 Max Rockatansky Tue, 19 Aug 2008 14:24:48 +0000 http://www.streetsblog.org/?p=4416#comment-55294 Imagining Seatless Subway Cars - Sounds horrible, can't believe how bad the 6 line is already and their solution is to cram more people in there? Imagining Seatless Subway Cars - Sounds horrible, can't believe how bad the 6 line is already and their solution is to cram more people in there?

]]> By: lee http://www.streetsblog.org/2008/08/19/todays-headlines-468/comment-page-1/#comment-55288 lee Tue, 19 Aug 2008 13:21:55 +0000 http://www.streetsblog.org/?p=4416#comment-55288 now if we could just get all those nypd cameras to charge people $8 ..... now if we could just get all those nypd cameras to charge people $8 .....

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