Streetsblog New York City

Streetsblog New York City stories from June 2009

• Tue 30: Report: NYPD Cruiser Hits Eight Pedestrians on LES [Updated] 10
• Tue 30: John Liu Stalls Bicycle Access Bill in Committee 4
• Tue 30: Memo to Ray Kelly: How About Barriers for Pedestrians, Too? 11
• Tue 30: First Look: A Walkable, Bikeable Gateway to the Brooklyn Bridge 24
• Tue 30: Adriano Espaillat Reaffirms Love of Traffic, Distaste for Tolls 2
• Tue 30: We Are the World 5
• Tue 30: Today’s Headlines 8
• Mon 29: Report: States Used $6.6B in Stimulus Cash on New Roads, Not Repair 1
• Mon 29: Take Action: Tell John Liu to Support the Bicycle Access Bill 4
• Mon 29: Fare Hike Coverage: We Know the Effect, But What About the Cause? 29
• Mon 29: Ask the RIOC: May I Park My Bike Tonight? 10
• Mon 29: Fifth Avenue, 1909: So Long Promenade, Hello Motorway 14
• Mon 29: Do Shiny New Roads “Only Make Idiots More Dangerous”? 7
• Mon 29: This Week in Livable Streets Events 2
• Mon 29: Today’s Headlines 6
• Fri 26: The Opposite of Ad Nauseam: Farrah on a Bike 5
• Fri 26: NYPD Taps James Tuller to Succeed Scagnelli as Transpo Chief 0
• Fri 26: New Yorkers Taxed (Again) for Not Owning Cars 12
• Fri 26: The Wall Street Tax Shelter That Crashed Your Local Transit Agency 9
• Fri 26: Help Oakland Name Its Own “Summer Streets” 0
• Fri 26: The Weekly Carnage 4
• Fri 26: The House Is Debating Its Climate Legislation Right Now [Updated] 1
• Fri 26: If New Yorkers Don’t Value Transit, Who Will? 24
• Fri 26: Today’s Headlines 5
• Thu 25: Boxer and Inhofe Agree: Transportation Policy Reform Can Wait 5
• Thu 25: Assembly Passes One-House Safe Driving Bill 4
• Thu 25: Meet the (Alleged) Road Rage Thug of Ninth Avenue: Gus Gonzalez 30
• Thu 25: Streetfilms: Hey Port Authority, How About More Room for Buses? 12
• Thu 25: Live Webcast: Environment & Public Works Committee Hearing 0
• Thu 25: Everywhere a Sign 13
• Thu 25: Nothing Says Tranquility Like the Hum of a Huge Diesel Engine 5
• Thu 25: Today’s Headlines 13
• Wed 24: Tune in Now: Ninth Avenue Road Rage Incident on CBS 2 News 14
• Wed 24: House Transpo Leaders and Obama DOT Run Off in Opposite Directions 0
• Wed 24: State Senate Bill Would Wipe Bad Driving Records Clean 14
• Wed 24: Take the Bus Rapid Transit Online Survey 7
• Wed 24: The High-Speed Rail Numbers Game: Is $13 Billion and 110 MPH Enough? 11
• Wed 24: House Dems Agree: Climate Bill Can Help Pay for Greener Transportation 0
• Wed 24: GAO Says We Need More Than a Vision for High Speed Rail 6
• Wed 24: Today’s Headlines 10
• Tue 23: DA Files Charge Against Cyclist Attacked by SUV Driver in 9th Ave Bike Lane 92
• Tue 23: Senators Seek Rail Safety Funding in Aftermath of Metro Crash 2
• Tue 23: STAA Tuned: Transpo Bill Leaves Funding Question Hanging 1
• Tue 23: DOT Responds to Park Slope Bike Lane Uprising With Thermoplast Surge 4
• Tue 23: DOT Proposes Park Circle Improvements; CB 7 Approves 13
• Tue 23: Destroying Highways to Rebuild Cities 16
• Tue 23: Today’s Headlines 8
• Mon 22: Oberstar’s Transportation Bill: The Early Word 3
• Mon 22: LADOT to Cyclists: “Watch the Road” or Be “Bug Splatter” 5
• Mon 22: Oberstar’s Transportation Bill: Download It in Full 0
• Mon 22: Streetfilms: After School With Livable Streets Education 6
• Mon 22: New Report Quantifies Benefits of Adding Smart Growth to Climate Bill 0
• Mon 22: Have Red Light Speed Cameras Saved Lives in Maryland? 9
• Mon 22: This Week in Livable Streets Events 0
• Mon 22: Today’s Headlines 7
• Fri 19: Ad Nauseam: Antisocial Thuggery From Pioneer 15
• Fri 19: House GOPers Propose Filling Trust Fund With Stimulus Money 5
• Fri 19: Urban Histories With Modern Lessons 2
• Fri 19: Might Nat Ford Succeed Lee Sander as MTA Boss? 0
• Fri 19: The Weekly Carnage 3
• Fri 19: Memo to DOH Commish: Don’t Be Afraid to Bike, or Push for Safer Biking 4
• Fri 19: Less Parking, More Healthy Food 6
• Fri 19: Today’s Headlines 5
• Thu 18: House Transpo Leaders United — in Frustration With the White House 2
• Thu 18: The Oberstar Bill: What About the Highways-Transit Split? 1
• Thu 18: Do Pedicabs Belong in Bike Lanes? 33
• Thu 18: Oberstar’s New Transportation Bill: Get the Highlights 3
• Thu 18: Streetfilms: A Bright Beginning for Phoenix Light Rail 10
• Thu 18: Tonight: DOT Unveils Plans for 181st Street in Washington Heights 5
• Thu 18: Bike and Ped Infrastructure Depends on Federal Funds, Too 1
• Thu 18: Today’s Headlines 6
• Wed 17: LaHood Asks for 18-Month Extension of Four-Year-Old Transpo Law 5
• Wed 17: Why We Need the Bicycle Access Bill 7
• Wed 17: DOT’s New Safety Ads: “Look” Doesn’t Flinch 19
• Wed 17: DOH Report on Child Deaths Offers No Solutions to Biggest Problem: Traffic 4
• Wed 17: U.S. DOT Clocks High-Speed Rail at 110 MPH, Give or Take 19
• Wed 17: Chicago Pays the Price for Parking Privatization 19
• Wed 17: A Failure of Design in Downtown New Haven 6
• Wed 17: Today’s Headlines 7
• Tue 16: WHO Report Highlights Global Health Risk of Traffic 3
• Tue 16: Eyes on the Street: Broadway Improved Beyond Times Square 22
• Tue 16: GOP’s New Attack on Health Care Reform Bill: It Promotes Walking! 12
• Tue 16: In the Works: Senate Bill to Promote Sustainable Development 1
• Tue 16: Final BRT Phase II Workshops This Week 0
• Tue 16: Tonight: Weigh In on What’s Next for Park Circle Improvements 0
• Tue 16: Report: Nation’s Cities Not Getting Their Share of Stimulus Transpo Money 1
• Tue 16: Now Arriving: Transit-Oriented Development 2
• Tue 16: Today’s Headlines 22
• Mon 15: John Liu on Bicycle Access Bill: Why Is DOT Involved in Bike Commuting? 14
• Mon 15: Oberstar to Release Transportation Outline on Wednesday 3
• Mon 15: Fallen Pedestrians Memorialized in Hell’s Kitchen 1
• Mon 15: This Week in Livable Streets Events 3
• Mon 15: The Two-Wheeling Future of Fort Worth 6
• Mon 15: Today’s Headlines 7
• Fri 12: New Urbanism: Built to Last 2
• Fri 12: Monday: Testify for a Bicycle Access Bill With Teeth 1
• Fri 12: Congress Agrees to Keep Transit Operating Aid in War Bill 2
• Fri 12: Saturday: Hell’s Kitchen to March for Pedestrian Safety 0
• Fri 12: The NYC Street Design Manual: Guidelines for a Livable City 2
• Fri 12: The Weekly Carnage 8
• Fri 12: New Urbanism, Old Urbanism and “Creative Destruction” 32
• Fri 12: Today’s Headlines 4
• Thu 11: Tweeting Live from the Congress for the New Urbanism in Denver 1
• Thu 11: Streetfilms: Queens Boulevard Bike Pool 6
• Thu 11: GOPers Blast the Newest Dem Star: How Dare He Pay for Transportation! 6
• Thu 11: Fifth Ave Merchants: Delivery Problems Have Nothing to Do With Bike Lane 12
• Thu 11: City Council Bill Aims to Quiet Motorcycle Noise 40
• Thu 11: Carnahan Steps Up Push for Federal Help With Transit Operating 3
• Thu 11: End Central Park Road Rage: Keep Cars Out 17
• Thu 11: Will Memphis Rise to the Transit Challenge? 9
• Thu 11: Today’s Headlines 23
• Wed 10: Is It Impossible to Track Down a Stolen Bike? 3
• Wed 10: National Transportation Funding Is Ailing — Is Michigan ‘Patient Zero’? 5
• Wed 10: Kent Avenue: The Saga Continues 6
• Wed 10: When Will Oberstar’s Transportation Bill Drop? Place Your Bets Now 1
• Wed 10: Brooklyn Carnage: Pedestrian Killed, Pedicabbie and Passengers Injured 14
• Wed 10: To Reduce Driving, Put a Real Price on Parking 3
• Wed 10: Today’s Headlines 15
• Tue 9: Streetcars in Seattle, Or Why America Should Mind Its Transit Gaps 34
• Tue 9: Lawmakers Push for Federal Help With Transit Operating: Read the Letter 3
• Tue 9: GOP-ers and Dems Agree: Feds Need to Get Their Transpo Act Together 8
• Tue 9: Tonight: Speak Up for Safer Cycling on Kent Ave 2
• Tue 9: Fifth Ave BID, CB6 District Manager Take Aim at Park Slope Bike Lane 64
• Tue 9: Introducing Streetsblog Capitol Hill 6
• Tue 9: The Rules of the Road Are Everyone’s Responsibility 14
• Tue 9: Today’s Headlines 11
• Mon 8: House to Vote This Week on Weak ‘Cash for Clunkers’ Plan 10
• Mon 8: Eyes on the Street: First Weekend of Car-Free Summer Streets 0
• Mon 8: Streetfilms: Tour de Brooklyn 2009 8
• Mon 8: This Week in Livable Streets Events 0
• Mon 8: Putting a Chill on Sprawl in New Jersey 3
• Mon 8: Today’s Headlines 28
• Fri 5: Pod People Wage War on Light Rail, Other Reality-Based Transpo Projects 228
• Fri 5: Real New Yorkers Dig the New Times Square 6
• Fri 5: Save the Tour de Brooklyn! Free Beer! 1
• Fri 5: Bike Racks Coming to a Neighborhood Near You 2
• Fri 5: Fourth Witness Reports Seeing Police Chase Van Before Fatal Crash 3
• Fri 5: Safety in Numbers: It’s Happening in NYC 16
• Fri 5: Summer Streets Coming to Brooklyn This Weekend 4
• Fri 5: To Reduce Pedestrian Fatalities, Focus Enforcement on Cars 13
• Fri 5: Today’s Headlines 2
• Thu 4: House GOP Urges Elimination of (GOP-Backed) Kid Safety Program 7
• Thu 4: New Version of Bicycle Access Bill Surfaces in City Council 7
• Thu 4: LaHood Vows to Avert Federal Transpo Bankruptcy and Pay For It 5
• Thu 4: Cops on Scooters Trail Greenway Cyclists 14
• Thu 4: Tonight: Party With Matthew Modine, Rahzel, and Bicycle for a Day 2
• Thu 4: Slow Ride, Take It Easy 19
• Thu 4: Transit Planners to Congress: Please Figure Out How to Fund Us 3
• Thu 4: Today’s Headlines 13
• Wed 3: DA Candidates Pledge Tougher Stance on Vehicular Crime 20
• Wed 3: LaHood, Biden Meet With Governors on High-Speed Rail 14
• Wed 3: Meridian, Mississippi: What Trains Can Do for a City 4
• Wed 3: The Fuse Is Still Lit on MTA Debt Bomb 3
• Wed 3: Getting Real About High-Speed Rail 8
• Wed 3: Today’s Headlines 3
• Tue 2: Cycling in National Cemetery: Yea or Nay? 8
• Tue 2: Wednesday: Public Meeting With NYPD About Upper Manhattan Lawless Driving 5
• Tue 2: Bush Transpo Secretary’s Biggest Disappointment: Bush 6
• Tue 2: Tomorrow Morning, an NYC First: DA Candidates Debate Traffic Justice 1
• Tue 2: Obama’s Highways Chief: Wishy-Washy on Emissions? 4
• Tue 2: Randal O’Toole: Taking Liberties With the Facts 50
• Tue 2: Cyclist Struck Yesterday Morning at Third and Atlantic in Brooklyn 7
• Tue 2: Using the Hive Mind to Make Biking Safer 10
• Tue 2: Today’s Headlines 11
• Mon 1: The Short History of Queensboro Bridge Tolls 7
• Mon 1: Solve the Congestion Crisis And Win $50,000 6
• Mon 1: If Texting-While-Driving Ban Fails, Blame Albany’s “Democracy of One” 10
• Mon 1: This Week in Livable Streets Events 2
• Mon 1: Streetfilms: The Queensboro Bridge Turns 100 4
• Mon 1: Brian Lehrer’s Bike Stolen — How Should He Lock Up His Next Ride? 26
• Mon 1: How the Autocentric Lifestyle Hurts Our Kids 8
• Mon 1: Today’s Headlines 5