Streetsblog New York City

Streetsblog New York City stories from November 2009

• Mon 30: LaHood to Congress: It’s Time to Talk About a Gas Tax Increase 8
• Mon 30: NYPD Sidewalk Hogs Make Way for Bike Parking and Benches (Updated) 12
• Mon 30: Unlicensed Drivers, Coddled By the Law, Kill Three More New Yorkers 20
• Mon 30: Streetfilms: Turning NYC’s Oldest Bridge Into Its Newest Bike-Ped Amenity 8
• Mon 30: Lancet Study: We Must Reduce Auto Dependency 10
• Mon 30: This Week: Party With TA, Tour Transit’s Past 1
• Mon 30: Today’s Headlines 18
• Wed 25: Kids on Bikes Where You Live 0
• Wed 25: Ninth Ave Road Rage Case: Bengen Cleared; Gonzalez Files to Dismiss 5
• Wed 25: Today’s Headlines 4
• Tue 24: A Reason to Give Thanks: State DOT Won’t Widen the Deegan 9
• Tue 24: City Planning Preserves Sidewalks, But Reinforces Parking Minimums 3
• Tue 24: Think Roads Pay for Themselves? Think Again 12
• Tue 24: Post-Leandra’s Law, New York Needs to Protect All Reckless Driving Victims 0
• Tue 24: To Snap Drivers Awake, State DOT May Sacrifice Cyclist Safety 11
• Tue 24: Dear Streetsbloggers: How Do You Spread the Word About Bike Lane Rules? 36
• Tue 24: A Car-Free Experiment Rolls into Jackson, Mississippi 1
• Tue 24: Today’s Headlines 5
• Mon 23: Eyes on the Street: Bigger Sidewalks, Better Bike Lanes, Safer Streets 13
• Mon 23: Which Anonymous Council Members Want JSK Gone? 14
• Mon 23: How Bill de Blasio and John Liu Can Stand Up for Transit Riders 8
• Mon 23: Charles Diez Gets 120 Days for Shooting Cyclist in the Head 43
• Mon 23: Brasilia’s Pathways of Desire 2
• Mon 23: This Week: Deegan Deadline, Jammy Jam, World Class Streets 0
• Mon 23: Today’s Headlines 13
• Fri 20: PSAs Rock! Watch the Winners of TA’s “Biking Rules” Video Contest 16
• Fri 20: Sunday and Monday: Bike Rack Roundup and CB Jammy Jam 0
• Fri 20: The Weekly Carnage 1
• Fri 20: In Progress: A More Walkable, Bikeable, Trottable Park Circle 18
• Fri 20: It’s Official: Chicago Parking Privatization a Massive Rip-Off 45
• Fri 20: To Thrive, Suburbs Might Become More Urban 1
• Fri 20: Coming Soon: @FakeAlbany 2
• Fri 20: Today’s Headlines 8
• Thu 19: $266 Million to Widen the Deegan. Crumbs for a More Livable Bronx River. 13
• Thu 19: Wanted: Your Photos of Kids on Bikes 5
• Thu 19: Streetsblog Capitol Hill Q&A: Four Questions For Rob Puentes 0
• Thu 19: In Third Term, Bloomberg Must Align All Agencies With PlaNYC 2
• Thu 19: City Council Parking Giveaway Will Bring More Gridlock 8
• Thu 19: Blaming the Pedestrian, Again 3
• Thu 19: Today’s Headlines 13
• Wed 18: If a New Car Can Demolish an Old One, How Is a Human Expected to Fare? 2
• Wed 18: Port Authority Work Puts GWB Sidewalks on Shifts 4
• Wed 18: World-Class Avenues for the East Side: What Great BRT Looks Like 52
• Wed 18: Bipartisan Support Builds for Six-Month Extension of Current Transpo Law 0
• Wed 18: U.S. DOT Secretary Gets a Message on Pedestrian Safety 4
• Wed 18: Streetfilms Shorties: West Side Highway Crash Aftermath 9
• Wed 18: Today’s Headlines 17
• Tue 17: Streetfilms: Veronica Moss Goes to Times Square 13
• Tue 17: Use Your Phone to Find Parking! Just, Um, Not While Driving. 10
• Tue 17: High Hopes — And Higher Standards — for Bloomberg 3.0 22
• Tue 17: Hudson Greenway “Cherry Walk” Users to Remain in the Dark 12
• Tue 17: How to Get More People Walking in Cincinnati? 1
• Tue 17: Today’s Headlines 10
• Mon 16: The Case for a Car-Free Halloween 4
• Mon 16: City Takes Small Step Toward Traffic Justice as Silver Continues to Obstruct 1
• Mon 16: Feds Propose to Expand Opportunities for Biking and Walking to Transit 3
• Mon 16: First Post-Election Business for City Council: Making Traffic Worse 24
• Mon 16: “Building Cities Shouldn’t Be a Partisan Issue” 11
• Mon 16: This Week: Community Boards, Pedestrian Planning, Bike Films 1
• Mon 16: Today’s Headlines 18
• Fri 13: Help Uncover the Truth About Traffic Violence 4
• Fri 13: Transit in Trouble Where You Live 8
• Fri 13: Status Report: DOT Considering Bike Facilities in East Side BRT Plan 4
• Fri 13: DOT Says Inwood Bike Shelter Didn’t Get Enough Use 8
• Fri 13: The Weekly Carnage 4
• Fri 13: Bus Rapid Transit Designs for East Side Avenues Still in Flux 62
• Fri 13: Message to Florida DOT: Time for Real Change Is Now 1
• Fri 13: Today’s Headlines 9
• Thu 12: Eyes on the Street: Access Denied 28
• Thu 12: Streetfilms: Bill Lind, a Conservative Voice for Transit 13
• Thu 12: Civil Servants Behaving Badly, With Deadly Results. What Can Be Done? 15
• Thu 12: Report: Even After MN Bridge Collapse, Transpo Earmarks Shun Repair 0
• Thu 12: State DOT’s Misplaced Priorities: Widening Highways While Bridges Crumble 9
• Thu 12: Taxi Surcharges and Congestion Pricing — They Go Great Together 15
• Thu 12: Tilting at Windmills in Minnesota 2
• Thu 12: Today’s Headlines 5
• Wed 11: A Safer Carmine Street? Break Out the Pitchforks! 54
• Wed 11: Concrete Truck Plows Into Canal Street Sidewalk, Injuring Eight 13
• Wed 11: NYC’s Next Four Years: From Good Enough to Great 11
• Wed 11: Eyes on the Street: You Don’t Belong in the Bike Lane, Sir 25
• Wed 11: Around the Country, Calls for Pedestrian Safety Grow Louder 5
• Wed 11: Today’s Headlines 13
• Tue 10: State DOT Channels Spirit of Robert Moses in Major Deegan Expansion Plan 8
• Tue 10: Tonight: Carmine Street Parking-Protected Bike Lane Back Before CB 2 8
• Tue 10: Eyes on the Street: The Case of the Vanishing Bike Shelter 14
• Tue 10: “All Infrastructure — and No People” 3
• Tue 10: Streetfilms: NYC Biking Up Big for Two Years Running 22
• Tue 10: Today’s Headlines 11
• Mon 9: Count on It: NYC Bike Commuting Climbs 26 Percent 13
• Mon 9: Pennies for Pedestrians: NY State Spends Small on Street Safety 6
• Mon 9: The Winning Transpo Formula for a Third Term: Sustainability + Populism 13
• Mon 9: Creating a Real Renaissance in Downtown Memphis 0
• Mon 9: “Crude World,” Major Deegan and a New Politics of Movement 0
• Mon 9: Today’s Headlines 2
• Fri 6: Safer, More Livable Streets for the East Side — The Campaign Heats Up 6
• Fri 6: How About a Climate Plan That Reduces Car Dependence? 6
• Fri 6: The Weekly Carnage 0
• Fri 6: Tish James: We Need to Improve NYC’s Most Unreliable Bus, But… 19
• Fri 6: LA Kids Tell City Hall How to Improve Biking — Via YouTube 0
• Fri 6: Today’s Headlines 12
• Thu 5: Garmin: Chat, Navigate and Steer — But Don’t Drive Distracted 9
• Thu 5: NYers Not Sold on Notion That Livable Streets Are Wrecking Economy 11
• Thu 5: Wanted: Your Photos of Crummy Transit Conditions 5
• Thu 5: Student Killed on Ninth Ave. Is Fourth City Pedestrian Fatality in Five Days 20
• Thu 5: Parks Dept. Truck Seriously Injures Wheelchair User in 8th Ave Bike Lane 27
• Thu 5: The Perils of Cul-de-Sac Development 1
• Thu 5: Boxer Okays Senate Climate Bill, Without Amendments or GOP 0
• Thu 5: Today’s Headlines 5
• Wed 4: Congress Set to Double the Size of Sprawl-Centric Home Buyer’s Tax Credit 11
• Wed 4: Even When the Killer Driver Is Drunk, Obstacles to Justice Abound 7
• Wed 4: The Third Term 9
• Wed 4: There’s Safety in (Bike-Specific) Infrastructure 2
• Wed 4: Today’s Headlines 15
• Tue 3: Election Day Open Thread #2: Returns and Ruminations 13
• Tue 3: Bike-Share: Not Just for French Commies 5
• Tue 3: Buffett’s Bet on Rail: What Does It Mean for Transport and Energy? 14
• Tue 3: Streetfilms: Congressman Earl Blumenauer Bikes NYC 7
• Tue 3: LA Road Rage Doc Convicted for Horrific 2008 Cyclist Assault 11
• Tue 3: Demanding Safe Passage for Americans with Disabilities 7
• Tue 3: Election Day Open Thread: How Busy Was Your Polling Place? 15
• Tue 3: Today’s Headlines 14
• Mon 2: Cliff Lee, the “Southpaw Straphanger,” Rides Again 4
• Mon 2: Obama Calls For ‘More Creative’ Ways to Pay For Infrastructure 9
• Mon 2: Brooklyn Bus Stop Draws Bigger Crowd Than Thompson Anti-BRT “Rally” 45
• Mon 2: Eyes on the Street: Disrespect, and Defiance, at the Bus Stop 11
• Mon 2: This Week in Livable Streets Events 1
• Mon 2: Bike Lanes Everywhere You Look 4
• Mon 2: Today’s Headlines 8