Streetsblog New York City

Streetsblog New York City stories from February 2010

• Fri 26: Community Benefits Agreements: What Do They Mean for Livable Streets? 6
• Fri 26: Forest City Ratner: Carlton Ave Bridge Closure “a Bit of a Conundrum” 9
• Fri 26: The Weekly Carnage 7
• Fri 26: Albany Chaos Open Thread 13
• Fri 26: Deja Vu Again: One-Man Senate Filibuster Imperils Federal Transport Law 10
• Fri 26: Mayor of Fort Worth: Autocentric Design “A Mistake” 2
• Fri 26: Today’s Headlines 7
• Thu 25: Which Bike Amenities Do You Value Most? Take the Survey 2
• Thu 25: Report: Obama’s 2011 Budget Leaves Cities in a Fiscal Hole of $16B-Plus 0
• Thu 25: Streetfilms: Fixing the Great Mistake of Planning for Cars 23
• Thu 25: On Transit Advocacy, Working Families Party Misses the Mark Again 10
• Thu 25: Albany to Drunk Drivers: We’ll Go Easy on You 11
• Thu 25: Kucinich Brings the Innerbelt Crossing Fight to DC 1
• Thu 25: Today’s Headlines 6
• Wed 24: Hummer Going the Way of the Dodo 8
• Wed 24: Sadik-Khan: NYC Will Try Out Bolder Bus Improvements, But Not Now 12
• Wed 24: Fact-Checking the Toyota Hearing: Lower Speeds Increase Safety 6
• Wed 24: East Village Bike Shop Manager Speaks on NYPD Bust 15
• Wed 24: Good Transit Saves American Households $1,575 Per Year 3
• Wed 24: Little-Known Provision in Senate Jobs Bill Could Spark House Resistance 0
• Wed 24: Fun Facts About the Sad State of Parking Policy 13
• Wed 24: Parking Requirements Bringing Indianapolis Down 3
• Wed 24: Today’s Headlines 9
• Tue 23: Want to Foster Walking, Biking and Transit? You Need Good Parking Policy 8
• Tue 23: House Lawmakers Hail Transportation Stimulus — But Add Three Caveats 0
• Tue 23: Instead of Scaling Down Parades, What If We Scaled Back on Police? 9
• Tue 23: Police Shut Down Bike Shop Suspected of Selling Stolen Property 21
• Tue 23: Montana Bicycle Blogger Terrorized by Drunk Driver 3
• Tue 23: Voinovich Secures Dem Promise to Hold a Senate Vote on Transpo in 2010 0
• Tue 23: Today’s Headlines 3
• Mon 22: U.S. DOT Offers Sample Distracted Driving Bill — With a Potential Loophole 0
• Mon 22: The Next New York: How NYC Can Grow as a Walkable City 12
• Mon 22: Twenty-One NYC Reps Back Brodsky’s Student Fare Falsehood 15
• Mon 22: “A Bicycle Is Not a Transportation Device” 9
• Mon 22: This Week: Rapid Buses, Ratner Street Closures, Safer Maspeth 0
• Mon 22: Today’s Headlines 15
• Fri 19: March 5: Come Party With Streetsblog and the Guy Who Started It All 5
• Fri 19: Public Advocate de Blasio Open to Bridge Tolls to Fund Transit 4
• Fri 19: The Next New York: How the Planning Department Sabotages Sustainability 18
• Fri 19: Spreading Falsehoods on Student Fares, Brodsky Takes Page From Giuliani 9
• Fri 19: The Urban Destruction Caused by Parking 5
• Fri 19: Today’s Headlines 8
• Thu 18: NYPD Admits Error in Pedestrian Death, Says Chases Off-Limits 13
• Thu 18: Shaping the Next New York: The Promise of Bloomberg’s Rezonings 7
• Thu 18: Brooklyn CB2 Committee Seeks Better Fort Greene Bike Connections 4
• Thu 18: Rounding Up More TIGER Coverage 4
• Thu 18: Today’s Headlines 4
• Wed 17: Who Lost Out in the Bid for a Piece of TIGER Transportation Stimulus? 3
• Wed 17: Help Expand Livable Streets Coverage — Donate to Streetsblog 8
• Wed 17: Freight Rail, Streetcars Are Tops in U.S. DOT’s TIGER Chase 7
• Wed 17: School Bus Kills Four-Year-Old Boy in Borough Park 7
• Wed 17: Judge’s Decision on NYPD Parade Rules Tinted By Windshield Perspective 40
• Wed 17: Still Looking for That Magic Highway 4
• Wed 17: Today’s Headlines 15
• Tue 16: Moynihan Station Is the First Big TIGER Stimulus Winner 17
• Tue 16: Congestion Pricing Can Help Save Working NYC Families $2,300 Per Year 2
• Tue 16: Streetfilms: Biking to Work With Seattle Mayor Mike McGinn 2
• Tue 16: Health Commish: We Can Make NYC More Walkable and Bikeable 0
• Tue 16: The Economic Potential of Portland’s New Bike Plan 1
• Tue 16: This Week: EDC’s Pinsky Talks Transportation at NYU 0
• Tue 16: Today’s Headlines 24
• Mon 15: Today’s Headlines 11
• Fri 12: Eight Electeds Back Protected Bike Lanes for Manhattan’s West Side 10
• Fri 12: Mayor’s Office: Electric Cars Must Comply With PlaNYC Goal of Fewer Cars 50
• Fri 12: White House Economic Report Touts TIGER, High-Speed Rail, Transit 0
• Fri 12: Streetfilms: Sharrows Point the Safe Way to Bike Across Rail Tracks 3
• Fri 12: The Weekly Carnage 2
• Fri 12: Council Member Lappin Calls for Citywide Street Safety Office 5
• Fri 12: Advocating for Bike and Ped Access in Cleveland, With a Beat 10
• Fri 12: Today’s Headlines 17
• Thu 11: Bloomberg, Sadik-Khan Commit to a World-Class, 21st Century Broadway 30
• Thu 11: Bipartisan Senate Jobs Bill Has Highway Trust Fund Rescue, But No TIGER 1
• Thu 11: High Bridge Restoration Off and Running 3
• Thu 11: Bloomberg: The Transformation of Broadway Is Here to Stay 25
• Thu 11: Healthier Kids — By Design 1
• Thu 11: Today’s Headlines 18
• Wed 10: NYC’s Rent-Stabilized Parking: A Hidden Subsidy to Drive 22
• Wed 10: The Gas Tax Versus a VMT Tax: Is ‘All of the Above’ an Option? 7
• Wed 10: Biz Students See Ripe Market for Bike-Share in NYC 7
• Wed 10: Fort Worth Commits to Radical New Bike Plan 4
• Wed 10: Today’s Headlines 4
• Tue 9: First Lady Launches Childhood Obesity Push With Nod to Biking & Walking 7
• Tue 9: Strict Liability: Civil Law for Civil Streets 9
• Tue 9: New Report Maps a High-Speed Rail Link For Every Major U.S. City 9
• Tue 9: Gov’s Proposed NYC Tax Hike: A Testament to Your Local Pols, New Yorkers 21
• Tue 9: Individuals Can Make a Difference: A View from India 2
• Tue 9: Today’s Headlines 12
• Mon 8: What Should Happen at Myrtle Avenue’s New Plaza? The Public Weighs In 5
• Mon 8: A Vow to ‘Bring Republicans to the Table’ for a New Transport Bill 1
• Mon 8: Mionske: Vulnerable User Laws a First Step Toward True Traffic Justice 5
• Mon 8: Sponsors Sold on Health, Economic Benefits of Minneapolis Bike-Share 11
• Mon 8: The End of the Road for Cul-de-Sacs? 5
• Mon 8: This Week: East Coast Greenway, East Side SBS, and EVs 0
• Mon 8: Today’s Headlines 6
• Fri 5: Times Square Then and Now: A Streetfilms Retrospective 10
• Fri 5: The Weekly Carnage 1
• Fri 5: Study: Fewer Cars on the Street = Healthier Kids 11
• Fri 5: DA Begins Inquiry Into NYPD-Involved Pedestrian Fatality 2
• Fri 5: How Urban Areas Get Stiffed on Transportation Spending 0
• Fri 5: Today’s Headlines 5
• Thu 4: Senate Dems to Call Up Jobs Bill Monday… With Transport Details TBA 0
• Thu 4: With a Chuckle, Daily News Calls for Life-Saving Traffic Tech 4
• Thu 4: Brooklyn Cop Dishes Out Disorderly Conduct Charge to Cyclist Who Ran Red 41
• Thu 4: Funding Transit in St. Louis: Another Crack at a Sales Tax 10
• Thu 4: Today’s Headlines 5
• Wed 3: More Bad News for Transit Funding: Payroll Tax Comes Up Lame Again 8
• Wed 3: Concern for Seniors Runs High at Low Turnout CB 11 Meeting 1
• Wed 3: Slap on the Wrist for Staten Island Pedestrian Killer 9
• Wed 3: White House Pitches $400M for Healthier Neighborhood Food Outlets 3
• Wed 3: Great Public Spaces for Midtown 9
• Wed 3: Getting Our Transportation Priorities Straight 0
• Wed 3: Today’s Headlines 11
• Tue 2: Bus Stops, Not Bike Lanes, the Hot-Button Issue at Manhattan CB 6 10
• Tue 2: Feds Green Light Funding for Better Nostrand Avenue Bus Service 5
• Tue 2: Driver Takes Plea in 1997 Hit-and-Run Death of Kristen Nemec 3
• Tue 2: U.S. DOT Names the Transit Projects Set for Federal Funding 2
• Tue 2: More Conversation About Not-So-Invisible Bicyclists 12
• Tue 2: Today’s Headlines 15
• Mon 1: Car-Sharing Instead of More Parking? LES Co-op Says: “Fantastic” 13
• Mon 1: Infrastructure Bigs: To Compete, NYC Needs Congestion Pricing, Tolls 12
• Mon 1: White House Budget Includes $530M for Local Sustainability, $1B for HSR 0
• Mon 1: NYPD Denies Role in Another Pedestrian Death. Kelly, Bloomberg Silent 16
• Mon 1: Brad Lander: Bring on the Prospect Park West Bike Lane 2
• Mon 1: Comfortable Drivers and Talking Crosswalks 13
• Mon 1: This Week: East Side BRT, Foodie Cycling, Memorial Ride 0
• Mon 1: Today’s Headlines 10