Streetsblog New York City

Streetsblog New York City stories from May 2010

• Fri 28: NYC’s First Bike-to-School-Day Celebration 0
• Fri 28: New York State Withholding a Fortune in Transit Taxes From MTA 19
• Fri 28: Jackson Heights Groups Unveil Bottom-Up Plan for Green Neighborhood 2
• Fri 28: The Weekly Carnage 2
• Fri 28: Walking Away From Oil Dependence, One Day at a Time 0
• Fri 28: Today’s Headlines 13
• Thu 27: Manhattan DA Cy Vance Unveils Strategy to Expand Traffic Safety Resources 7
• Thu 27: New York Drivers Among the Most Ignorant of Traffic Laws 26
• Thu 27: Boston Rising: Nicole Freedman and the Emergence of a Bike-Friendly City 0
• Thu 27: When Stop Signs Stop Working 0
• Thu 27: Today’s Headlines 7
• Wed 26: Albany Running Out of Time to Give NYC Bus Riders Faster Service 2
• Wed 26: If Bus Stops Disappear, What Will Happen to All That Space? 7
• Wed 26: New Report Examines the Media’s Role in the Gas Tax Debate 0
• Wed 26: South Bronx Greenway Construction Gets Underway This Summer 19
• Wed 26: Bike Infrastructure Where You Live 0
• Wed 26: Today’s Headlines 8
• Tue 25: Federal Transit Aid Bill Could Prevent MTA Service Cuts 0
• Tue 25: Eight Senate Dems Offer $2B Plan for Emergency Transit Operating Aid 0
• Tue 25: How Portland Sold Its Banks on Walkable Development 7
• Tue 25: At First Riverside Center Hearing, Planning Commission Quiet on Parking 0
• Tue 25: The Transit Hierarchy of Needs 0
• Tue 25: Today’s Headlines 0
• Mon 24: Cycle Chic in Copenhagen and Beyond 0
• Mon 24: Feds to Start Scoring Transportation Potential of Housing Grant Applicants 0
• Mon 24: Jackson Heights Neighbors Band Together to Win Car-Free Street Expansion 11
• Mon 24: Major Test for Parking Reform Shaping Up on Manhattan’s West Side 18
• Mon 24: Why Drag Two Tons of Car With You Wherever You Go? 0
• Mon 24: Bike Month, Village Streetcars, Taming Broadway in Billyburg 0
• Mon 24: Today’s Headlines 9
• Fri 21: Bike to Work Day Finale: Why the Bronx Commutes By Bike 3
• Fri 21: On Bike to Work Day, U.S. DOT and Cycling Advocates Eye New Moves 0
• Fri 21: Pair of DOT Projects Promise Safer Walking and Biking in South Bronx Nabes 17
• Fri 21: The Weekly Carnage 1
• Fri 21: Four House Republicans Join Dems in Hailing LaHood’s Support for Bike-Ped 0
• Fri 21: D.C. Rings in Bike to Work Day With Big Bike-Sharing Announcement 9
• Fri 21: New Urbanist Silverback Andres Duany and the Young Locusts 0
• Fri 21: Bike to Work Day Open Thread 25
• Fri 21: Today’s Headlines 2
• Thu 20: Bike to Work Day Preview: Council Member Jimmy Van Bramer Rides Again 2
• Thu 20: Five Months On, Bike Access to Buildings Law Showing Results 9
• Thu 20: APHA Tallies ‘Hidden Health Costs’ of Transportation Status Quo 0
• Thu 20: First Look: Detour No More on the Hudson River Greenway 31
• Thu 20: Witness Accounts Wanted in Union Square Cyclist Crash 4
• Thu 20: Report: Traffic Threatens Older Pedestrians Most of All 8
• Thu 20: Eyes on the Street: Cabs Collide on Central Park’s West Drive 6
• Thu 20: The Active Transportation Scene in Sioux Falls 0
• Thu 20: Today’s Headlines 4
• Wed 19: Brooklyn CB 2 Committee Approves New Plan for Flushing Avenue Bikeway 22
• Wed 19: Will Robert Lieber’s Successor Finally Fill the Gaps in PlaNYC 2030? 4
• Wed 19: Transit Industry and State DOTs Agree: Senate Climate Bill Needs ‘Rewrite’ 0
• Wed 19: Bill to Protect Pedestrians and Cyclists Clears Committee Votes in Assembly 3
• Wed 19: Seeking the Next Interstate System, This Time Without Asphalt 0
• Wed 19: Today’s Headlines 9
• Tue 18: Cartoon Tuesday: Little Green Man and the Lizard Squeezins 6
• Tue 18: Transit Industry to Join State DOTs in Blasting Senate Climate Bill 0
• Tue 18: Tonight: Turn Out to Support Safer Biking and Walking on Flushing Ave 3
• Tue 18: City Council Moves on Environmental Health, But What About Tailpipes? 16
• Tue 18: Transforming Pavement to Parks in San Francisco 0
• Tue 18: Cyclist, Pedestrian Injured in Two East Side Crashes 2
• Tue 18: Brooklyn CB 15 Asks Whether Safer Streets Are Worth 100,000 Sneezes 13
• Tue 18: Consequences for Banana-Throwers, and the Case for Human Decency 0
• Tue 18: Today’s Headlines 9
• Mon 17: State DOTs’ Prescription for American Cities: More Highways 17
• Mon 17: Behind the Transport Industry’s Lament About the Senate Climate Bill 0
• Mon 17: Rage-Free Rush Hour in Utrecht 19
• Mon 17: Eyes on the Street: Park Slope Pedestrian Struck by Ambulance 25
• Mon 17: The Potential for Private Investment in Transit 0
• Mon 17: This Week: Better Bus Service for the B44, Bike to Work Day 0
• Mon 17: Today’s Headlines 16
• Fri 14: It’s Car Free Streets Season in NYC 3
• Fri 14: Driver Who Killed Cyclist Jake McDonaugh Pleads Not Guilty to Homicide 3
• Fri 14: Al Roker Bikes to Victory in 2010 Commuter Race 14
• Fri 14: The Weekly Carnage 6
• Fri 14: Eyes on the Street: Livery Car Jumps Sidewalk, Injuring Elderly Woman 9
• Fri 14: Columbus Avenue BID Leader: Protected Bike Lane Great for Business 7
• Fri 14: To Succeed, Cities Need to Be Themselves 0
• Fri 14: Today’s Headlines 30
• Thu 13: Biking Around NYC With Randy “The Ethicist” Cohen 0
• Thu 13: Specter of Gas Tax Lingers as Rendell, Villaraigosa Push Infrastructure Bank 0
• Thu 13: CB 6 Votes Conditionally for East Side SBS, Endorses Better Bike Lanes 10
• Thu 13: Fixing the Ditch: Planning a Less Awful BQE Trench 21
• Thu 13: The Road to the Future Is Not a Drive-Thru 0
• Thu 13: Today’s Headlines 12
• Wed 12: Bike Infrastructure Where You Live 0
• Wed 12: Senate Climate Bill Would Send $6B-Plus to Cleaner Transportation 0
• Wed 12: CB 7 Committee Backslides With Split Vote on Protected UWS Bike Lane 20
• Wed 12: NYCDOT Opens the Way for Killer Bike Apps 11
• Wed 12: Maine DOT Leaves Portland Pedestrians Stranded 0
• Wed 12: Today’s Headlines 11
• Tue 11: Will the Fare Hike Four Face Pro-Transit Primary Challengers? 2
• Tue 11: First Lady’s Childhood Obesity Task Force Calls For Transportation Reform 0
• Tue 11: Campaigns for Smart Growth and Complete Streets Heat Up in Albany 0
• Tue 11: The Great Bicyclist Responsibility Debate Continues 0
• Tue 11: Today’s Headlines 2
• Mon 10: Is There Such a Thing as NYC Bike Culture? 27
• Mon 10: Shock or Yawn? Virginia’s GOP Governor Backs Highway User Fees 0
• Mon 10: Signs of Street Life in Sprawlanta? 3
• Mon 10: Transit Check: Most New Yorkers Take Green Modes to Work 3
• Mon 10: Vancouver Gives Cyclists a Lane on the Burrard Bridge 0
• Mon 10: L.A.’s Freedom Ride: Black Kids on Bikes 0
• Mon 10: Brookings Report: “Bright Flight” Transforming Cities and Suburbs 0
• Mon 10: This Week: UWS Cycle Tracks, High Bridge Rehab, Bike Month 1
• Mon 10: Today’s Headlines 10
• Fri 7: Picturing a Car-Free Seine: The New Vision for the Paris Waterfront 12
• Fri 7: Getting to Know Stephen Goldsmith, NYC’s New Deputy Mayor 2
• Fri 7: The Weekly Carnage 1
• Fri 7: The Public Square After Times Square 14
• Fri 7: Brooklyn Paper on PPW: Double-Parking Takes Precedence Over Safety 18
• Fri 7: Should Transit Systems Charge More During Peak Hours? 0
• Fri 7: Today’s Headlines 8
• Thu 6: Walder: MTA Commitment to Open Transit Data Is For Real 8
• Thu 6: Centers for Disease Control: Transportation Reform Is Health Reform 0
• Thu 6: John Leguizamo’s Green Limo 20
• Thu 6: Advocates: New Parking Requirements Make Housing More Expensive 9
• Thu 6: Biking in NYC Is Up… But How Much? 13
• Thu 6: The Fine Art of Balancing a Street’s Ecosystem 0
• Thu 6: Today’s Headlines 6
• Wed 5: Cyclist Injuries Continue to Fall, Even as More New Yorkers Ride 7
• Wed 5: Talking Transit With City Council Transportation Chair Jimmy Vacca 2
• Wed 5: Schaller: Road Pricing Won’t Fly Without Driver Support 14
• Wed 5: City Planning Promotes Car-Sharing, But Will It Reduce Driving? 13
• Wed 5: Expectations for High-Speed Rail Coming Down to Earth 0
• Wed 5: Pennsylvania Avenue Bike Lanes Provide Media Platform for Local AAA 0
• Wed 5: Today’s Headlines 2
• Tue 4: Dysfunction Rules at CB 6 Discussion of Select Bus Service 11
• Tue 4: Parking Placards: The Public Safety Risk 9
• Tue 4: Q&A With City Council Transportation Chair Jimmy Vacca 6
• Tue 4: In New Orleans, You Should Follow the River 0
• Tue 4: Today’s Headlines 31
• Mon 3: Kruger Challenger Igor Oberman Campaigns on Support for Transit 11
• Mon 3: Keep Drilling, Stop Driving, Use Oil Wisely 0
• Mon 3: Major Bike Mojo in Minneapolis 0
• Mon 3: Google to Host “Unconference” for MTA App Developers 0
• Mon 3: Massachusetts Republican Cuts a Bike Version of Scott Brown ‘Truck’ Ad 0
• Mon 3: This Week: Busways, Transit Apps, Bike Culture 0
• Mon 3: Helping Pittsburghers Kick Their Car Habit 0
• Mon 3: Today’s Headlines 4