Streetsblog New York City

Streetsblog New York City stories from October 2010

• Fri 29: Streetfilms Shorties: Celebrating the Columbus Avenue Bike Lane 10
• Fri 29: Anti-Rail Candidates Take Aim at High Speed Dreams in the Midwest 0
• Fri 29: See Where New York’s House Candidates Stand on Transportation 2
• Fri 29: GOP Victory Could Imperil Bike-Ped Funding and Transportation Reforms 0
• Fri 29: Roosevelt Island Parking Sensors Will Point the Way to Smart Parking 9
• Fri 29: Separating Cyclists From Air Pollution 0
• Fri 29: Last Chance to Tell Lander and Levin How You Feel About the New PPW 4
• Fri 29: Today’s Headlines 31
• Thu 28: Support Streetfilms: Come to Our Fall Fundraiser on November 16 0
• Thu 28: Video: Rider Rebellion and Reverend Al Tell Albany to Stand Up for Transit 2
• Thu 28: Working Families Party, Greens Make Their Case to NYC Transit Riders 8
• Thu 28: The Search for GOP Partners on Transit: Streetsblog Q&A With Glen Bottoms 0
• Thu 28: Former Deputy Mayor Under Dinkins Lobbies City Hall to Kill PPW Bike Lane 64
• Thu 28: Becoming a YIMBY for Livable Communities 0
• Thu 28: T4America Maps TIGER Grantees: Find One Near You 0
• Thu 28: Today’s Headlines 17
• Wed 27: This Afternoon at Union Square: Join the Rider Rebellion 4
• Wed 27: Bronx Residents Demand a Greater, Greener, Fairer PlaNYC 6
• Wed 27: We’re Counting on You: Raise $50K for Streetsblog in Our First Pledge Drive 18
• Wed 27: Texas Gov Rick Perry Could Get Four More Years to Build Mega-Highways 0
• Wed 27: Cycling Tips From a Bike-Commuting Bus Driver 0
• Wed 27: Picture This: ARC Money + Congestion Pricing = No More NYC Transit Cuts 14
• Wed 27: Today’s Headlines 9
• Tue 26: Zero Parking Means More Affordable Housing for Fort Greene 21
• Tue 26: Will Bike-Phobic Dan Maes Cost the Colorado GOP Major Party Status? 0
• Tue 26: Eyes on the Street: Working Out the Kinks in the Columbus Ave Bike Lane 44
• Tue 26: Applications for Special Parking Permits Keep Rolling in to City Planning 7
• Tue 26: How One Arizona Town Is Encouraging People to Get High and Drive 0
• Tue 26: Today’s Headlines 14
• Mon 25: Does the Working Families Party Deserve the NYC Transit Rider Vote? 14
• Mon 25: Light Rail Line Hangs By a Thread as Maryland Goes to the Polls 0
• Mon 25: This Week: The Rider Rebellion Rallies for Transit 0
• Mon 25: Avoiding the Unintended Consequences of Transit-Oriented Development 0
• Mon 25: City Planning Ready to Approve 1,260 Parking Spaces at Riverside Center 6
• Mon 25: The Case Against Linking Bike Safety Improvements to Cyclists’ Behavior 0
• Mon 25: Voices From the Rail~Volution 0
• Mon 25: Today’s Headlines 5
• Fri 22: The World’s First “Transit Appliance” 0
• Fri 22: CB 6 Committee Gives Thumbs Up to Park Smart Expansion in Park Slope 3
• Fri 22: Marty’s Message: If You Disagree With Marty, You Don’t Count 66
• Fri 22: Andrew Cuomo’s Transit Plan: Worse Than Nothing? 5
• Fri 22: Why Transit Agencies Expand Capacity While They Cut Service 0
• Fri 22: Results of the New PPW: Speeding Down Dramatically, Cycling Up Big 14
• Fri 22: The Shrinking American House: Sign of a Cultural Shift? 0
• Fri 22: Today’s Headlines — PPW Rally Edition 54
• Thu 21: MAS Survey: New York City Is Livable But Not Everyone Benefits Equally 3
• Thu 21: DOT Launches Speed Limit PSAs; NYPD to Target Speeding, Failure-to-Yield 12
• Thu 21: Limbaugh: Distracted Driving Regs a Slippery Slope to Totalitarian Rule 0
• Thu 21: Marty’s Message 8
• Thu 21: Real-Time Bike-Share Maps Show America’s Got Some Catching Up to Do 8
• Thu 21: If You Come, They Will Build It: Notes on Livability From Rail~volution 0
• Thu 21: Hundreds Rally in Support of Prospect Park West Bike Lane 78
• Thu 21: Today’s Headlines 19
• Wed 20: The Other Livable Streets Showdown in Park Slope Tomorrow 3
• Wed 20: Records From Critical Mass Court Case Spell Out NYPD Overkill 2
• Wed 20: Who Buys Which Type of MetroCard? 11
• Wed 20: U.S. DOT Unveils Full List of TIGER II Winners 0
• Wed 20: In Detroit, a Long-Overdue Push to Create a Cohesive Transit System 0
• Wed 20: Three Myths From Marty About the PPW Bike Lane 54
• Wed 20: Today’s Headlines 10
• Tue 19: How to Slay a Highway: Notes on the Mt. Hood Freeway and Harbor Drive 0
• Tue 19: Christie Threatening to Kill ARC For Good on Friday 9
• Tue 19: At Riverside Park, Looking to More Bike Lanes to Soothe Bike/Ped Conflict 18
• Tue 19: Last Night’s Gov Debate: Cuomo Piles on in MTA Bash-a-Thon 10
• Tue 19: Fighting Freeways: War Stories From Portland 0
• Tue 19: Shoup: Tax Code Makes Employer-Paid Parking Tough to Resist 3
• Tue 19: How Walkable Are the Streets Near Your Transit Stop? 0
• Tue 19: Today’s Headlines 29
• Mon 18: What Should NYC’s Sustainability Plan Tackle Next? Vote Today 14
• Mon 18: This Week: Defend the Prospect Park West Bike Lane 4
• Mon 18: Mapping Your NYC Bike Commute 0
• Mon 18: How Would You Define Transit-Oriented Development? 0
• Mon 18: Anyone Park Your Bike on Vanderbilt Ave This Weekend? 9
• Mon 18: Today’s Headlines 10
• Fri 15: TIGER II Funds Sheridan Replacement Study, Fordham Redesign 5
• Fri 15: TIGER II Leaks Begin: New Haven’s Highway-to-Boulevard Project a Winner 0
• Fri 15: Track 34th Street Buses From Your Computer or Phone 3
• Fri 15: Nadler Revives Fight Against Trucker Giveaway on Verrazano 21
• Fri 15: The Fitness Gap: Americans Walk Far Less Than People in Other Countries 0
• Fri 15: HUD Announces Winners of $100M in Sustainability Grants 0
• Fri 15: Today’s Headlines 17
• Thu 14: Take the PPW Bike Lane Survey 8
• Thu 14: Kavanagh and Squadron Usher Hayley and Diego’s Law Into Effect 1
• Thu 14: Angela Glover Blackwell on Equity, Infrastructure, and the President 0
• Thu 14: Next Thursday: A Neighborly Rally for the Traffic-Calming PPW Bike Lane 62
• Thu 14: Select Bus Service Debuts on Manhattan’s East Side 0
• Thu 14: Which Cities Are Making the Quickest Shift Away From Cars? 0
• Thu 14: District Attorneys Can Start Enforcing Hayley and Diego’s Law Today 2
• Thu 14: Today’s Headlines 7
• Wed 13: Crain’s Asks: Should Manhattan Give Up on Bike Lanes? 8
• Wed 13: Shoup: NPR Puts a Price on Parking. Why Not Cato? 30
• Wed 13: Eyes on the Street: NYPD Sanctions Bike Lane Blocking on Henry Street 38
• Wed 13: Pratt Center Maps the Urgent Need for Better Transit in Low-Income Areas 7
• Wed 13: Five Reasons Reformers Are Rallying Behind Obama’s Transpo Push 0
• Wed 13: Sounding the Alarm on Bike-Ped Deaths and Injuries in D.C. 0
• Wed 13: 50 DOT Fleet Vehicles Replaced By 25 Zipcars 17
• Wed 13: Today’s Headlines 5
• Tue 12: CicLAvia, Let’s Go! 0
• Tue 12: Electric Car Fever and Polar Bear Halos 0
• Tue 12: Riding the East Side SBS With Assembly Member Jonathan Bing 5
• Tue 12: Drivers Kill Four Pedestrians in Six Days, Two Flee Scene 9
• Tue 12: The Pay Toilet: Coming Soon to a Street Corner Near You? 0
• Tue 12: Eyes on the Street: Motorist Wrecks Brooklyn Monument to Slain Veterans 9
• Tue 12: Today’s Headlines 14
• Mon 11: Drawing Ideas From Reformers, Obama Gets Behind 6-Year Transpo Plan 0
• Mon 11: This Week: Waterfront Plans, Ped Plazas, and a Safer Queens Blvd 0
• Mon 11: Select Bus Service Debuts on Manhattan’s Busiest Bus Route 15
• Mon 11: Today’s Headlines 25
• Fri 8: Cities Are Doin’ It for Themselves 11
• Fri 8: Ray LaHood, Chris Christie Extend ARC Talks 21
• Fri 8: Frontrunner for Tenn. Gov Gets Bike Award — But Look Behind the Curtain 0
• Fri 8: Stringer Calls for NYPD, TLC to Protect the Integrity of Bike Lanes 11
• Fri 8: DOT Puts Big Changes on the Table for 181st Street 16
• Fri 8: A National Infrastructure Bank: Can the U.S. Learn From Europe? 0
• Fri 8: In Death of ARC Tunnel, Political Grandstanding Trumps Governing 0
• Fri 8: ARC Post-Mortem: Chris Christie Afraid to Bite the Bullet 13
• Fri 8: Today’s Headlines 24
• Thu 7: Carl Paladino’s Crusade for Free Driving 14
• Thu 7: How the Information Age Can Make Streets and Transit More Efficient Comments Off
• Thu 7: Fare Hike 2011: It’s Official 20
• Thu 7: If the Streets Get Safer, Southern Brooklyn Residents Will Ride 9
• Thu 7: Mourning the Potential Loss of Bus Service on Long Island 0
• Thu 7: Today’s Headlines 16
• Wed 6: Take a Look at Eric Adams’ Bike Safety Bill (and a German Driving Test) 14
• Wed 6: Going Car-Free? It’s On Us, Says Hoboken 11
• Wed 6: High-Speed Rail vs. Low-Cost Bus 0
• Wed 6: CB 11 Committee Approves Safety Fixes for Harlem River Park Access 5
• Wed 6: If Republicans Take the House, What Happens to Transportation Reform? 0
• Wed 6: Questioning Obama’s Transpo Legacy as Fresno County Sprawls 0
• Wed 6: Today’s Headlines 8
• Tue 5: Chris Christie Expected to Kill ARC Transit Tunnel 50
• Tue 5: Albany Grabs Another $16.7 Million From MTA 22
• Tue 5: Waiting for Raymond: New Yorkers Want Zero Tolerance for Speeding 13
• Tue 5: Capital Bikeshare Winning Hearts, But How Will It Change the Streets? 0
• Tue 5: Today’s Headlines 13
• Mon 4: Introducing Tanya Snyder, Streetsblog’s New National Reporter 0
• Mon 4: NYC Achieves Greenhouse Gas Reductions, But Not With Transportation 11
• Mon 4: This Week: Help Improve Driver Education on Cycling 0
• Mon 4: FTA: Transit Maintenance — Not Just Expansion — Will Grow Ridership 0
• Mon 4: A Car-Free Street Grows in Queens 0
• Mon 4: Given a Choice, NJ and PA Sacrifice Bike-Ped Funding 0
• Mon 4: Today’s Headlines 10
• Fri 1: Cuomo’s Econ Plan Whispers Sweet Transportation Nothings 17
• Fri 1: State DOTs Make Deeper Bike-Ped Budget Cuts Than Expected 0
• Fri 1: Did NYC Bike Commuting Decrease in 2009? That’s What The Census Says 25
• Fri 1: Bike Boxes Stoke Motorist Resentment in Seattle 0
• Fri 1: Today’s Headlines 9