Streetsblog New York City

Streetsblog New York City stories from November 2010

• Tue 30: Rahall Responds, Says His Transpo Record Is About More Than Just Highways 0
• Tue 30: 1,100 Space Parking Lot at Issue in Latest Atlantic Yards Fight 24
• Tue 30: New East River Ferry Service to Launch in May 13
• Tue 30: Earmark Ban Goes Down to Defeat in the Senate 0
• Tue 30: The Final Push to Preserve an Important Benefit for Transit Riders 0
• Tue 30: Today’s Headlines 3
• Mon 29: Theft and Vandalism Just Not a Problem For American Bike-Sharing 10
• Mon 29: Another Day, Another Revelation That a Gas Tax Hike Is Necessary 0
• Mon 29: This Week: Biking Behavior, Road Pricing, and the Waterfront 1
• Mon 29: Multi-Family Developers: Easy Targets, Unintended Consequences 0
• Mon 29: Today’s Headlines 19
• Wed 24: Thankful for Streetsblog? Give to Streetsblog 0
• Wed 24: With Truck Mirror Law, Albany Can Save Children’s Lives Next Week 1
• Wed 24: The Florida State DOT vs. Livability 0
• Wed 24: Today’s Headlines 14
• Tue 23: Some Hints of What to Expect From NYC Bike-Sharing 19
• Tue 23: Busway Opponents Pump Up the Volume at CB 5 Meeting on 34th Street 23
• Tue 23: Livability and the GOP: A Conversation With HUD’s Mariia Zimmerman 0
• Tue 23: Good Gov Groups, Transit Advocates Call on Cuomo to Stop MTA Raids 3
• Tue 23: Speeding Cams Effective and Popular, But No Sure Thing in Albany 4
• Tue 23: A Former Traffic Engineer on the Industry’s Perverse Standards 0
• Tue 23: NYC DOT Seeking 10,000-Bike System From Bike-Share Providers 42
• Tue 23: Today’s Headlines 4
• Mon 22: City to Pursue “Large-Scale” Bike-Share for the Big Apple 21
• Mon 22: Kavanagh and Squadron Kick Off Bus Lane Camera Enforcement 4
• Mon 22: Bike Lane Cranks Get Star Turn in Times Bicycling Feature 19
• Mon 22: Vacca Endorses Life-Saving 20 MPH Speed Limit 10
• Mon 22: Slow Down Traffic: It’s Doctor’s Orders 2
• Mon 22: Tonight: Speak Up for the 34th Street Transitway 25
• Mon 22: Using Parking Fees to Reduce Street Consumption 0
• Mon 22: Today’s Headlines 24
• Fri 19: GOP Wants to Bring Transpo Policy Back to the 1950s 0
• Fri 19: Eric Adams Talks Speeding and Street Safety on a Neighborhood Walkabout 33
• Fri 19: Eyes on the Street, 83 Years Ago: The Brooklyn Death-O-Meter 11
• Fri 19: Garage to Condo: The Case for Convertible Parking Space 0
• Fri 19: Video: A View of NYC Cycling From Montreal 9
• Fri 19: Today’s Headlines 3
• Thu 18: Ravitch: Tolls on Every Major Road Needed, Just to Keep Transpo Afloat 10
• Thu 18: Bachmann: It’s Not an Earmark If It’s for Highways and Bridges 0
• Thu 18: East Side SBS Shaving 15 Minutes Off M15 Trips; Bus Cams Go Live Monday 7
• Thu 18: Dutch Planners School U.S. Cities on Bikeability 0
• Thu 18: Cyclists Blindsided By City’s Erasure of Father Capodanno Bike Lane 22
• Thu 18: Cuomo on MTA Raids: Transit Funds Are “Fungible” 12
• Thu 18: Is This Battery-Powered Subcompact the Future of Car Sharing? 0
• Thu 18: Today’s Headlines 11
• Wed 17: Cities Learn From Chicago Parking Meter Debacle. Did Goldsmith? 10
• Wed 17: Seatbelts and Tickets Alone Won’t Cure America’s Traffic Death Epidemic 0
• Wed 17: Report: Letting Transit Tax Benefit Expire Will Throw Riders From the Train 10
• Wed 17: Fourth Graders Start Spreading the News: Stop Speeding Today 5
• Wed 17: Two Pedestrians Killed in 12 Hours 7
• Wed 17: European Carmakers Get Into the Bicycle Business 0
• Wed 17: Forget High-Speed Rail, Let’s Get High-Speed Buses 0
• Wed 17: Today’s Headlines 39
• Tue 16: Industry and Insiders Dominate Cuomo’s Transpo Transition Team 21
• Tue 16: Oberstar’s Final Words of Wisdom 0
• Tue 16: Still No Guarantee That East Side Bike Lanes Will Be Completed Next Year 6
• Tue 16: Did City Planning Approve 430 Extra Parking Spaces at Riverside Center? 3
• Tue 16: How Pedestrian! The Walking Movement Flexes Its Muscle 0
• Tue 16: Shocker: Returning $3B to Feds Won’t Cure Ailing NJ Transpo Budget 0
• Tue 16: Tonight’s the Night for Streetfilms: A Reel Celebration 0
• Tue 16: Today’s Headlines 7
• Mon 15: Police, Prosecutors Continue to Let Curb-Jumping Motorists Off the Hook 19
• Mon 15: Auto Industry Celebrates a Republican House It Helped Put In Power 0
• Mon 15: This Week: Stop Speeding 2
• Mon 15: Retrofitting the Suburban Strip 0
• Mon 15: In Memoriam: Ted Kheel, Transit Advocate and Visionary 10
• Mon 15: Today’s Headlines 9
• Fri 12: Eyes on the Street: A Bike-Friendly Approach to the Q’Boro 18
• Fri 12: Christie Rewrites ARC History: My Wife Made Me Do It 19
• Fri 12: Parking May Be Part of PlaNYC Update, Tweets Goldsmith 24
• Fri 12: Is Cuomo’s Spending Cap the Real Threat to Transit Funding? 5
• Fri 12: “As Efficient as a U-Haul” — One Family’s Story of Moving By Bike 0
• Fri 12: Our Stagnant Gas Tax Rate Is Making the Deficit Worse 0
• Fri 12: Today’s Headlines 5
• Thu 11: If Climate Experts Wrote New York Transportation Policy… 20
• Thu 11: Help Us Build a Better Blog: Take the Streetsblog Reader Survey 0
• Thu 11: CB 7 May Form Task Force to Work Out Columbus Ave Delivery Kinks 16
• Thu 11: The Power of the Pursestrings Shifts to a Livability Denier in the House 0
• Thu 11: MTA Touts Bus Lane Cameras in PR Blitz 5
• Thu 11: U.S. Trade Deficit Joined at the Hip to U.S. Oil Dependence 0
• Thu 11: Today’s Headlines 6
• Wed 10: Could a Coal-n-Highways Dem Take Oberstar’s Place on Transpo Committee? 0
• Wed 10: Fight for Completed East Side Bike Lanes Comes to City Hall Steps 13
• Wed 10: Last Chance! Get Your Tickets for Streetfilms: A Reel Celebration 7
• Wed 10: Cuomo Wants Budget Fix ASAP, So Another MTA Raid May Be Coming Soon 2
• Wed 10: Driven to the Poorhouse: How Car Title Lenders Prey on Americans 0
• Wed 10: A Promising Start for Minneapolis Bike-Sharing 0
• Wed 10: Bloomberg Opens Up More Crime Data, So Why Not Traffic Safety Info Too? 3
• Wed 10: Today’s Headlines 9
• Tue 9: Post Reader to Cuozzo: Why Not Acknowledge That Streets Are Getting Safer? 8
• Tue 9: Merchant Ire Over Deliveries, Placards Dominates UWS Bike Lane Meeting 45
• Tue 9: Can Andrew Cuomo Stop Albany From Raiding Transit Again? 4
• Tue 9: How Indianapolis Could Raise the Bar for Midwest Transit Investment 0
• Tue 9: Just How Lame Will This Lame Duck Be? 0
• Tue 9: Today’s Headlines 7
• Mon 8: If You Ever Want to Maim Someone With Your Car, Get a Job at Morgan Stanley 15
• Mon 8: Portland’s Bike Boulevards Become Neighborhood Greenways 0
• Mon 8: Obama Still Believes in a Bipartisan Push for Infrastructure. Do You? 0
• Mon 8: Gale Brewer Pessimistic About Further Riverside Center Parking Reductions 1
• Mon 8: Vacca and Advocates to Albany: No More Transit Raids 3
• Mon 8: This Week: Completing Safer Streets for the East and West Sides 1
• Mon 8: Estranged Bedfellows: Trains and Conservatism 0
• Mon 8: Today’s Headlines 23
• Fri 5: Monday’s Your Chance to Defend the Columbus Ave Bike Lane 5
• Fri 5: Marcia Kramer Exposes the Threat of Pedestrian Refuges [Updated] 41
• Fri 5: CB 12 Squabbling Delays Upper Manhattan Bike Lane Discussion 7
• Fri 5: An Open Letter to Ohio Governor-Elect John Kasich 0
• Fri 5: Give Your Line Some Love: Enter GOOD Magazine’s Best Bus Route Contest 0
• Fri 5: After NYPD Kills Bill, Council Pushes for Traffic Safety Data From DOT 2
• Fri 5: Young People on Car Ownership: Meh 0
• Fri 5: Today’s Headlines 13
• Thu 4: NYC Restaurants in Search of Foot Traffic Can Apply to DOT 8
• Thu 4: When Is NYC Law Enforcement Going to Use Hayley and Diego’s Law? 13
• Thu 4: Eliminate Waste or Kill Good Projects? Earmark Ban Could Cut Both Ways 0
• Thu 4: Streetsblog Pledge Drive Update: Keep Up the Momentum 0
• Thu 4: Columbus Developers: Transit Riders Are Bad for Business 0
• Thu 4: Today’s Headlines 19
• Wed 3: Oberstar Says Goodbye, Mica Promises Rail and a Long-Term Bill 0
• Wed 3: Heads Up: Columbus Ave Bike Lane Discussion Not Happening Tonight 0
• Wed 3: The Silver Lining: 73 Percent of Transpo Ballot Measures Win 0
• Wed 3: Gene Russianoff on What to Look for From Governor-Elect Andrew Cuomo 3
• Wed 3: City Planning Okays 1,260 Parking Spaces for Riverside Center 1
• Wed 3: Fred Barnes: Americans Mainly Want to Stay in Their Cars 35
• Wed 3: The Fiscal Argument for Transportation Reform 0
• Wed 3: Election Results: GOP Govs Win Big, Dems Take California, Oberstar Ousted 0
• Wed 3: Today’s Headlines 11
• Tue 2: Defend the Columbus Avenue Bike Lane [Updated] 4
• Tue 2: Will Georgia’s Next Governor ‘Unclog Atlanta’? 0
• Tue 2: Cuomo’s Green Agenda Comes Out Swinging for Smart Growth 1
• Tue 2: Illegal Parking in Brooklyn Heights: Scenes From the Placard Orgy 52
• Tue 2: Election Day Finds Two Livability Champions on the Ropes 0
• Tue 2: Election Day Open Thread 19
• Tue 2: In Austin and Around the Nation: Big Stakes for Green Transportation 0
• Tue 2: Will Florida’s Next Governor Sink the State’s Chances for Rail? 0
• Tue 2: Today’s Headlines 6
• Mon 1: Suburban State Senate Candidates Campaign Against MTA Payroll Tax 8
• Mon 1: Revisiting Donald Appleyard’s “Livable Streets” 0
• Mon 1: State DOT Delays Funding for NYC Bike-Ped Projects [Updated] 0
• Mon 1: Bike-Ped Funding Dips as Stimulus Spending Slows 0
• Mon 1: Driver Hits And Kills 13-Year-Old Crossing Street in Front of High School 35
• Mon 1: This Week: Vote! 0
• Mon 1: Could Restructuring the Gas Tax Fund the Transportation Bill? 0
• Mon 1: Today’s Headlines 6