Streetsblog New York City

Streetsblog New York City stories from February 2011

• Mon 28: Crazed Driver Plows Through Critical Mass in Brazil 0
• Mon 28: AASHTO: Government Shutdown Could Cost Transportation Sector $100M/Day 0
• Mon 28: Name-Calling Trumps Facts in the Post’s Attacks on 34th Street Transitway 14
• Mon 28: Construction Begins on Permanent Pike Street Redesign 9
• Mon 28: This Week: Meet UWS Police, Brainstorm Better Transpo Tech 0
• Mon 28: Condos, Parking Lots, and Transit: D.C.’s Transportation Crossroads 0
• Mon 28: Today’s Headlines 50
• Fri 25: NYC Asks Banks For Ideas on Parking Privatization 15
• Fri 25: The Weekly Carnage 2
• Fri 25: Eyes on the Street: Wrong Way 47
• Fri 25: Sprawl Wallops St. Louis With Eight Percent Population Loss 0
• Fri 25: Gibson Dunn Attorney Jim Walden: Blog Comment “Potentially Libelous” 97
• Fri 25: Antonio Villaraigosa Rebrands L.A.’s Transit Plan as a National Option 0
• Fri 25: Today’s Headlines 24
• Thu 24: In Anti-Bike Lane Case, Gibson Dunn Strays From Pro Bono Standards 36
• Thu 24: Parking Requirements Force Affordable Housing Project to Shrink 9
• Thu 24: The Economist: Rock-Bottom U.S. Gas Tax Makes Gas Cheaper Than Water 0
• Thu 24: Rochester Residents, Left Out of Transpo Bill Hearing, Create Their Own 0
• Thu 24: Today’s Headlines 7
• Wed 23: What Does the Future Hold for New York’s Transit Infrastructure? 16
• Wed 23: Road Interests Crowd Transpo Bill Panels in Indiana and Chicago 0
• Wed 23: To Stay Connected to Jobs, New Yorkers Need Better Bus Service 13
• Wed 23: Highways Take Center Stage at Columbus Transpo Field Hearing 0
• Wed 23: Wisconsin Gov Scott Walker: Let Them Drive Cars 0
• Wed 23: Steve Cuozzo Hides the Truth: Midtown Biz Leaders Support Street Redesigns 8
• Wed 23: Today’s Headlines 8
• Tue 22: How Hard Will the Senate Fight Back Against House Spending Cuts? 0
• Tue 22: Senior Philly Planner, Unlike NYC Peers, Says Parking Minimums Matter 11
• Tue 22: Moving Beyond the Automobile: Bicycling 0
• Tue 22: Schumer-Linked Group Wrongly Assumes That Council Backs Bike Lane Delay 14
• Tue 22: This Week: Truck Routes and Delivery Zones 0
• Tue 22: Less Is More: Highway Removal Could Make Buffalo a Better City 0
• Tue 22: Today’s Headlines 10
• Mon 21: Today’s Headlines 8
• Fri 18: T.A.’s Online Ticket Tracker Helps Map Bike Crackdown 15
• Fri 18: The Weekly Carnage 2
• Fri 18: Bloomberg Budget Sets Up Round Two of Parking Meter Fight 7
• Fri 18: Bike-Ped Funding Survives 583 Amendments 0
• Fri 18: House Republicans Threaten Critical Transit Expansions Across the Nation 0
• Fri 18: Today’s Headlines 72
• Thu 17: The Case for Bike Racks on NYC Buses 0
• Thu 17: Poll: Voters From All Walks Support Transportation Improvements, Reform 0
• Thu 17: One Winter’s Extra Pothole Costs Exceed Price of Entire DOT Bike Program 17
• Thu 17: WPIX Long Island Reporter Rob Hoell Eats Marcia Kramer’s Lunch 15
• Thu 17: New York Falls Behind Big Northeast Cities on Parking Policy 14
• Thu 17: Florida Gov. Rick Scott Has Some Strange Ideas About Job Creation 0
• Thu 17: Today’s Headlines 10
• Wed 16: City Council Unanimously Passes Bill to Open Street Safety Data 3
• Wed 16: AFL-CIO and Chamber of Commerce Ask For a Gas Tax Hike; Senators Agree 0
• Wed 16: Pedestrians and Cyclists Come First at D.C. Street Safety Hearing 0
• Wed 16: Florida Gov. Rick Scott Chooses Politics Over Constituents, Rejects HSR Funds 0
• Wed 16: Chuck Schumer’s Office Has No Comment on Prospect Park West 16
• Wed 16: Eyes on the Street: Breakfast in the Bike Lane 34
• Wed 16: LaHood: Rail Is the Way Forward 0
• Wed 16: Today’s Headlines 17
• Tue 15: Are Environmental Reviews to Blame for Infrastructure Project Delays? 0
• Tue 15: When Will the Central Park Bike Blitz Be Over? “Ask the Mayor” 25
• Tue 15: Moving Beyond the Automobile: Transit-Oriented Development 0
• Tue 15: Quinn’s Top Transpo Priority in 2011: Convenience For Car Owners 35
• Tue 15: Driver Kills Pedestrian at Delancey and Bowery 5
• Tue 15: Barbara Boxer Commends Obama’s Long-term Transpo Plan 0
• Tue 15: Tonight: Learn All About Tearing Down the Sheridan 6
• Tue 15: Transportation Reformers Applaud Obama’s Six-Year Transpo Plan 0
• Tue 15: Today’s Headlines 15
• Mon 14: Obama Admin’s Bold Transpo Plan Leaves Funding Question to Congress 0
• Mon 14: This Week: Transit Love, Taxis and TOD 0
• Mon 14: City Council Bills to Release Traffic Data Pass Committee Unanimously 3
• Mon 14: DOT Presents Full Menu of Street Improvements for Jackson Heights 0
• Mon 14: Obama Proposes Infra Bank, Livability Grants, Doubling Transit Funds 0
• Mon 14: Have You Seen the Latest Marcia Kramer Segment on Prospect Park West? 66
• Mon 14: Obama Budget Proposes $556B, Long-term Transportation Bill 0
• Mon 14: Backwards Budgeting, City Love, and Dangerous Hybrids 0
• Mon 14: Today’s Headlines 12
• Fri 11: What to Look For in President Obama’s Budget Request on Monday 0
• Fri 11: Tomorrow: DOT Unveils Plan For Better Jackson Heights Streets 0
• Fri 11: Stringer Explains His “Philosophy of Public Engagement” on Street Designs 18
• Fri 11: Parking Minimums Make NYC Housing More Expensive, NYU Report Finds 13
• Fri 11: On Bicycle Coverage and Media Bias 30
• Fri 11: When Will AASHTO Revise Its Policy Against Separated Bike Lanes? 0
• Fri 11: Today’s Headlines 18
• Thu 10: Traffic Safety Group Counters Red Light Cam Propaganda With Brutal Truth 42
• Thu 10: Cyclist Struck at Seventh Avenue and 28th Street 0
• Thu 10: Read All About It: Victims’ Loved Ones Fed Up With Markowitz 3
• Thu 10: Shady Dealings Drive EDC Subsidies for Moisha’s Supermarket Parking Lot 10
• Thu 10: Retired Military Leaders, Corporate CEOs: Driving Alone Aids Terrorists 0
• Thu 10: Victim’s Mother Shames CBS2 for Using Traffic Death to Bolster Carl Kruger 27
• Thu 10: More Cyclists = Safer Cycling in Minneapolis 0
• Thu 10: Today’s Headlines 12
• Wed 9: Trailer: Moving Beyond the Automobile 0
• Wed 9: GOP Moves Ahead With Deep Cuts to Transportation, Housing 0
• Wed 9: East Siders Press Case for Traffic Enforcement to NYPD, Vance 1
• Wed 9: Questions Remain for Hunter’s Point South Transpo Plan 6
• Wed 9: In Charleston, an Affordable, Effective Alternative to Highway Expansion 2
• Wed 9: Stringer Holds Up Columbus Ave Bike Lane Tweaks as Model for Government 3
• Wed 9: CrashStat 3.0 Will Build a Better Danger Map to Empower Safety Activists 4
• Wed 9: New Jersey’s TOD Tax Credit Is Producing Jobs 0
• Wed 9: Today’s Headlines 16
• Tue 8: Snowy Neckdowns: Nature’s Traffic-Calming 0
• Tue 8: NY Counties Oppose Complete Streets Bill Without Understanding It 2
• Tue 8: EDC-Backed Supermarket to Build More Space for Parking Than Groceries 7
• Tue 8: “Amtrak Joe” Biden, in Philly, Announces New Plan for High-Speed Rail 0
• Tue 8: Does NYPD Know the Traffic Laws It’s Supposed to Enforce? 22
• Tue 8: Daily News to Cyclists: You Don’t Count 17
• Tue 8: Sprawl Breeds Sprawl 0
• Tue 8: Today’s Headlines 10
• Mon 7: 269 People Killed in NYC Traffic Crashes Last Year 2
• Mon 7: Bloomberg: It’s Up to Albany to Revive Congestion Pricing 2
• Mon 7: Upper West Side Leaders Calmly Study, Tweak Columbus Ave Lane 12
• Mon 7: In Attack on Sadik-Khan, the Daily News Can’t Get Its Facts Straight 6
• Mon 7: This Week: Ask the 19th Precinct About NYPD Street Safety Policy 0
• Mon 7: What Happens When Senator Chuck Schumer Doesn’t Like the New Bike Lane? 42
• Mon 7: Virginia Tea Party: GOP Development Policies = Eco-Extremism 0
• Mon 7: Today’s Headlines 22
• Fri 4: This Is How Marty Markowitz Shows the World He’s Not Anti-Bicycling 33
• Fri 4: Green Shoots at NYSDOT 0
• Fri 4: GOP Targets Transportation and Housing For the Deepest Cuts 0
• Fri 4: The Weekly Carnage 0
• Fri 4: DA Vance Explains Decisions to File Charges, or Not, in Traffic Crime Cases 8
• Fri 4: Markowitz Speaks Against Safer Streets in State of the Borough 37
• Fri 4: Award-Winning Transit-Oriented Development May Never Get Transit 0
• Fri 4: Today’s Headlines 6
• Thu 3: Garodnick Proposes Bar Code Scanners to Curb Parking Placard Abuse 20
• Thu 3: Charleston Highway Plan, Back From the Dead, May Finally Meet Its Maker 0
• Thu 3: Bragdon: PlaNYC 2.0 Cheaper, Bottom-Up, But May Include Hudson Tunnel 2
• Thu 3: Levin Traffic Task Force Gets to Work 12
• Thu 3: Transpo Committee Adds Southern Locations to Field Hearing Schedule 0
• Thu 3: The Dividends of Car-Free Parenting 0
• Thu 3: Urbanism in the Age of Climate Change: Urbanism Expanded 0
• Thu 3: Today’s Headlines 9
• Wed 2: Victims’ Families Ask Marty Markowitz to Get Serious About Street Safety 28
• Wed 2: APTA Survey: Transpo Bill Delay May Force Job Losses in U.S. Transit Industry 0
• Wed 2: Insurance Institute Study: Red Light Cameras Reduce Traffic Deaths 12
• Wed 2: DOT’s Interactive Map Points the Way to a More Livable Jackson Heights 2
• Wed 2: Tonight: Get In on the Ground Floor of Steve Levin’s Traffic Task Force 2
• Wed 2: What Does John McCain Have Against Bikes at Airports? 0
• Wed 2: Heads Up, Tom Latham: Livability Pays Big Dividends in Rural Iowa 0
• Wed 2: Today’s Headlines 5
• Tue 1: Real-Time Bus Info Arrives Along the B63 19
• Tue 1: At Wash Heights Workshop, Support For Ped-Friendly Plaza De Las Americas 2
• Tue 1: Cuomo Cuts $100 Million to Transit [Updated] 14
• Tue 1: First Look: Transit Money Getting Shuffled Around in Cuomo’s Budget 6
• Tue 1: How Cars Won the Early Battle for the Streets 0
• Tue 1: Today’s Headlines 20