Streetsblog New York City

Streetsblog New York City stories from March 2011

• Thu 31: New Traffic Monitoring Toolkit Can Get You Started on Street Safety Activism 1
• Thu 31: Van Driver Kills Carroll Gardens Pedestrian Crossing Columbia Street 5
• Thu 31: Transportation for America Calls on Congress to Fix Nation’s Bridges 0
• Thu 31: Correction: No Forensic Audit Required By Budget Bill 1
• Thu 31: Witness Says Driver Ran Red Light in Crash That Killed Queens Pedestrian 23
• Thu 31: Guangzhou, China: Winning the Future With Bus Rapid Transit 0
• Thu 31: Strange Bedfellows Unite for Infrastructure Investment, Financing Tools 0
• Thu 31: Obama’s Energy Security Speech Misses the Mark 0
• Thu 31: Today’s Headlines 1
• Wed 30: Tonight and Thursday: DOT Accepting Public Input on 34th Street Revamp 0
• Wed 30: Jim Brennan, Marty Golden Aim to Slow Transit Raids 2
• Wed 30: Help Streetsblog Tell the Political Story Behind the Prospect Park West Fight 34
• Wed 30: Cameras Reduce Crashes, Red-Light Running in Newark 4
• Wed 30: Bike Lanes Still Controversial to Michael Grynbaum, Opinion Poll Be Damned 12
• Wed 30: Pro-Sprawl Policies Help Make Milwaukee America’s Most Segregated Metro 0
• Wed 30: We’ve Made a Few Comment System Tweaks 20
• Wed 30: Today’s Headlines 18
• Tue 29: Final Budget Deal Does Not Add to Cuomo’s Transit Raid [Updated] 7
• Tue 29: SoHo’s Rejected Pop-Up Cafés Won’t Appear Elsewhere 3
• Tue 29: Weiner Alone Incurred One Eighth of Congress’s Unpaid Parking and Traffic Tix 6
• Tue 29: SUV Driver Sends Brooklyn Delivery Cyclist to the ER 22
• Tue 29: Moving Beyond the Automobile: Highway Removal 0
• Tue 29: UWS Struggles to Solve Central Park Bike Crackdown, Likes East-West Paths 9
• Tue 29: Bad Ideas 101: An Outer-Outerbelt for Charlotte 0
• Tue 29: Today’s Headlines 10
• Mon 28: Caption Contest: Not Commenting About the [Expletive] Bike Lane 11
• Mon 28: Someone’s Paying for a Phone Survey About the Prospect Park West Bike Lane 30
• Mon 28: This Week: Midtown Plazas, Central Park, 34th Street 1
• Mon 28: Introducing Our New Comment System 35
• Mon 28: Happy 35th Birthday, D.C. Metro 0
• Mon 28: Prospect Park West Lawsuit Hearing Postponed Until May 15
• Mon 28: Today’s Headlines 5
• Fri 25: Get Hypnotized By Boris Bikes 7
• Fri 25: The Week Ahead: Congress Fights About Budget Cuts and Talks Transpo 0
• Fri 25: The Weekly Carnage 1
• Fri 25: Video: Rodriguez, Lander Call for Return to Sanity in Central Park 21
• Fri 25: Jim Brennan’s Office: MTA Will Not Lose Another $170M in State Budget 5
• Fri 25: Road Diets But No Bike Lanes for Two Queens Traffic Calming Projects 45
• Fri 25: Newsflash: Highways Are Handouts for Developers, Too 0
• Fri 25: Today’s Headlines 21
• Thu 24: Houston Advocates Rally to Save Bike-Ped Funds From Motorhead Bureaucrats 0
• Thu 24: Weiner: There’s No Need for “Warfare Over Bike Lanes” 22
• Thu 24: Pop-Up Café Expansion Faces Critical Community Board Vote Tonight 17
• Thu 24: Ad Nauseam Double Feature: Safe Subaru vs. Deadly Dodge 16
• Thu 24: The Secrets to Success for Transit-Oriented Development 0
• Thu 24: Assembly and Senate Would Strip Another $170M From Transit Riders 14
• Thu 24: Deputy Mayor Howard Wolfson Talks Bike Lanes on Brian Lehrer 16
• Thu 24: There’s a New Sheriff at Ohio DOT, and He Likes Asphalt 0
• Thu 24: Today’s Headlines 19
• Wed 23: Gale Brewer Introduces Bill to Make Central Park, Prospect Park Car-Free 18
• Wed 23: Jim Walden Tries to Distance Bike Lane Lawsuit From Weinshall and Schumer 31
• Wed 23: Road Diet for Macombs Road Wins Unanimous Bronx Community Board Vote 19
• Wed 23: NBBL Lawyer Jim Walden on Brian Lehrer This Morning 20
• Wed 23: Law Profs: PPW Lawsuit Unlikely to Succeed 7
• Wed 23: Car Companies Vie for Supremacy in Distracted Driving Arms Race 0
• Wed 23: Today’s Headlines 17
• Tue 22: NYPD: Riding Faster Than 15 MPH in Central Park Now Illegal 59
• Tue 22: WSJ: Mica Says Transit Funding Will Stay “About the Same” 0
• Tue 22: House Transportation Committee Rejects Obama’s 2012 Budget Request 0
• Tue 22: New York Has 81,875 Metered Parking Spaces, And Millions of Free Ones 23
• Tue 22: Nancy Gruskin Launches Delivery Cyclist Safety Campaign 45
• Tue 22: A Casino for Lower Manhattan? How Banishing Vice Can Backfire 0
• Tue 22: Today’s Headlines 14
• Mon 21: Eyes on the Street: Gabbing on Garfield Street, After the Parade 3
• Mon 21: Unlicensed Drivers of Private Cars a Far Bigger Threat Than Tour Bus Drivers 20
• Mon 21: This Week: Traffic Calming in Western Queens 0
• Mon 21: Steve Levin Has No Position on the Prospect Park West Bike Lane 14
• Mon 21: Top Bloomberg Adviser Sets Record Straight on Local Support for Bike Lanes 16
• Mon 21: Transit Agencies Seeking Operating Support Meet Politics as Usual 0
• Mon 21: Today’s Headlines 22
• Fri 18: Three Down… 11
• Fri 18: Waterfront Plan Provides Timeline for Greenway Expansions 12
• Fri 18: The Weekly Carnage 3
• Fri 18: Why a Republican Congress is Good For Bike Advocates 0
• Fri 18: Private Sanitation Truck Kills Pedestrian in Brooklyn 11
• Fri 18: What Backlash? Q Poll Finds 54 Percent of NYC Voters Support Bike Lanes 44
• Fri 18: Sapping Street Life in Dallas, Ordinance by Ordinance 0
• Fri 18: Brooklyn CB 6 Committees Vote Unanimously for DOT’s Next Steps on PPW 12
• Fri 18: Today’s Headlines 9
• Thu 17: Crain’s: Finalists Chosen for NYC Bike-Share 13
• Thu 17: PPW Plaintiffs Cherrypicked Data to Attack DOT’s Bike Lane Evaluation 10
• Thu 17: Replacement For Yankee Stadium Parking Will Still Have to Pay The Bills 16
• Thu 17: Tea Party Conspiracy Theorists Descend on Charlottesville, VA 0
• Thu 17: Today’s Headlines 13
• Wed 16: A Transportation Engineer Weighs in on the Prospect Park West Lawsuit 8
• Wed 16: Transit, Not Traffic, the Most Important Transpo Issue for New Yorkers 1
• Wed 16: Rep. LaTourette Tells Transit Advocates to Ask Congress for What They Need 0
• Wed 16: Video: What It’s Like to Walk Across the Prospect Park West Bike Lane 18
• Wed 16: Downtowns Are Back, and They’re Bringing Central Neighborhoods Along 0
• Wed 16: Today’s Headlines 28
• Tue 15: “Grab a Hold of Your Shorts”: Mica and LaHood Talk Transportation Bill 0
• Tue 15: Eyes on the Street: NYPD Cruiser Rammed in Park Slope 7
• Tue 15: NYCEDC’s Yankee Stadium Parking Debacle: Who Woulda Thought? 20
• Tue 15: Moving Beyond the Automobile: Congestion Pricing 0
• Tue 15: Kerry, Hutchinson, and Warner Introduce New Infrastructure Bank Bill 0
• Tue 15: Hundreds Ask NYPD to Cease Irrational Bike Crackdown in Central Park 67
• Tue 15: Trying to Lure Google? Better Have Mixed-Use, Walkable Development 0
• Tue 15: DOT Presents Scaled-Back Concept for 34th Street 14
• Tue 15: Today’s Headlines 4
• Mon 14: Even Critics of Prospect Park West Lane Don’t Buy the “Unsafe” Argument 2
• Mon 14: A Metro Detroit Business Owner on the Talent-Repelling Effect of Sprawl 0
• Mon 14: The Fulton Street Mall: Retail Success on NYC’s Original Transitway 11
• Mon 14: Miracles Are for Movies: No World-Class Bus Service for 34th Street 6
• Mon 14: Will Senate Republicans Send Back Their Own States’ TIGER Money? 0
• Mon 14: Tonight: Ask NYPD for a Return to Sanity in Central Park 20
• Mon 14: The Sixth Annual Memorial Ride and Walk 0
• Mon 14: This Week: Talk to NYPD About the Central Park Bike Crackdown 2
• Mon 14: In Detroit, Competing Interests Offer Competing Visions for Rail 0
• Mon 14: Today’s Headlines 23
• Fri 11: Who Supports the Prospect Park West Bike Lane? 27
• Fri 11: The Weekly Carnage 1
• Fri 11: Cyclists Descend on Capitol Hill, Ask Lawmakers to Preserve Bike Funding 0
• Fri 11: At CB 6 Hearing, Supporters of PPW Redesign Outnumber Detractors 8 to 1 21
• Fri 11: Today’s Headlines 29
• Thu 10: Don’t Let Fear of Public Speaking Keep You From Tonight’s PPW Hearing 25
• Thu 10: New NYS DOT Commish on Smart Growth: “We Need to Go Further” 2
• Thu 10: NACTO: Feds Already Greenlighting Bikeway Design Innovations 0
• Thu 10: Don’t Let a Few Raindrops Keep You Away From Tonight’s CB 6 Hearing 2
• Thu 10: Politically Connected PPW Bike Lane Foes Are Fighting Their Own Neighbors 43
• Thu 10: Ohio Gov. John Kasich vs. the Cincinnati Streetcar 0
• Thu 10: Today’s Headlines 27
• Wed 9: Brits Get the Clearest View of Park Slope Bike Lane Fight 12
• Wed 9: New Bikeway Design Guide Could Bring Safer Cycling to More American Cities 0
• Wed 9: Eyes on the Street: Media Envy in DC 4
• Wed 9: Advocates Deliver 1,700 Thank Yous to Sadik-Khan and Bloomberg 4
• Wed 9: Obama’s Transpo Secretary Is a Big Fan of Janette Sadik-Khan 7
• Wed 9: State DOT “Improvements” Imperil Pedestrians in Florida 0
• Wed 9: LaHood Kicks Off National Bike Summit 0
• Wed 9: Today’s Headlines 29
• Tue 8: Brad Lander and Park Slope Residents Rally For Prospect Park West Bike Lane 29
• Tue 8: Moving Beyond the Automobile: Bus Rapid Transit 0
• Tue 8: Tomorrow: Join TSTC in Thanking the City for Making Streets Safer 11
• Tue 8: State Transpo Officials Push to Toll for Maintenance, Not Just Capacity 0
• Tue 8: DOT to Daylight All Left Turns on Lexington Avenue in Midtown 26
• Tue 8: Bypasses of Bypasses: A Case Study on Induced Sprawl From North Carolina 0
• Tue 8: Today’s Headlines 24
• Mon 7: Opponents Sue City Over Prospect Park West Bike Lane 57
• Mon 7: On Eve of National Bike Summit, A Renewed Push for Separated Bike Lanes 0
• Mon 7: Cuomo Budget Amendments Claim End to MTA Raids After This Year 1
• Mon 7: Cycle Tracks, “Floating Parking” and Bike Buffer Zones 0
• Mon 7: Transpo’s Losses in First Round of Spending Cuts Look Worse Than They Are 0
• Mon 7: Tell Electeds and the Media: I’m a New Yorker, and I Want Safer Streets 10
• Mon 7: Is Generational Turnover Necessary for the Return of Cities? 0
• Mon 7: This Week: Prospect Park West, Daylighting, Budget Hearings 0
• Mon 7: Today’s Headlines 21
• Fri 4: The New York Times JSK Profile: Politicos vs. Progressive Transportation 61
• Fri 4: Bloomberg on His Transpo Commissioner: “Keep Coming Up With New Ideas” 36
• Fri 4: The Weekly Carnage 1
• Fri 4: Thursday, March 10 Is CB6′s Prospect Park West Bike Lane Finale 7
• Fri 4: Public-Private Plan for Goethals Trades Higher Costs for Faster Construction 1
• Fri 4: Marty Golden’s Truck Safety Bill Advances in the Senate 7
• Fri 4: Is Jersey City a Suburb? Joel Kotkin Thinks So 0
• Fri 4: Today’s Headlines 26
• Thu 3: NYPD’s Selective Approach to Selective Enforcement in Central Park 25
• Thu 3: The Federal Transportation Bill Is a Health Care Bill 0
• Thu 3: DenDekker Withdraws Statewide Bike License Bill 18
• Thu 3: 34th Street Has Changed Before, And It Can Change Again 10
• Thu 3: Moving Beyond the Automobile: Car-Sharing 0
• Thu 3: EPA: Energy Efficiency Is About Location, Location, Location 0
• Thu 3: Beyond Bus v. Rail: A Nuanced Approach to Evaluating Transit 0
• Thu 3: City Scraps Pedestrian Plaza Option for 34th Street Transitway 15
• Thu 3: Today’s Headlines 18
• Wed 2: House Passes Seventh Extension of Transportation Bill 0
• Wed 2: Eyes on the Street: Negotiating Lafayette and Broome Sans Traffic Controls 4
• Wed 2: Mica, LaHood Stump at AASHTO Meeting 0
• Wed 2: Virginia Cops Flag Injured Pedestrians for Interference 5
• Wed 2: Budget Woes Force MTA To Cut More Than Half of All LI Bus Lines 12
• Wed 2: Despite NY Post Report to Contrary, Stringer Supports BRT for 34th Street 8
• Wed 2: Is Driving on the Decline in the Pacific Northwest? 0
• Wed 2: Today’s Headlines 20
• Tue 1: Mica on the Next Transportation Bill: Size Matters 0
• Tue 1: Think New York Needs Complete Streets? Take the PBS Poll 2
• Tue 1: Albany Lacks Leadership on Transit as Time Runs Out on MTA Capital Funding 2
• Tue 1: There Is No War On Cars 26
• Tue 1: A Car Becomes a Weapon in Brazil; Pedestrians Shortchanged in Detroit 0
• Tue 1: Michael DenDekker Explains His Inexplicable Bike License Bill 37
• Tue 1: Today’s Headlines 13