Streetsblog New York City

Streetsblog New York City stories from June 2011

• Thu 30: NBBL Attorney Jumps on New York Times Story to Press His Case in Court 31
• Thu 30: TIGER III Will Grant $527 Million For Innovative Transportation Projects 0
• Thu 30: Albany Law Aids UN Land Swap to Help Fill East River Greenway Gap 6
• Thu 30: Transportation Secretary LaHood Answers Streetsblog Readers’ Questions 0
• Thu 30: Detroit’s Sprawl King: Transit Expansion Plan Would Be a “Job Killer” 0
• Thu 30: Today’s Headlines 18
• Wed 29: First NYC 20 MPH Zone to Slow Cars With Gateway Neckdowns, Speed Humps 31
• Wed 29: 36 Hours Left to Support Our Spring Fundraising Drive 1
• Wed 29: Stimulus-Backed Programs Struggle to Stay Alive After Funds Run Out 0
• Wed 29: Yassky: Taxi Plan Will Reduce Car Ownership, Improve Safety 16
• Wed 29: The Fiction of the Persecuted European Motorist 0
• Wed 29: Today’s Headlines 44
• Tue 28: Franco, Starks and Sadik-Khan Launch NYC’s Summer of Car-Free Streets 4
• Tue 28: Rumor Mill: House Leadership Hostile to Transpo Reauthorization 0
• Tue 28: DOT Unveils Livable Streets Makeover for Approach to Brooklyn Bridge Park 12
• Tue 28: Summer Streets 2011: Play Ball 8
• Tue 28: Coming to a College Campus Near You: More Learning, Less Parking 0
• Tue 28: Today’s Headlines 9
• Mon 27: New Signage to Guide Pedestrians in Four Neighborhoods 31
• Mon 27: The Times Theory of Democracy: “More Power to the Design Commission!” 23
• Mon 27: Got a Job Opening? Place Your Ad on the Streetsblog Jobs Board 0
• Mon 27: Overhaul of NYC Livery Cab System Now Awaits Cuomo’s Signature 10
• Mon 27: This Week: Mourning Lost Transit as Commuters Wait for Cuomo 0
• Mon 27: The Persistence of Job Sprawl in Smaller Cities 0
• Mon 27: Today’s Headlines 63
• Fri 24: Why Cynthia Rides 6
• Fri 24: Will Cuomo Protect Transit Riders and Sign the Transit Lockbox Bill? 3
• Fri 24: The Weekly Carnage 0
• Fri 24: Expect Two (Radically Different) Transpo Bill Proposals Soon 0
• Fri 24: Assembly Passes Transit Lockbox, Moves on to Governor 0
• Fri 24: As Local Governments Innovate, State DOT Still Focused on Roads 3
• Fri 24: Transit Lockbox Still Alive, Under Threat From GOP Assembly Members 3
• Fri 24: NYPD Starting to Roll Out Traffic Safety Data Online 23
• Fri 24: Rob Ford’s Toronto: Moving Backwards 0
• Fri 24: Today’s Headlines 6
• Thu 23: Silver Supports Transit Lockbox, Assembly Vote Likely Tonight 2
• Thu 23: Rahm Emanuel Refuses to Say He’s “Not Against Bike Lanes” 10
• Thu 23: 25 Senators Demand Robust Transit Funding 0
• Thu 23: Community Boards Line Up for Car-Free Central Park. Whither Bloomberg? 9
• Thu 23: My NYC Biking Story: Steve O’Neill 0
• Thu 23: Chicago Experimenting With the “Pedestrian Scramble” 0
• Thu 23: Today’s Headlines 5
• Wed 22: Transit Lockbox Passes Senate Unanimously, Needs Final Push In Assembly 0
• Wed 22: NYPD Opposes Bill to Curb Placard Abuse as Total Soars to 118,000 27
• Wed 22: Brad Lander: PPW Redesign Process Was Open, Transparent, and Democratic 2
• Wed 22: PPW Bike Lane Case Adjourned Until July 20 8
• Wed 22: Eyes on the Street: Sidewalk Hogging A-OK With NYPD 3
• Wed 22: Breaking: No Decision in NBBL Prospect Park West Suit; Next Hearing in July 0
• Wed 22: Cycling: What’s Holding Women Back? 0
• Wed 22: Rezoning to Encourage Street Life on Brooklyn’s Fourth Avenue 7
• Wed 22: Today’s Headlines 11
• Tue 21: For Nearly Two Years, Ex-NYC DOT Chief Has Undercut the Signature Street Safety and Sustainable Transportation Agenda of Her Successor 16
• Tue 21: This Week: Eastern Parkway and City Council Parking Hearing 1
• Tue 21: Complete Streets Passes Legislature Unanimously, Cuomo Expected To Sign 7
• Tue 21: Streets Built For Bikes and Pedestrians Also Yield More Jobs 0
• Tue 21: Today’s Headlines 5
• Mon 20: Transit Photo Contest Down to Ten Finalists – Time to Vote 4
• Mon 20: Upper Manhattan Finally Talks Out Bike Projects at CB 12 Forum 5
• Mon 20: Profiles of American BRT: Pittsburgh’s South Busway and East Busway 0
• Mon 20: This Week: NBBL Get Their Day in Court 0
• Mon 20: Too Many Transfers, Too Much Parking, Not Enough Multi-Modalism 0
• Mon 20: My NYC Biking Story: Howard Wolfson 0
• Mon 20: Today’s Headlines 21
• Fri 17: Why Saito Rides 1
• Fri 17: Eyes on the Street: Parking Meter Reincarnated as Bike Rack 9
• Fri 17: How to Plan Good Cities for Bicycling 11
• Fri 17: Syracuse Looks to Highway Removal to Revive Downtown Economy 0
• Fri 17: Community Board 9 Endorses Car-Free Park Trial, Reverses Committee Vote 0
• Fri 17: CB 8 Votes For Car-Free Park Trial, Declares All Cyclists Scofflaws 24
• Fri 17: Private Investors Make Ultimatum to Dictate Detroit Rail Design 0
• Fri 17: Today’s Headlines 12
• Thu 16: City’s Response to PPW Lawsuit Matter-of-Factly Dismantles NBBL Claims 21
• Thu 16: Poll: Republicans Support Transpo Policies to Avert Climate Change, Too 0
• Thu 16: Tonight: Upper Manhattanites Finally Get to Talk About Bike Lanes 4
• Thu 16: From London to D.C., Bike-Sharing Is Safer Than Riding Your Own Bike 38
• Thu 16: Koch-Funded “Scholar” O’Toole: Seniors Love Car Dependence 0
• Thu 16: Eight Senate Democrats Join GOP in Vote to Repeal MTA Payroll Tax 3
• Thu 16: Today’s Headlines 44
• Wed 15: Can Brooklyn Build a Pedestrian-Friendly Arena at the Atlantic Yards Site? 39
• Wed 15: Fix-It-First Bill Introduced in Senate 0
• Wed 15: Tonight: Keep Up the Momentum for a Car-Free Summer in Central Park 1
• Wed 15: The Art and Science of Designing Good Cities for Walking 8
• Wed 15: Two Pedestrians Critical After Manhattan and Brooklyn Crashes This Week 1
• Wed 15: House Transportation Committee Will Unveil Part of Transpo Bill Next Week 0
• Wed 15: Transit’s Identity Crisis: Social Service or Economic Engine? 0
• Wed 15: Today’s Headlines 5
• Tue 14: A Long Explanation of Why the Biking-While-Sexy Story Is No Hoax 31
• Tue 14: How Seniors Get Stuck at Home With No Transit Options 0
• Tue 14: Jan Gehl on Making Cities Safe for People 10
• Tue 14: Security Measures for Buses and Trains? They Could Make Us Less Safe 0
• Tue 14: Today’s Headlines 11
• Mon 13: DOT Chooses Least Ambitious Option For 181st Street Makeover 2
• Mon 13: Ray LaHood Wants to Hear From Streetsblog Readers 0
• Mon 13: This Week: Big Votes on a Car-Free Central Park Trial 2
• Mon 13: Which Comes First: Families Staying in the City, or Better Urban Schools? 0
• Mon 13: Today’s Headlines 63
• Fri 10: Saudi Arabia on the Hudson: NYPD Officer Stopped Cyclist For Wearing Skirt 123
• Fri 10: Cuomo to Introduce Statewide Distracted Driving Bill With Teeth 29
• Fri 10: After Cyclist Vandalizes His Car, DenDekker Compares Self to Gabby Giffords 11
• Fri 10: Google Shows That When Transit Agencies Free Their Data, Riders Win 0
• Fri 10: Eyes on the Street: Huge Grand Army Plaza Ped Islands Under Construction 19
• Fri 10: The Weekly Carnage 4
• Fri 10: Missing Details Prevent CB Vote for Bay Ridge Summer Streets, for Now 4
• Fri 10: “Right-Sizing” Detroit Should Start With Its Sprawling Suburbs 0
• Fri 10: Today’s Headlines 10
• Thu 9: Casey Neistat Explains RCNY § 4-12(p) 26
• Thu 9: Report: Older Pedestrians Remain Most Threatened By Traffic 3
• Thu 9: What We Don’t Know About the Crash That Killed Aileen Chen 125
• Thu 9: Rahm Emanuel: What’s Good for Cyclists Is Good for Chicago 12
• Thu 9: CB 10 Committee Latest Unanimous Vote For Car-Free Central Park Trial 0
• Thu 9: Maimonides Hospital, FDNY: Boro Park Ped Islands Don’t Slow Response Times 11
• Thu 9: Leapfrog Development Rears Its Ugly Head Outside of Fresno 0
• Thu 9: Today’s Headlines 6
• Wed 8: Tonight: Public Hearing for Bay Ridge Summer Streets 1
• Wed 8: Advocates: Ethical Standards Demand Zero Tolerance for Traffic Deaths 19
• Wed 8: Car-Free Central Park Trial Picks Up More Community Board Endorsements 3
• Wed 8: GM CEO: “We Ought to Just Slap a Dollar Tax on a Gallon of Gas” 0
• Wed 8: City Transpo, Health Advocates: One Traffic Death Is One Too Many 1
• Wed 8: Why Did Vincent Gentile Boot Pro-Bike Member From Community Board 10? 11
• Wed 8: Look Out Portland, New York, Minneapolis: Here Comes Chicago 0
• Wed 8: Today’s Headlines 9
• Tue 7: Eyes on the Street: Chowing Down in Midtown’s Public Spaces 2
• Tue 7: Cul-de-Sacs Are Killing Us: Public Safety Lessons From Suburbia 0
• Tue 7: Despite Biased Meeting, CB 6 Committee Endorses DOT Bike Lane Plan 4
• Tue 7: Jokester Ulrich Welcomes Serious Discussion of Traffic Safety… Just Not Now 10
• Tue 7: India’s Parking Policies Lead Down the Road to Car-Choked Cities 0
• Tue 7: Missouri, Welcome to the Era of the Broke State DOT 0
• Tue 7: Today’s Headlines 12
• Mon 6: Moving on From Vandalism Fears, Times Tries New Bike-Share Scare Tactics 21
• Mon 6: ‘Local Spokes’ Coalition Brings Grassroots Bike Planning to LES, Chinatown 2
• Mon 6: This Week: A Safer 181st Street, Midtown Bike Lanes Vote 0
• Mon 6: A Good Transit Plan Meets a Shaky Financial Commitment in Indianapolis 0
• Mon 6: Worried About Cars Killing People? Eric Ulrich Says “Get a Life” 34
• Mon 6: Today’s Headlines 64
• Fri 3: Why Lloyd Rides 4
• Fri 3: Will Two CB 9 Members Be Enough to Derail Car-Free Central Park Trial? 4
• Fri 3: The Weekly Carnage 0
• Fri 3: Highwayman Inhofe Still Wants to Rob Bike/Ped Funding From Transpo Bill 0
• Fri 3: Lander and Former CB6 Chair File Amicus Brief Supporting PPW Bike Lane 13
• Fri 3: Vacca Watch: At Budget Hearing, Council Calms Down, Focuses on Potholes 10
• Fri 3: Building a Groundswell for Safer Streets in the Deep South 0
• Fri 3: Today’s Headlines 9
• Thu 2: Staten Island Double Hit-and-Run Killer to Serve No More Than Five Years 7
• Thu 2: Car Crash in Harlem Kills Pedestrian, Hospitalizes Five Others 9
• Thu 2: Upper East Side Joins Chorus of Car-Free Central Park Supporters 3
• Thu 2: Lawmakers Introduce Reality-Based Plan to Achieve “Freedom From Oil” 0
• Thu 2: Eyes on the Street: Bike Lane Stripes on Washington Avenue 15
• Thu 2: The Biggest, Baddest Bike-Share in the World: Hangzhou China 0
• Thu 2: Trading Parking Spaces for Park Space 0
• Thu 2: Today’s Headlines 16
• Wed 1: Ped Improvements Will Ease Transit Access in East New York, Port Richmond 4
• Wed 1: Kramer and Hikind Exaggerate Victory in War on Pedestrians 13
• Wed 1: Thursday: Speak Up for Cross-Town Central Park Bike Paths 6
• Wed 1: Bloomberg in São Paulo: A Glimpse of the Green Mayor 2
• Wed 1: Suburban Office Parks Are Losing Their Beige-Tinted Shimmer 0
• Wed 1: Today’s Headlines 7