Streetsblog New York City

Streetsblog New York City stories from July 2011

• Fri 29: Take a Tour of the Sheridan Expressway (While You Still Can) 4
• Fri 29: The Weekly Carnage 3
• Fri 29: Workshop Offers Few Strong Ideas for Deadly Adam Clayton Powell, Jr. Blvd. 13
• Fri 29: Charlottesville, Virginia to Bypass Years of Careful Planning 0
• Fri 29: Today’s Headlines 10
• Thu 28: Spring Bike Counts Show Steady Growth of 14 Percent 19
• Thu 28: Nice Ride MN: Bike Share Expands in the Twin Cities 0
• Thu 28: Hudson River Greenway Reopened As Of This Morning 11
• Thu 28: Bike Lanes More Popular Than God 79
• Thu 28: For Raquel Nelson, Justice Still Elusive 0
• Thu 28: Today’s Headlines 9
• Wed 27: Cyclist Gets in the Way of Cop Opening Van Door. Was “Criminality” Involved? 40
• Wed 27: Hudson River Greenway Closure Forces Cyclists Onto Unmarked Detour 19
• Wed 27: Bike League: “Eligibility” for Bike-Ped Isn’t the Same As “Dedicated Funding” 0
• Wed 27: Cuomo, Albany Balance MTA’s Books on the Backs of Straphangers 27
• Wed 27: Car and Driver Magazine: “We Must Consider Alternative Transportation” 0
• Wed 27: Today’s Headlines 13
• Tue 26: At Judge’s Urging, NBBL Attorney Jim Walden Withdraws Round of Subpoenas 27
• Tue 26: Confirmed: DOT Studying More Car-Free Time in Central Park 7
• Tue 26: MTA Identifies $2 Billion in Savings — Now Comes the Hard Part 7
• Tue 26: Raquel Nelson Sentenced to Year of Probation, Granted Option of New Trial 0
• Tue 26: Maryland Police: Fallen Cyclist Shouldn’t Have Been on the Road 0
• Tue 26: Today’s Headlines 27
• Mon 25: Chamber of Commerce: Empty Asphalt = Good Transportation Performance 0
• Mon 25: Eyes on the Street: Public Space Upgrades for Allen and Pike in Progress 13
• Mon 25: Raquel Nelson Speaks on the Today Show About Her Son and Her Court Case 0
• Mon 25: Eyes on the Street: Union Street Trolley Tracks Exposed! 6
• Mon 25: This Week: Better Transit in Flushing, Safer Streets in Harlem 0
• Mon 25: Dallas Demonstrates How Not to Build a Modern Streetcar 0
• Mon 25: Today’s Headlines 19
• Fri 22: Fun Routes to Transit 3
• Fri 22: The Streets and the Courts Failed Raquel Nelson. Can Advocacy Save Her? 0
• Fri 22: To Study Sheridan Teardown, City Pulls Back the Lens 1
• Fri 22: The Weekly Carnage 5
• Fri 22: Amtrak’s Loco Locomotive Purchase for the Northeast Corridor 0
• Fri 22: Manhattan Borough Board Unanimously Endorses Car-Free Central Park Trial 5
• Fri 22: On Gentrification and Cycling 0
• Fri 22: Today’s Headlines 9
• Thu 21: Walder Praised After Resigning; Successor Will Be Thrust Into Era of Scarcity 19
• Thu 21: Boxer Confirms Bike-Ped Funding; “Gang of Six” Loves Infrastructure Spending 0
• Thu 21: Jay Walder Resigns as MTA Chief, Effective October 21 [Updated] 15
• Thu 21: Meet the Obscure Unelected Agencies Strangling Many U.S. Cities 0
• Thu 21: “Midtown in Motion” to Come With Rad Driver-Distracting Apps 16
• Thu 21: Vacca Watch: Traffic and Parking Über Alles 22
• Thu 21: Columbus’s Hide-the-Poor Transit Strategy Is, Predictably, Bad for Transit 0
• Thu 21: Today’s Headlines 10
• Wed 20: When Will the NBBL PR Stunt Come to an End? 18
• Wed 20: New York Rightfully Takes Over Top Spot on Walk Score 19
• Wed 20: Rumor Mill: City Collecting Data for Car-Free Central Park? 2
• Wed 20: Senate Staff Says Transpo Bill Maintains Dedicated Funding For Bike/Ped 0
• Wed 20: JSK Counters Markowitz Affidavit; No Decision on PPW Bike Lane Case Today 10
• Wed 20: High-Tech Midtown Traffic System Will Ignore Pedestrians and Buses 11
• Wed 20: Mixed Messages: Parking Requirements at Bars 0
• Wed 20: Today’s Headlines 11
• Tue 19: East River Bridges: 100 Years of Free Rides Take Their “Toll” 0
• Tue 19: NYPD: Curb-Jumper Hit Senior While Parking, “No Criminality Suspected” 12
• Tue 19: Marty Markowitz Chooses the Perfect Moment to Jump Into PPW Lawsuit 9
• Tue 19: Mayor William J. Gaynor Owes New York City $31 Billion, and Counting 16
• Tue 19: Curb-Jumping Motorist Severs Leg of Pedestrian in Midtown 16
• Tue 19: No Commitment to Bike-Ped Funding in Senate Transpo Bill Outline 0
• Tue 19: St. Louis, 2008: Another “Carmageddon” That Wasn’t 0
• Tue 19: Today’s Headlines 16
• Mon 18: On Progressive Transportation, Bill de Blasio Has Some Catching Up to Do 14
• Mon 18: Wanted: Better Protection for Thousands of Cyclists Dumped Onto the Bowery 18
• Mon 18: Why Carmageddon (and the Wolfpack Victory) Matters 0
• Mon 18: Today’s Headlines 49
• Fri 15: Why Ray Rides 6
• Fri 15: Eyes on the Street: Brand New Pop-Up Café on Sullivan Street 6
• Fri 15: Look Ma, No Windshield! 5
• Fri 15: The Weekly Carnage 1
• Fri 15: House Votes to Strip High-Speed Rail Funding 0
• Fri 15: The Times Invites Drivers to Take a Spin Through the Central Park Loop 17
• Fri 15: Don’t Count High Speed Rail Out Yet 0
• Fri 15: In the Tortured Mind of Steve Cuozzo, Even Street Trees Are a Threat 14
• Fri 15: Today’s Headlines 6
• Thu 14: First Segment of Downtown East River Esplanade Opens, Already Packed 8
• Thu 14: Vacca Watch: Transpo Chair Stokes Fears of Phantom Bike Lanes on NY1 16
• Thu 14: Georgia Mom Convicted of Vehicular Homicide For Crossing Street With Kids 0
• Thu 14: Calling the PPW Redesign a “Trial”? That Was Brooklyn Borough Hall’s Idea 24
• Thu 14: Jackson Heights Play Street Open Extra Month, Could Become Permanent 2
• Thu 14: Federal Government, Despite Progress, Still Acting as Agent of Sprawl 0
• Thu 14: Today’s Headlines 14
• Wed 13: Unlicensed Driver Pays the Price for Killing Laurence Renard: $500 9
• Wed 13: Ford, Verizon Support National Distracted Driving Law — And Its Loophole 0
• Wed 13: To Close the Gender Gap, Separate Cyclists From Cars 15
• Wed 13: Plans For First Two Crosstown Central Park Bike-Ped Paths Take Shape 27
• Wed 13: NBBL Subpoenas Not Yet Sanctioned By the Court, But Embraced By the Post 11
• Wed 13: Coincidence? Most Expensive Cities for Parking All Suspiciously Awesome 0
• Wed 13: Today’s Headlines 21
• Tue 12: With Plenty of Fanfare, Cuomo Toughens New York’s Distracted Driving Law 7
• Tue 12: CB 12′s Bike Resolution Testifies to Uptown Support for Safer Streets 0
• Tue 12: Mica: Why Are the Democrats Picking On Me? 0
• Tue 12: The Queens Plaza Protected Bike Path Is Open for Business 0
• Tue 12: Brennan Drops Plan for More Atlantic Yards Parking, Will Push Transit Instead 14
• Tue 12: The Exquisite Irony of the House GOP Transpo Bill Cover 0
• Tue 12: Today’s Headlines 9
• Mon 11: Scott Stringer, Linda Rosenthal Push DOT to Install Promised Ped Safety Fix 14
• Mon 11: CUNY Refuses to Disclose Weinshall Emails About PPW Bike Lane 50
• Mon 11: American BRT: A Rapid Bus Network Expands in Las Vegas 0
• Mon 11: An Unsettling Look at the Early Marketing of the Two-Car Household 0
• Mon 11: This Week: Fixing The Great Mistake 4
• Mon 11: Tour de Queens 2011 0
• Mon 11: Today’s Headlines 15
• Fri 8: Why Jessica Rides 11
• Fri 8: Alan Dershowitz: Vance Dragging His Feet on Fatal Crash Investigation 3
• Fri 8: Eyes on the Street: Progress on the First Ave Bike Lane. Terrorists Rejoice! 6
• Fri 8: Has America Passed Peak Car Use, or Is It Just a Cyclical Decline? 0
• Fri 8: The Weekly Carnage 0
• Fri 8: Mica Transportation Bill Would Devastate New York Transit 5
• Fri 8: Mica’s Transpo Bill Would Spell Disaster for Transit 0
• Fri 8: Bin Laden Is Dead, But the Second Avenue Bike Lane Lives On 77
• Fri 8: Today’s Headlines 7
• Thu 7: No Charges From Cy Vance for Killing of Yolanda Casal 27
• Thu 7: Mica’s Transportation Proposal: Responses Flood In 0
• Thu 7: New Online Networking Platform Focuses on Greening NYC 2
• Thu 7: Mica Transpo Bill Shrinks Spending 33%, Eliminates Bike-Ped Guarantee 0
• Thu 7: My NYC Biking Story: Bin Feng Zheng 0
• Thu 7: Judge Rejects Delay Attempt By PPW Bike Lane Opponents 7
• Thu 7: Mica’s Measurements: $230 Billion, Six Years 0
• Thu 7: The Motor City’s Burgeoning Cycling Scene 0
• Thu 7: Jim Brennan Wants to Force Ratner to Build More Atlantic Yards Parking 21
• Thu 7: Today’s Headlines 6
• Wed 6: Here They Are: The Best and Worst City Transit Scenes 3
• Wed 6: DOT Plan: No More Fighting Over Scraps at South End of Brooklyn Bridge Park 11
• Wed 6: Boxer: Two-Year Transpo Bill Will Save 600,000 Jobs 0
• Wed 6: Dershowitz Death Illuminates Dangers Faced By Greenway-Bound Cyclists 14
• Wed 6: The Once and Future Auto Bailouts 0
• Wed 6: Department of City Planning Continues to Restrict Development Near Transit 3
• Wed 6: DC’s Car-Sharing Fee: A Case Study in Bad Parking Policy 0
• Wed 6: Today’s Headlines 28
• Tue 5: Demystifying NYC’s Cycling Gender Gap 6
• Tue 5: Cleveland’s Center-Running BRT Route, the HealthLine, Sparks Development 0
• Tue 5: Legislature Passes Distracted Driving Bill With Weaker Penalty Than Cuomo’s 1
• Tue 5: This Week: Better Access to Brooklyn Bridge Park, Part Two 3
• Tue 5: The Specious Threat of Spillover Parking 0
• Tue 5: Today’s Headlines 20
• Sun 3: Why Andrew Rides 1
• Fri 1: Vacca Watch: Council Allows Parking Meter Rates to Rise to Dollar Per Hour 4
• Fri 1: DOT: “No Plans at This Time” for Car-Free Central Park Trial 14
• Fri 1: NYPD Van Jumps Curb, Kills Chinatown Pedestrian 3
• Fri 1: Will Vance Prosecute Driver Who Killed Yolanda Casal for Deadly Negligence? 12
• Fri 1: City Asks Judge to Reject NBBL Attorney’s Request to Put Off PPW Hearing 6
• Fri 1: The Weekly Carnage 3
• Fri 1: Conservation Voters Give Legislature “B” Grade on Transportation 0
• Fri 1: Requiem for Three Pedestrian Islands in Boro Park 12
• Fri 1: The Social Benefits of Cycling Identified, Enumerated and Imitated 0
• Fri 1: Today’s Headlines 28