Streetsblog New York City

Streetsblog New York City stories from August 2011

• Wed 31: A Back-to-School Syllabus for Complete Streets Advocates 0
• Wed 31: Next Week: DOT to Re-Present Plans for East Side Bike Lanes Up to 125th 4
• Wed 31: President Obama Pushes Congress For a Clean Extension of Transpo Bill 0
• Wed 31: Cyclist Erica Abbott Killed in Williamsburg [Updated] 99
• Wed 31: Today’s Headlines 8
• Tue 30: “Bowtie of Death” Ped Safety Improvements Underway [Updated] 4
• Tue 30: Nets Fans Get No Assist From Atlantic Yards’ Shrinking Sidewalks 5
• Tue 30: With Deadlines Looming, Mica Supports Transportation Extension 0
• Tue 30: Parks Drops Dismount Signage at Upper West Side Greenway Exit 31
• Tue 30: Well That’s a Relief: Hurricane Irene Shouldn’t Affect Gas Prices Much 0
• Tue 30: Today’s Headlines 11
• Mon 29: Post-Irene Open Thread 2: A Teachable Transportation Moment 10
• Mon 29: Open Thread: How Was Your Commute? 12
• Mon 29: Today’s Headlines 7
• Fri 26: Why Janet Rides 4
• Fri 26: Wanted: Your Post-Irene Pics 1
• Fri 26: Questions Arise Over Placement of Chelsea Bike Lanes 15
• Fri 26: Submit Your Park(ing) Day Application Like, Now 0
• Fri 26: The Weekly Carnage 1
• Fri 26: Trend Watch: Sandwich Board Bikes 4
• Fri 26: Today’s Headlines 13
• Thu 25: Hoboken to Approach 80 Percent Bike Network Coverage 10
• Thu 25: Streetsblog Thursday Job Market 0
• Thu 25: Open Thread: Hurricanes, Earthquakes, Gridlock and Other Natural Disasters 21
• Thu 25: Today’s Headlines 18
• Wed 24: Behind the Scenes of a Presidential Bike Ride 7
• Wed 24: Interview With Donald Shoup: Los Angeles Making Strides With ExpressPark 0
• Wed 24: Tonight: DOT to Unveil Plans for Bike Lanes on 29th and 30th Streets 1
• Wed 24: Eyes on the Street: Brooklyn Bike Patrol 14
• Wed 24: Today’s Headlines 8
• Tue 23: In Portland, Counterposing Demands for Equity and Innovation 0
• Tue 23: Today’s Headlines 13
• Mon 22: “Stop Means Stop”: Vacca Gives Thumbs-Up to Busy Red Light Cameras 53
• Mon 22: This Week: Crosstown Bike Lanes in Chelsea 3
• Mon 22: Would Taxing Bikes Solve the Infrastructure Problem? 0
• Mon 22: Today’s Headlines 9
• Fri 19: Why Michele Rides 8
• Fri 19: Brookings: 700,000 Carless Americans Stranded Outside Reach of Transit 0
• Fri 19: SRTS Conference 2011: NYC Student Activist Inspires National Audience 0
• Fri 19: The Weekly Carnage 4
• Fri 19: Will NBBL Bury the Hatchet or Continue to Wage War on Safer Streets? 22
• Fri 19: What’s Troubling Megabus Haters? 0
• Fri 19: Today’s Headlines 90
• Thu 18: That Was Quick 18
• Thu 18: Eyes on the Street: NYC’s First Bike Corral Underway on Smith Street 25
• Thu 18: Shocking Video From the Brooklyn Bridge “War Path” 22
• Thu 18: One More Push Can Preserve Federal Safe Routes to School Funding 0
• Thu 18: Streetsblog Thursday Job Market 0
• Thu 18: T4A Building Album of USA’s Most Dangerous Streets, Needs Your Photos! 0
• Thu 18: Today’s Headlines 19
• Wed 17: Rewind: The Taming and Reclaiming of Prospect Park West 1
• Wed 17: Must-Read: 94th Pct Detectives Blew Off Near-Fatal Hit-and-Run Investigation 15
• Wed 17: Recession Forcing Cutbacks at Nearly 80 Percent of U.S. Transit Agencies 0
• Wed 17: Victory for Safe Streets: Judge Rejects Prospect Park West Bike Lane Lawsuit 26
• Wed 17: How Seattle’s Deep-Bore Highway Opponents Lost Their Own Referendum 0
• Wed 17: Today’s Headlines 9
• Tue 16: Judge Dismisses PPW Bike Lane Lawsuit: Open Thread 17
• Tue 16: Cuomo Signs Complete Streets Bill, To Take Effect In February 2
• Tue 16: What We Learned From the Daily News Bike Lane Debate 44
• Tue 16: Shocking Video of the Manhattan Bridge “Battleground” 22
• Tue 16: Pay-By-Phone Coming To New York — Will Other Parking Innovations Follow? 7
• Tue 16: Bike Lane Chat With the Daily News Now Underway 12
• Tue 16: Maryland SHA: Guardrails Are for Protecting Cars, Not People 0
• Tue 16: Today at Noon: Bike Lane Debate at the Daily Politics 2
• Tue 16: Today’s Headlines 12
• Mon 15: Revealed: Council Member Tish James Tells Us Where She’s Been Biking 1
• Mon 15: Cuomo Will Sign Complete Streets Bill Into Law 1
• Mon 15: Broad Coalition Urges Cuomo to Enact Transit Lockbox 6
• Mon 15: Civil Rights Group Demands End to Car-Centric Transportation Policies 0
• Mon 15: Summer Streets 4, Part Two: Photos and Open Thread 0
• Mon 15: Transit By Referendum: A New Way Forward for Atlanta and Seattle? 0
• Mon 15: Today’s Headlines 12
• Fri 12: Summer Streets Forecast: Sunny and Beautiful 1
• Fri 12: The Weekly Carnage 1
• Fri 12: The Daily News Has Got to Stop Printing Cyclist Stereotypes 31
• Fri 12: At St. George, EDC Wants Suburban-Style Parking for Its “Vibrant Downtown” 8
• Fri 12: Michigan Puts Road Engineers on Bikes 0
• Fri 12: Q-Poll: NYC Residents Want More Funds For MTA By Nearly 2-1 Margin 5
• Fri 12: Cyclists Take Black Hawk Bike-Ban Case to Colorado Supreme Court 0
• Fri 12: Today’s Headlines 14
• Thu 11: Saturday: Tish James Gets the Word Out on Bike-Ped Unity 2
• Thu 11: Hudson Square BID Puts Pedestrians First Near Entrance to Holland Tunnel 6
• Thu 11: It’s Official: Congress’s Next Spitting Contest Will Be Over the Gas Tax 0
• Thu 11: How Many Obstacles Does It Take to Stop NYPD Sidewalk Parking? 20
• Thu 11: Breathtaking Bike Infrastructure: Minneapolis’s Martin Olav Sabo Bridge 0
• Thu 11: Introducing Streetsblog’s Thursday Job Market 1
• Thu 11: San Antonio’s Sprawl-Busting Transit Chief 0
• Thu 11: Today’s Headlines 14
• Wed 10: Protected Bike Lanes Coming to East Harlem, Tweets Mark-Viverito 3
• Wed 10: Cutting “Waste and Inefficiency” Won’t Eliminate the MTA’s Budget Problems 10
• Wed 10: Feds Call “All Hands On Deck” For Detroit Transit 0
• Wed 10: Study: Vancouver Merchants Badly Misjudge Effect of Protected Bike Lanes 11
• Wed 10: When Will the Environmental Movement Embrace Cities? 0
• Wed 10: Today’s Headlines 6
• Tue 9: Cuomo: College Should Be Priced Rationally. Roads? Not So Much. 15
• Tue 9: Alex Steffen: We Can’t Avert Climate Change Without Dense Cities 0
• Tue 9: Marist Poll: Two-Thirds of New Yorkers Support Bike Lanes 14
• Tue 9: Chinese Communist Party Emulates America’s Socialist Parking Policies 0
• Tue 9: Today’s Headlines 10
• Mon 8: Remembering Hugh Carey, the Man Who Saved New York’s Transit System 3
• Mon 8: Cuomo Appoints 20-Member Committee to Help Search for New MTA Chief 6
• Mon 8: Riding Bogotá’s Bountiful Protected Bikeways 0
• Mon 8: Summer Streets 4, Part One 2
• Mon 8: Salt Lake City, Rising Transit Star 0
• Mon 8: Today’s Headlines 10
• Fri 5: Amid Christie and Cuomo Raids, Port Authority Plans Huge Fare and Toll Hike 6
• Fri 5: Summer Streets, When Park Avenue Earns Its Name, Starts Tomorrow 1
• Fri 5: The Weekly Carnage 3
• Fri 5: Larry Hanley: Part-Time Labor Won’t Save American Transit 0
• Fri 5: Who Will Be the Next MTA Chief? 10
• Fri 5: The Hidden Costs of Living Far From Work 0
• Fri 5: Today’s Headlines 10
• Thu 4: Stephen Goldsmith Out, Cas Holloway in as Deputy Mayor For Operations 5
• Thu 4: Dan Biederman: “If You Try to Change Things, You Get Opposition” 4
• Thu 4: Funding Assumptions in MTA Capital Program Already Look Like Fantasies 2
• Thu 4: ATU President Larry Hanley on How to Build a Strong Coalition for Transit 0
• Thu 4: DC’s Public Bike Network Goes Bigger and Gets Better With Capital Bikeshare 0
• Thu 4: Downtown Louisville Drowning in a Sea of Parking 0
• Thu 4: Today’s Headlines 3
• Wed 3: Cyclist Killed Near Rockaway Beach, Second Bike Fatality This Week 10
• Wed 3: From Sprawling New Jersey, a New Way Forward for State DOTs 0
• Wed 3: Crossover Mirror Bill Takes Effect Next January 4
• Wed 3: A Verbal Tour of Midtown With Public Space Maestro Dan Biederman 10
• Wed 3: Judge Rejects More NBBL Subpoenas in PPW Case [Updated] 1
• Wed 3: Eyes on the Street: Lower Manhattan Bikeways Get More Rideable 12
• Wed 3: Life Outside the Minivan: Car-Free Families Go Their Own Way 0
• Wed 3: Today’s Headlines 5
• Tue 2: Trucker Kills Cyclist; Daily News: Are Bikes More Dangerous Than Cars? 59
• Tue 2: “This Is Not a Good Bill”: Congress Holds Its Nose, Passes Debt Bill 0
• Tue 2: Vacca Watch: Transpo Chair Stays Strong on Speeding Enforcement 5
• Tue 2: My NYC Biking Story: Gabri Christa 0
• Tue 2: Indestructible Cincinnati Streetcar Faces Another Foe 0
• Tue 2: Arturas Zuokas, World’s Most Bike-Friendly Mayor [Updated] 14
• Tue 2: Today’s Headlines 2
• Mon 1: Silver on MTA Funding Plan: Wait Until 2012 Budget Debate 2
• Mon 1: Guess Who Has a Lot to Lose From an MTA Meltdown: Drivers 8
• Mon 1: Vacca Watch: Transpo Chair a Big Booster of Parking Minimums 3
• Mon 1: This Week: Help Plan a Continuous East River Greenway 1
• Mon 1: Debt Deal Could Mean More Painful Cuts for Transportation 0
• Mon 1: Bike Shops: The Unsung Heroes of the Cycling Movement 0
• Mon 1: Today’s Headlines 3