Streetsblog New York City

Streetsblog New York City stories from November 2011

• Wed 30: What If There Were Tolls on the BQE? 33
• Wed 30: Transportation Alternatives Launches Probe Into NYPD Crash Investigations 9
• Wed 30: Boston to Expand Hubway Bike-Share After Brilliant First Season 0
• Wed 30: Epic Job Creation Fail: Paying Developers to Build Parking 0
• Wed 30: Today’s Headlines 9
• Tue 29: Critical Mass Is Alive and Well at Guadalajara’s Paseo de Todos 0
• Tue 29: Eyes on the Street: At Knickerbocker Ave. Station, No Such Thing as TOD 3
• Tue 29: City Council Bill Would Weaken Bikes in Garages Law, Keep Number of Spaces 12
• Tue 29: Mapped: How Federal Funding Fails to Match Demand for Transit in the U.S. 0
• Tue 29: On Jay Street, Police Break Traffic Laws More Than They Enforce Them 24
• Tue 29: Light Rail Expansion Signals an Urbanizing Houston 0
• Tue 29: Is Congress Trying to Put the Kibosh on TIGER Funding For Bike/Ped? 0
• Tue 29: Today’s Headlines 6
• Mon 28: Vacca Committee Passes DOT Public Review Bills With Friendly Amendments 3
• Mon 28: Awaiting NYPD Checkpoints for NYC’s Most Dangerous Streets 11
• Mon 28: Getting Young People Back Into Cars Is Auto Industry Job #1 0
• Mon 28: Eyes on the Street: Washington Heights Gets Safe Greenway Connection 6
• Mon 28: This Week: Rally for Traffic Justice at NYPD HQ 1
• Mon 28: Can America Afford Not to Bike More? 0
• Mon 28: Today’s Headlines 17
• Wed 23: Unsolicited Personal Image Advice for Jennifer Lopez: Film a Bike Ad 16
• Wed 23: HUD Awards Bring “Bittersweet” End to Sustainability Program 0
• Wed 23: Will DCP Withstand the Real Estate Lobby Assault on Parking Maximums? 5
• Wed 23: Mapping the Fatal Consequences of Automobile Addiction 0
• Wed 23: St. Louis County: We Don’t Build Bike Lanes Because No One Bikes 0
• Wed 23: Today’s Headlines 14
• Tue 22: “The Best Is Yet To Come” at Newly Car-Free New Lots Triangle 8
• Tue 22: Transit Deserts Leave New Yorkers Thirsting for Access to Jobs 8
• Tue 22: Pedestrian Burdens: Sidewalk Atrocities in Bensonhurst, LIC, and Vinegar Hill 2
• Tue 22: What Will the Senate Bill’s Transit Section Look Like? 0
• Tue 22: Bye Bye Curbs: Safer Streets in the UK Mix Cars and People 0
• Tue 22: Today’s Headlines 10
• Mon 21: Manhattan CB 2 Votes Unanimously for Hudson Street Bike Lane Upgrade 13
• Mon 21: To Make Progress on Transportation Policy, Consistent Leadership Matters 2
• Mon 21: Neighborhood Slow Zone Opens in Claremont, Perhaps the First of Many 11
• Mon 21: Taking Stock of NYC Streets and Transit at Stringer’s Transpo Conference 2
• Mon 21: Good Transit Cities Pack Jobs Tightly Together 0
• Mon 21: Today’s Headlines 23
• Fri 18: Today’s Headlines 6
• Thu 17: Mark-Viverito: Misinformation Won’t Stop East Harlem Bike Lanes 32
• Thu 17: House GOP Previews Transpo + Oil Drilling Bill, Details to Come Later 0
• Thu 17: Thursday Job Market 0
• Thu 17: DOT Chief Claims Cuomo “Not Slowing Down Transit” on Tappan Zee 6
• Thu 17: Greater Cleveland in Denial About Its Downfall: Sprawl 0
• Thu 17: Today’s Headlines 13
• Wed 16: D.C. Planning Chief Urges New York City to Scrap Parking Minimums 2
• Wed 16: The NBBL Files: Weinshall and Steisel Manufactured Anti-Bike Coverage 19
• Wed 16: Queens Civic Leader Killed Walking to Community Board Transpo Meeting 20
• Wed 16: 2012 Transpo Budget: Sustainable Communities and HSR Out, TIGER In 0
• Wed 16: The High Cost of Cheap Roads 0
• Wed 16: Today’s Headlines 8
• Tue 15: Two Days Until the Annual Benefit for Streetsblog and Streetfilms 1
• Tue 15: TIGER III Requests Exceed Available Funding 27 to 1 0
• Tue 15: Shelly Won’t Say Where He Fell Off His Bike 11
• Tue 15: Mica Warns Boxer on Highway Trust Fund; House Plans Hearing on “Drill Bill” 0
• Tue 15: Graphed: How East Side Select Bus Service Cut Trip Times and Gained Riders 3
• Tue 15: More Evidence That Bike Facilities Are Good for Local Businesses 0
• Tue 15: Today’s Headlines 7
• Mon 14: Jazz Singer Daniela D’Ercole Killed Crossing Broadway Last Week 7
• Mon 14: Senate Bill May Weaken Smaller Metros, Empower State DOTs 0
• Mon 14: This Week: Fourth Ave, Prospect Park, Scott Stringer Conference 0
• Mon 14: Select Bus Service Boosted East Side Bus Ridership 9%; 34th Street Is Next 5
• Mon 14: Sheldon Silver Bruised While Biking Over Rough Pavement 19
• Mon 14: My NYC Biking Story: Dr. Janice Turner 0
• Mon 14: In Massachusetts, Driving Drunk, Getting Caught, Walking Away Scot Free 0
• Mon 14: Today’s Headlines 26
• Fri 11: Why Ed Rides 3
• Fri 11: Next Week: Fourth Avenue Task Force Talks Transportation 6
• Fri 11: Who Knew? Memphis on Track to Add 55 Miles of Bike Lanes in Just Two Years 0
• Fri 11: The Weekly Carnage 1
• Fri 11: Vacca: Want Safer Streets? Don’t Even Try to Join Your Community Board 16
• Fri 11: 34th Street Select Bus Service Launches This Sunday 1
• Fri 11: Unlicensed Driver Who Backed Over and Killed Yolanda Casal Fined $500 9
• Fri 11: Mexico City Activists Draw the Line With DIY Bike Lanes 0
• Fri 11: Meet the Rick Perry Donor Who Runs Texas DOT 0
• Fri 11: Today’s Headlines 26
• Thu 10: Pedestrian Burdens: Send Us Pics of the Parking Garages Killing Your Street 14
• Thu 10: The NBBL Files: PPW Foes Pursued Connections to Reverse Public Process 16
• Thu 10: More Election Results: Transit Wins Big 0
• Thu 10: Want to Sell Voters on Transit? Keep It Simple 0
• Thu 10: Today’s Headlines 18
• Wed 9: You Can Finally Walk to Grand Army Plaza Without Fear 14
• Wed 9: Two-Year Transpo Bill Moves on to Full Senate Without Bike/Ped Protections 0
• Wed 9: West Side Greenway Cyclist Struck by Cab Driver Last Saturday 3
• Wed 9: Is Car-Crushing Mayor Arturas Zuokas on the Prowl in New York? 5
• Wed 9: CB 2 Committee Endorses Parking-Protected Hudson St. Bike Lane 7
• Wed 9: Raleigh-Durham Voters Give Go-Ahead to Light Rail Plans 0
• Wed 9: Today’s Headlines 11
• Tue 8: Mica Drops Amtrak Privatization Plan in Call for Northeast Corridor HSR 0
• Tue 8: Nine Days Until the Annual Benefit for Streetsblog and Streetfilms 0
• Tue 8: The Hypocrisy of Chrysler’s “Imported from Detroit” Campaign 0
• Tue 8: At Last, a Times Critic Gets It: NYC Is Best Absorbed From a Bike 5
• Tue 8: Brownsville Residents Push For Neighborhood’s First Bike Lanes 12
• Tue 8: Saving the Farm: The Fight to Keep Sprawl From Engulfing Rural America 0
• Tue 8: Today’s Headlines 14
• Mon 7: NYC DOT to Roll Out Smart Parking Tech in 2012 11
• Mon 7: Senate’s Draft Transpo Bill Weakens Bike-Ped Programs 0
• Mon 7: Crucial Details Missing in NYPD Account of Crash That Killed Theauther Love 4
• Mon 7: This Week: Hudson St. Bikeway, Community Board Join-Up 5
• Mon 7: FRA Safety Regs Add Costs, Not Safety, to American Rail 0
• Mon 7: Today’s Headlines 6
• Fri 4: New Porsche Goes From Zero to 15 in 30 Seconds 3
• Fri 4: Coming Soon: Super-Partisan “Oil-For-Infrastructure” Transpo Bill 0
• Fri 4: The Weekly Carnage 2
• Fri 4: City Council Votes to Increase Oversight of Bike Lane Removal 8
• Fri 4: Two Infrastructure Jobs Bills Die in Senate 0
• Fri 4: Report: “Cash for Clunkers” Was a Lemon 0
• Fri 4: Today’s Headlines 17
• Thu 3: City Council Signs Off on Residential Parking Permits, Next Stop Albany 5
• Thu 3: Self-Reliance Grows in the Utrecht Traffic Garden 0
• Thu 3: CB 8 Committee Warms to Bike-Share, Sets Aside Bike Licenses 2
• Thu 3: Ad Nauseam Double Feature: Why Is the Auto Industry Now Advertising Bikes? 14
• Thu 3: Thursday Job Market 0
• Thu 3: Putting the Price of California HSR in Perspective 0
• Thu 3: Today’s Headlines 16
• Wed 2: Council Committee Endorses Residential Parking Permits Over DOT Objections 32
• Wed 2: DOT Launches Walk-to-School Program, Koch Calls Bike Lanes “Glorious” 1
• Wed 2: Texas Sprawl Builders Funneled Taxpayer $ to Highway That Enriched Them 0
• Wed 2: DCP’s Sheridan Teardown Analysis Based on More Than Just Traffic 2
• Wed 2: How Will the House Answer the Senate’s Transportation Funding Bill? 0
• Wed 2: What Should James Vacca’s Pet Peeve Committee Tackle Next? 18
• Wed 2: Fifteen Is Serene: DC Considers 15 MPH Speed Limits 0
• Wed 2: Today’s Headlines 9
• Tue 1: Manhattan Borough Board Endorses Speed Enforcement Cameras 2
• Tue 1: Feds Put Off Issuing New Trucking Safety Rules 0
• Tue 1: New York Can’t Afford to Build a Tappan Zee Bridge With No Transit 6
• Tue 1: Bike/Ped Funding Intact as Senate Rejects Rand Paul’s Amendment 0
• Tue 1: Is City Living the Secret to Happiness? 0
• Tue 1: Today’s Headlines 2