Aaron Naparstek
Aaron Naparstek is the founder and former editor-in-chief of Streetsblog. He is the author of Honku: The Zen Antidote for Road Rage, a book of humorous haiku poetry inspired by the unique brand of motorist sociopathy observed from his apartment window. Naparstek lives in Brooklyn with his wife and two sons. He is a founder of the Park Slope Neighbors community group and an organizer of the Grand Army Plaza Coalition. You can find more of his work here: http://www.naparstek.com.
aaron@naparstek.com
Posts by Aaron
2011
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Jan 26:
Some Great Story Ideas for New York Post Reporter John Doyle
2010
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Jan 19:
Naparstek Steps Down as Editor-in-Chief of Streetsblog
2009
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Oct 05:
NYPD’s Bedford Avenue Circular Saw Massacre Caught on Tape
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Oct 05:
Today’s Headlines
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Oct 02:
Today’s Headlines
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Sep 28:
On Tuesday Your Vote is Really Going to Count
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Sep 14:
New Yorkers: Tomorrow Your Vote Really Counts!
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Aug 07:
Today’s Headlines
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Jun 26:
The House Is Debating Its Climate Legislation Right Now [Updated]
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Jun 26:
Today’s Headlines
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Jun 25:
Live Webcast: Environment & Public Works Committee Hearing
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Jun 25:
Nothing Says Tranquility Like the Hum of a Huge Diesel Engine
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Jun 23:
DOT Responds to Park Slope Bike Lane Uprising With Thermoplast Surge
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Jun 11:
Tweeting Live from the Congress for the New Urbanism in Denver
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Jun 09:
Introducing Streetsblog Capitol Hill
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Jun 05:
Save the Tour de Brooklyn! Free Beer!
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May 28:
Google Bike Parking
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May 26:
The Crossroads of the World Goes Car-Free
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May 24:
Car-Free Space Is an Instant Hit on Broadway
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May 21:
Sean Sweeney Redefines “T.A. StreetBeat”
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May 20:
On TV Tonight…
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May 20:
Should I Wear a Helmet Today?
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May 15:
Welcome Elana Schor, Streetsblog’s New National Reporter
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May 14:
LaHood to Streetsblog: No, I’m Not Changing the Name of My Blog
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May 06:
Will Barbara Boxer Stand Up for Sustainable Transportation?
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Apr 28:
Livable Streets Initiative Spring Event: You’re Invited!
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Apr 20:
Open Source Your Streets Tonight on 91.1 FM, 7pm
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Mar 27:
The Day After
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Mar 20:
Union Street Becomes a “Secret Garden”
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Mar 19:
Schluffing or Dorklocross?
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Mar 18:
The Four Stooges
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Mar 17:
The State Senate’s MTA Financing Plan Doesn’t Add Up
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Mar 16:
Kruger: MTA Funding Plan Will Be “So Outside the Box.”
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Mar 16:
Talking Traffic Justice With Leslie Crocker Snyder
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Mar 12:
We’re Hiring: Cover the Capitol for Streetsblog
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Mar 12:
MTA Funding and Bike-Ped Relations on Brian Lehrer
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Mar 02:
Next American City Invites You to Their Spring Party, Thursday
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Feb 26:
More Detail on NYC’s Car-Free Broadway Plan
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Feb 26:
Bloomberg Puts Forward a Bold, Transformative New Vision for Broadway
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Feb 25:
Welcome to Our New Design
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Feb 24:
Change is Coming to Streetsblog and the Livable Streets Network
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Feb 13:
Livable Streets Leaders Are NY’s Most Beautiful Politicos
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Feb 11:
Teresa Toro is Back in the Saddle at Community Board 1
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Feb 03:
Install a Widget. Build a Movement.
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Feb 03:
Stimulus + Mass Transit = Opportunity
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Feb 02:
Wanted: A New Traffic Boss for New York City
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Jan 21:
The Last Thing This Nation Needs
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Jan 16:
BYO Bike Lane
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Jan 13:
New York City Wins the 2009 Sustainable Transport Award
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Jan 08:
Streetsblog San Francisco is Online!
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Jan 07:
Metro-North Makes Its M-7 Train Cars More Bike-Friendly
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Jan 06:
Brennan Center: Albany’s “Still Broken”
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Jan 02:
The 2008 Streetsie Awards, Part 5
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Jan 01:
The 2008 Streetsie Awards, Part 4
2008
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Dec 31:
The 2008 Streetsie Awards, Part 3
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Dec 30:
The 2008 Streetsie Awards, Part 2
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Dec 29:
The 2008 Streetsie Awards, Part 1
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Dec 24:
Stay Tuned for the 2008 Streetsies…
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Dec 24:
The Livable Streets Backlash Claims a Victim at Brooklyn’s CB1
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Dec 24:
Today’s Headlines
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Dec 18:
Same.gov: A Transportation Secretary Who’s Hard to Believe In
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Dec 17:
Done Deal: Obama Picks LaHood as Transpo Secretary
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Dec 16:
Cartoon Tuesday: Dinosaurs
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Dec 16:
Channel 13 Poll: Tolls on the East River Bridges?
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Dec 15:
Get Ready for Streetsblog San Francisco
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Dec 12:
LSN Member of the Week: Mr. Theo
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Dec 08:
Alan Gerson Wants Greater “Review” of DOT Bike Safety Plans
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Dec 08:
Weiner, Ravitch and Gridlock Sam on Lehrer This Morning
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Nov 21:
Merge
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Nov 20:
Dingell Wanes as Waxman Takes Over Energy and Commerce
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Nov 05:
Obamites: “Yes We Can!” NYPD: “Traffic First”
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Oct 31:
Newt Gingrich: I Vant to Suck Your Oil
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Oct 23:
Four More Years
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Oct 23:
Shaping the 2009 Transpo Debate: Rockefeller Foundation’s Nick Turner
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Oct 06:
Anyone Biking Over the Brooklyn Bridge With a Camera This Evening?
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Sep 29:
Gasoline-Starved Atlantans Twitter for Gallons
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Sep 29:
Jim Kunstler on the Bail Out and What’s Next
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Sep 19:
More Scenes from Park(ing) Day 2008 New York City
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Sep 17:
Culture War on Wheels
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Sep 03:
Pin it on Shelly!
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Sep 02:
Cartoon Tuesday: Back to School
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Aug 27:
Is NYC’s “Sustainable Streets” Plan a Communist Plot?
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Aug 26:
Cartoon Tuesday: Conventional Wisdom
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Aug 26:
Budnick v. Anderson on “Talk of the Nation” This Afternoon
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Aug 25:
Sadik-Khan to Discuss Transpo Funding at the Democratic Convention
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Aug 08:
Orioles Pitcher Throws a High Hard One at Car Commuting
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Aug 07:
Juan Valdez and Jay-Z Invite New Yorkers to Take to the Streets
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Aug 06:
Energy Policy Straight Talk From Elizabeth Kolbert
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Aug 05:
Williamsburg Walks in the Rain
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Aug 01:
Separated Bike Path Isn’t Gay Enough for CB4
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Jul 29:
Cartoon Tuesday: The Elegant Simplicity of the Free Market
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Jul 29:
Summer Streets
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Jul 29:
The U.S. Wants to “Borrow” From Transit to Pay for Highways
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Jul 29:
“Traffic” Author Tom Vanderbilt on Leonard Lopate Today at Noon
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Jul 29:
Today’s Headlines
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Jul 28:
Make Queens Boulevard a Complete Street
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Jul 25:
$36,000,000,000 for Corn. $0 for Transit.
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Jul 25:
The Pentagon Burns 395,000 Barrels of Oil Per Day
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Jul 24:
Wanted: A Progressive DOT Director for Washington D.C.
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Jul 23:
Livable Streets Projects Getting Hung Up in Budget Bureaucracy?
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Jul 23:
Robert Novak Cited in Possible Hit-and-Run
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Jul 23:
Print This
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Jul 22:
Evaluating Summer Streets
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Jul 22:
Forbes Rates North America’s Most Bike-Friendly Cities
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Jul 22:
Highway Funding: The Last Bastion of Socialism in America
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Jul 21:
Al Gore Connects the Dots
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Jul 21:
Auto Dealers, Parking Garages and, Well, Lots of Others Fund Shelly
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Jul 21:
Williamsburg Walks: Opening Up Bedford Avenue
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Jul 18:
Richard Florida: Decline of the Burbs is Not Just About Gas Prices
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Jul 18:
Is San Fran More Walkable Than NYC?
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Jul 18:
Tom Vanderbilt Ponders Motorist Sociopathy
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Jul 18:
Today’s Headlines
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Jul 17:
Touring the East Side Access Tunnel, Surrounded By Schist
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Jul 16:
Rising Demand for Transit Could Be a “Turning Point”
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Jul 16:
Williamsburg Walks: Volunteer Orientation Tonight
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Jul 16:
Crips and Bloods Feeling the Pinch of Rising Gas Prices?
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Jul 16:
New Bike Markings for North Greenpoint
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Jul 15:
Happy Birthday, Vélib
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Jul 14:
Et Tu, Mister Softee?
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Jun 25:
Want a New Public Plaza in Your Neighborhood? Apply Now.
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Jun 11:
Welcome to the Livable Streets Network
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Jun 10:
Streetsblog Will Be Offline Wednesday Morning
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Jun 05:
Get a Sneak Peak at Our Big Redesign and Give Your Feedback
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May 27:
Help Wanted: Identify the Best Livable Streets Blogs. $20/Hour.
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May 21:
Do Alternate Side Parking Rules Increase Traffic Congestion?
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May 20:
Chrysler: Let’s Ruin America!
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May 16:
Amsterdam? Copenhagen? Nope: NYC.
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May 15:
Revenge of the Free Riders
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May 15:
It’s Man Vs. Car in NYC and Tim Robbins is “The Rectifier”
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May 14:
Pricing Foe Hakeem Jeffries Demands G Train Service Increase
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May 13:
Ken Coughlin, Leading Car-Free Park Activist, Suffers Heart Attack
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May 12:
Cleveland Indians Ace Cliff Lee: The Southpaw Straphanger
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May 05:
Feds Launch New Pedestrian Safety Program
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May 05:
Sign a Petition to Clinton and McCain at GasTaxScam.com
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Apr 29:
Chicago Gets NYC’s Congestion Pricing Money
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Apr 17:
Looking for a New State Legislator? Try Craigslist.
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Apr 15:
Après Congestion Pricing, It’s Time to Look at the Paris Model
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Apr 15:
Today’s Headlines
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Apr 07:
Keep Hope Alive?
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Apr 07:
With Congestion Pricing Dead, a $17 Billion Transit Deficit Looms
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Apr 04:
If Congestion Pricing Fails, Rest Assured, There’s Always Plan B
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Apr 03:
Ad Nauseam: State Farm on the Humiliation of Biking to Work
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Apr 02:
Brodsky Presents Dems With a Choice: God’s Love or Al D’Amato
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Apr 02:
We Win!!!… a Trip to Albany?
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Apr 01:
NY1 Poll: How do You Want Your Legislator to Vote?
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Mar 27:
Robots Against Congestion Pricing
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Mar 27:
Queens Pols Rally to Keep Using Gioia’s District as Their Doormat
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Mar 24:
Rev. Billy Preaches Bikes & Transit at the NYC Auto Show
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Mar 14:
The Onion: Feds Unveil $270 Billion Program for Bad Drivers
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Mar 13:
London’s Very Cool “Look Out for Cyclists” Ad
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Mar 12:
Details of the Mayor’s Residential Parking Permit Proposal
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Mar 12:
Mayor Bloomberg Announces New Residential Parking Program
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Mar 12:
Hit by a Car While Biking? Don’t Waste the NYPD’s Time
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Mar 11:
Fidler on the Sidewalk
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Mar 11:
Traffic Jam on a Petri Dish
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Mar 07:
Mime Threat Overshadows Car-Free Prince Street Proposal
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Mar 06:
Is an NYPD Bike Crackdown Underway?
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Mar 06:
Lessons from Bogotá, Part III (9:58)
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Mar 06:
Today’s Headlines
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Mar 03:
Introducing Streetsblog Los Angeles
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Feb 29:
Hakeem Jeffries Stands With Westchester on Congestion Pricing
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Feb 28:
Streetfilms: Excuses
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Feb 27:
The Definition of Automobile Dependence
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Feb 22:
Citywide Ferry Service Could Cost $100M Annually
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Feb 22:
Today’s McMansions, Tomorrow’s Tenements
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Feb 21:
Help Wanted: Streetswiki Writing Talent
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Feb 20:
Congestion Pricing Populist Soundbite Contest
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Feb 20:
Ideas Competition for Brooklyn’s Grandest Plaza
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Feb 20:
Missing: Urban Policy in the Presidential Campaign
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Feb 19:
Today’s Headlines
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Feb 13:
Brodsku
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Feb 12:
Quinn Calls for Comprehensive Citywide Ferry Service
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Feb 12:
London Imposes $50 Guzzler Fee on SUVs and Lux Roadsters
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Feb 11:
Supermodels Demand an Auto-Free New York
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Feb 11:
Has Richard Brodsky Ever Paid a Subway Fare?
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Feb 08:
State Senator’s Car is Towed During Congestion Pricing Meeting
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Feb 07:
Tale of Two Cities: Bicycling in Chicago and Los Angeles
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Feb 05:
Reinventing Grand Army Plaza on Lopate Tomorrow
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Feb 05:
Look Who’s Pledged to be an Obama Delegate…
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Feb 05:
Who is the Livable Streets Candidate?
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Jan 31:
Commission Approves Pricing. Next Stop: City Council
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Jan 31:
Congestion Commission Recommendation: First Look
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Jan 31:
Pricing Recs to Include Residential Parking Permits
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Jan 25:
Proof That Congestion Pricing Supporters Do Exist in Queens
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Jan 24:
Testify! Public Hearings on Congestion Pricing Tonight
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Jan 24:
Next Monday: How You Can Transform New York City Streets
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Jan 22:
Masdar: Arabic for Chutzpah?
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Jan 22:
Queens Parking Workshop Turns to Talk of Motorist “Rights”
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Jan 18:
Gridlock Sam: Mayor’s Placard Reduction Plan is Step One of Ten
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Jan 17:
NYPD Tow Pound is Still a Major Source of Greenway Danger
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Jan 14:
Our Improved Calendar and Upcoming Events
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Jan 14:
Who Are You Nominating for the 2008 Jane Jacobs Medal?
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Jan 11:
Hans Monderman: In Memoriam
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Jan 11:
Another New Bike Shelter
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Jan 11:
Brodsky Taxes Milk! Toll Plazas Will be Named After Marc Shaw!
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Jan 09:
How About Two Bike Lanes Per Street?
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Jan 08:
Hans Monderman, Engineer of Livable Streets, 1947-2008
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Jan 08:
What is Your Idea for Grand Army Plaza?
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Jan 08:
At P.S. 161 in Harlem the Sidewalk is the Parking Lot
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Jan 08:
Nature’s Traffic Count
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Jan 08:
Street Memorial Riders Urge City Hall to Tame Traffic Now
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Jan 07:
Weingarten: “Teachers Are Not Abusers of Parking Permits”
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Jan 04:
A Year After Eric Ng’s Death, Greenway Hazards Remain Unfixed
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Jan 04:
Half Moon Over the Brooklyn Bridge
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Jan 04:
Today’s Headlines
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Jan 03:
City Hall to Reduce Parking Placards 20% and Centralize Control
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Jan 03:
Kitty Justice: The Thai Solution for Police Parking Placard Abuse
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Jan 03:
Today’s Headlines
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Jan 02:
Holiday Headlines
2007
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Dec 25:
The Streetsies
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Dec 24:
Merry Gridlock!
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Dec 21:
Stay Tuned for the 2007 Streetsies
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Dec 21:
Merry Christmas Chinatown
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Dec 21:
Donald Shoup Plays With Parking Fees and Matchbox Cars
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Dec 19:
Highlights of Monday’s Traffic Commission Meeting
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Dec 19:
Shocker: MTA Board Approves Fare Hike
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Dec 19:
Eyes on the Street: Snow Day
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Dec 17:
Janette Sadik-Khan: A Reason to Love NYC in 2007
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Dec 17:
New Spin: Save the Mayor’s Congestion Plan by Modifying It
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Dec 14:
Running the Christmas Tree Gauntlet
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Dec 13:
Highlights of the “Equal Tolls, Unequal Access” Discussion
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Dec 13:
Reinventing Grand Army Plaza: What Are Your Ideas?
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Dec 13:
Is the Mayor Reading Streetsblog on His Bloomberg Terminal?
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Dec 13:
Unlike the Knicks, “New York’s Team” Takes the Subway to Work
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Dec 12:
Shoup Dogg, Parking Policy Cult Hero, Fills Fordham Auditorium
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Dec 12:
Blinding Headlights Make Part of West Side Greenway Unusable
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Dec 11:
Highlights of Yesterday’s Traffic Commission Meeting
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Dec 11:
NYC Car Commuters Are Wealthier and Cops All Drive to Work
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Dec 11:
New Grand Army Plaza Concept is “Brilliantly Obvious”
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Dec 11:
Manhattan Bridge Bike & Ped Improvements Nearing Completion
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Dec 11:
Today’s Headlines
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Dec 10:
This Holiday Season London’s Streets Are “Absolutely Jammed”
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Dec 10:
Is America Finally Getting Interested in Passenger Rail?
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Dec 10:
More Boring Photos
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Dec 10:
Radiohead: A Rock Band With a Firm Grasp of Urban Planning
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Dec 10:
Shoup on Lehrer
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Dec 10:
Today’s Headlines
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Dec 07:
Inom Tullarna: The Ancient Roots of Congestion Pricing
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Dec 06:
New York Times Employees Say Renzo Forgot the Bike Parking
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Dec 05:
Chinatown Placard Abusers Get the Hook
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Dec 04:
Crashstat 2.0 Reveals NYC’S Most Dangerous Intersections
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Dec 03:
This is the Pedestrian Refuge Area That CB8 Refused to Protect
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Nov 30:
MTA Chief Lee Sander Gets Megamodal
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Nov 29:
NYC’s “Flawed” Traffic Plan Brought to You by… Toyota
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Nov 29:
Compromise “Ruled the Day” at Congestion Pricing Hearings
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Nov 28:
$115 $230 Summons for NASCAR Driver #19 Elliott Sadler
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Nov 28:
T.A. Responds to Fidler’s Tax’n'Tunnel Pipe Dream
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Nov 28:
New Bleecker Bike Lane Already Blocked by Parked Cars
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Nov 28:
NYC.gov Holiday Traffic Plan Makes Way for NASCAR
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Nov 27:
NYPD Emerges as New Focus for NYC’s Livable Streets Movement
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Nov 26:
TSTC.org Would Be More Thankful If…
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Nov 19:
NYC Voters Oppose Pricing Unless it Helps Prevent a Fare Hike
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Nov 19:
Alan Durning’s “Year of Living Carlessly” and “Bicycle Neglect”
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Nov 19:
Wall Street Journal Declares Peak Oil No Longer a “Fringe” Idea
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Nov 19:
Today’s Headlines
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Nov 15:
30 Firms Submit Proposals for NYC’s Congestion Pricing System
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Nov 15:
Prince Street Bike Lane Has Arrived
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Nov 14:
Brian Ketcham Proposes a “Simpler, Cheaper Traffic Fix”
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Nov 13:
Weiner Imagines Paying for His Traffic Plan With a Gas Tax Raise
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Nov 13:
You Can be a Streetsblog Contributor Too
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Nov 12:
DOT Rolls Out Fort Greene Bike Lanes & Traffic-Calming
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Nov 12:
Congestion Pricing Will Make You Happy
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Nov 12:
Nasty Newsrack Photo Contest Finalists
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Nov 09:
MTA Chief Links Congestion Pricing to Fare Hike… or Not
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Nov 09:
Take the NYC Bike Parking Survey
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Nov 09:
Pedestrians Fight Back in Athens, Greece
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Nov 08:
DOT Rolls Out the New Lower Manhattan Crosstown Bike Route
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Nov 08:
Streetsblog Index
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Nov 08:
Rally at City Hall for Pedestrian Safety Legislation, 12:45 Today
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Nov 07:
StreetFilms: Upper West Side Streets Renaissance With Jan Gehl
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Nov 06:
Staten Islanders Keeping an Open Mind on Congestion Pricing
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Nov 06:
The Trafficist
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Nov 06:
Upper West Side Renaissance on WNYC
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Nov 06:
Envisioning an Upper West Side Streets Renaissance
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Nov 06:
Tune in to Brian Lehrer at 10:40am, WNYC, 93.9 FM
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Nov 05:
Gridlock Sam’s Compromise Plan
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Nov 05:
Gehl on Wheels
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Nov 05:
Today’s Headlines
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Nov 02:
“A Perverse Allocation of Public Space on the Upper West Side”
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Nov 02:
Profiles in Discouragement: Pols Defend Traffic Status Quo
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Nov 02:
The Intermediate Stage Between Humans and Pure Energy
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Nov 02:
Fact Check: Congestion Pricing is Not a “Regressive Tax”
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Nov 02:
Bloomberg Declares Support for a National Carbon Tax
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Nov 02:
Today’s Headlines
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Nov 01:
Low Turnout But Surprising Support at Bronx Congestion Hearing
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Nov 01:
Lew Fidler’s “9 CARAT STONE” Traffic Plan Arrives
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Nov 01:
Ped Struck as Cab Runs Into Storefront at 53rd and Madison
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Nov 01:
Today’s Headlines
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Oct 31:
Celebrating Livable Streets on the Day of the Dead
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Oct 31:
Congestion Pricing Supporters Speak Up in Queens
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Oct 31:
Happy Halloween From Clarence the Purple Traffic Wizard
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Oct 31:
RSVP Today to Re-Imagine Manhattan’s Upper West Side
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Oct 31:
Jan Gehl: Half of Manhattan Trips Could be Done by Bike
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Oct 31:
Bloomberg Visits the Bronx. Dinowitz Anti-Pricing Rally Fizzles.
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Oct 31:
Today’s Headlines
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Oct 30:
The M23 Bus Earns the 2007 Pokey Award
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Oct 30:
Today’s Headlines
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Oct 29:
The Bogotá Transformation: Vision and Political Will
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Oct 29:
Bruno: “The people who travel around are taxed enough.”
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Oct 29:
Correcting Thursday’s MTA Bike Seizure Correction
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Oct 29:
Today’s Headlines
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Oct 26:
The Weekly Carnage
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Oct 25:
MTA: Not Stealing Bikes. Just Following the Rules.
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Oct 24:
Senator Duane Takes a Swipe at DOT for 9th Ave. Bike Lane
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Oct 24:
Now the MTA is Stealing Bikes in Williamsburg
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Oct 18:
Tykes on Bikes
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Oct 18:
Who is Richard Brodsky?
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Oct 18:
Rangers New Center is Happy to Be Back on His Bike
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Oct 15:
Idle Hands
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Oct 12:
Here is the Keep NYC Congestion Tax Free Report
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Oct 12:
Anti-Congestion Pricing Group Suggests Alternatives
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Oct 11:
Caption Contest: MTA Public Outreach Strategy
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Oct 11:
Bronx Traffic Relief Forum Tonight, 7:30pm, Riverdale Temple
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Oct 10:
Kunstler: Parking Plans Are Based on “Faulty Assumptions”
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Oct 10:
Is Transportation Reform Possible When the Cops Don’t Care?
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Oct 09:
Truck Drivers Confusing New Cycle Track for Unloading Zone
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Oct 09:
Today’s Headlines
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Oct 08:
MTA Says it Needs More Money for Congestion Pricing
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Oct 08:
1,200 Pack Town Hall for “How New Yorkers Ride Bikes”
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Oct 05:
Congestion Pricing Should be Attached to Parking Reform
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Oct 04:
GAPCo Wins Design Trust Fellowship
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Oct 04:
A Ride Down NYC’s “Street of the Future”
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Oct 03:
Pricing Friends and Foes Find Common Ground in Shoup
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Oct 03:
New Ninth Avenue Separated Bike Path is Already in Place
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Oct 02:
DOT Minds the GAP
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Oct 02:
Fresh Direct Responds to Environmental Critics
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Oct 02:
MTA Chief Lee Sander Talks Congestion Pricing in Queens
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Oct 02:
Today’s Headlines
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Oct 01:
Today’s Headlines
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Sep 28:
Portland Sees Explosive Growth in Bicycling
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Sep 27:
Meat Market Plaza is Open for Business
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Sep 27:
More Park(ing) Day: San Fran Rolls Out the Parkcycle
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Sep 26:
Traffic Congestion Mitigation Commission Opens for Business
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Sep 25:
Traffic Mitigation Commission Meeting Pre-Spin
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Sep 25:
New York City Ate My Bicycle
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Sep 25:
Today’s Headlines
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Sep 24:
If Cyclists Think They’ve Got it Bad in NYC, Check Out L.A.
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Sep 24:
StreetFilms: Park(ing) Day 2007
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Sep 21:
Upper West Side Livable Streets Advocates: Mark Your Calendar
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Sep 21:
Myrtle Ave. Parking Spot Becomes a Park and Classroom
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Sep 21:
Why is There a Picnic in My Parking Spot?
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Sep 20:
NYC Gets Its First-Ever Physically-Separated Bike Path
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Sep 20:
Congestion Pricing Q&A With Rohit Aggarwala, Part 4
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Sep 19:
Congestion Pricing Q&A With Rohit Aggarwala, Part 3
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Sep 18:
Congestion Pricing Q&A With Rohit Aggarwala, Part 2
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Sep 17:
Congestion Pricing Q&A With Rohit Aggarwala, Part 1
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Sep 14:
German Town Chooses Human Interaction Over Traffic Signals
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Sep 14:
D.C. to Establish Bike Parking Requirements
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Sep 14:
Parking Enforcement is the Killer App
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Sep 12:
Gridlock Sam Offers Four Ideas to Cut Traffic Congestion
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Sep 12:
The Transportation Alternatives Century Ride 2007
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Sep 11:
Meeting Tonight: Help Get More Bike Parking for SoHo
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Sep 11:
Useful Idiots
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Sep 11:
Parking Revenue Declining, London Borough Lures Back Drivers
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Sep 10:
Nasty, Personal, Elitist and Not a Bronxite
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Sep 07:
Pedestrian Safety Tips & Anti-Pricing Talking Points From AAA
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Sep 07:
Give Me Traffic Congestion or Give Me Death
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Sep 06:
Bicycles Are the New NYC “It Girl” Fashion Accessory
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Sep 06:
On Behalf of 5.2% of His Constituents, Dinowitz Opposes Pricing
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Sep 06:
Today’s Headlines
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Sep 04:
Infinite Jest
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Sep 04:
Queens Pedestrian Safety Fixes Move Ahead Despite Opposition
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Aug 31:
Happy Labor Day Weekend
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Aug 31:
City Promises $5M in Ped Safety Improvements at Mural Opening
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Aug 29:
Trek: A Bike Maker Flexes Some Advocacy Muscle
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Aug 29:
Brooklyn Traffic Calming Mural Unveiled
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Aug 28:
Celebrating a Car-Free Afternoon In Prospect Park
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Aug 28:
Queens Leaders Fight Safety Fixes for Fatal School Crossing
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Aug 24:
First-Ever Electronic Bus Status Display Installed in Manhattan
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Aug 24:
DOT Seeks Assistant Commissioner for Congestion Pricing
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Aug 24:
Survey Finds That Buffered Bike Lanes Are Better
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Aug 24:
Lew Fidler Laments Impending Loss of Parking Permit
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Aug 24:
Today’s Headlines
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Aug 15:
A Brooklyn Parking Lot Becomes a Neighborhood “Living Room”
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Aug 14:
Video Shows Dangers of Upper East Side Bike Plan
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Aug 14:
Feds to NYC: “Get on the Bus”
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Aug 14:
Details of the US DOT’s $354.5 Million Grant to NYC
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Aug 14:
Responses to $354 Million Federal Congestion Pricing Grant
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Aug 14:
US DOT Gives NYC $354 Million for Congestion Pricing Plan
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Aug 13:
Tonight: Traffic-Calming Mural Preview & Fundraiser
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Aug 13:
Commish Benepe Gently Reminds “Parkies” to Drive Safely
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Aug 13:
What Up, G?
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Aug 13:
Make That 21 Council Members in Favor of Pricing
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Aug 13:
More on Rep. Patrick McHenry
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Aug 10:
In the Shadow of the Queensboro Bridge
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Aug 10:
City Launches “Public Plaza Initiative” at DUMBO Pocket Park
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Aug 09:
Paint a Parking Lot, Put up a Paradise
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Aug 08:
The Storm of ’07 and the Commute of 8/8
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Aug 08:
Open Thread: How Was Your Commute This Morning?
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Aug 08:
When a Car Does the Killing, It’s Always an “Accident.”
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Aug 08:
Today’s Headlines
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Aug 07:
Hello, Dolly!
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Aug 07:
City Building Opens New Indoor Bike Parking Facility
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Aug 07:
Congestion Pricing Questions the Mayor Will Need to Answer
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Aug 07:
Today’s Headlines
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Aug 06:
New Blog Focuses on Tearing Down the “Highway to Nowhere”
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Aug 06:
20 City Council Members Support or Lean Towards Pricing
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Aug 06:
Parks Dept. Confirms New Employee Parking Policy
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Aug 06:
Central Park No Longer a Parking Lot for City Employees
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Aug 06:
Today’s Headlines
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Aug 03:
Grist: NYC is Not One of the World’s Greenest Cities
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Aug 03:
Manhattan Bridge Bikeway to Reopen on Monday
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Aug 03:
Today’s Headlines
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Aug 02:
Tonight: Park(ing) Day Planning Meeting
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Aug 02:
Today’s Headlines
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Aug 01:
Congestion Pricing Returns to Stockholm
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Aug 01:
Fear and Loathing on the Upper East Side
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Aug 01:
Meatpacking Plaza Update
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Aug 01:
August 1 Congestion Pricing Deadline Has Been Met
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Aug 01:
Mayor Bloomberg’s Morning Commute
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Aug 01:
August 1: The Mayor Shall Submit the Traffic Mitigation Plan
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Jul 31:
Official Statement on Central Park Car-Free Hours Increase
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Jul 31:
Today’s Headlines
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Jul 30:
DOT Expands Car-Free Time in Central Park by One Hour
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Jul 30:
Parking Meters: The Congestion Pricing Controversy of 1932
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Jul 30:
Sadik-Khan: Many Initiatives Are Under Way…
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Jul 30:
Today’s Headlines
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Jul 27:
Today’s Headlines
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Jul 26:
Congestion Pricing Process Moves Forward in Albany
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Jul 26:
Smith Street Zombie Invasion?
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Jul 26:
French Revolution
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Jul 26:
Count SUVs for the Brian Lehrer Show Today
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Jul 26:
Today’s Headlines
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Jul 25:
Accidents Halved As Street is Stripped of ‘Safety’ Features
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Jul 25:
NYC Government Office Cracks Down on Indoor Bike Parking
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Jul 25:
Ninth Ave. and 14th Street Redesign Update
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Jul 25:
4:00pm Gridlock at the 86th Street Boundary
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Jul 25:
Welcome to Davis, California: A Bicycle Friendly Town
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Jul 25:
Today’s Headlines
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Jul 24:
Congestion Pricing Bill, Take 3.
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Jul 24:
Here is the State Senate’s Congestion Pricing Bill
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Jul 24:
Microbuses and Bike Sharing: The New Parisian Street Scene
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Jul 24:
Reconnecting Grand Army Plaza
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Jul 24:
Today’s Headlines
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Jul 23:
Senator in Gridlocked Brooklyn District Has Doubts About Pricing
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Jul 23:
Crain’s: Congestion Pricing Approval is a “Near Certainty”
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Jul 23:
Today’s Headlines
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Jul 19:
Congestion Pricing: Here’s the Deal
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Jul 19:
Lots of Quotes, Few Details on Congestion Pricing Deal
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Jul 19:
Some Sort of Congestion Pricing Deal is Done
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Jul 19:
CB8 Shoots Down Upper East Side Crosstown Bike Route Plan
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Jul 19:
Today’s Headlines
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Jul 18:
NYC’s Greenest Building Cracks Down on Bikes (Updated)
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Jul 18:
Bike-Sharing in Berlin
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Jul 18:
The London Model is Dead. Time to Look at Paris.
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Jul 18:
Who Better Represented “the Little Guy” in the Pricing Debate?
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Jul 18:
Today’s Headlines
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Jul 17:
Parking Reform: Reduce Congestion & Raise Money Minus Albany
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Jul 17:
Bloomberg: NYC is Poorer Today Thanks to Albany Inaction
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Jul 17:
Brodsky Killed Congestion Pricing But We Hurt His Feelings
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Jul 17:
Statement from Mayor Bloomberg on Congestion Pricing Failure
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Jul 17:
The Introduction of a New Order of Things
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Jul 17:
Today’s Headlines
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Jul 16:
Park(ing) Day is Coming
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Jul 16:
State Assembly Meeting in Manhattan to Talk Congestion Pricing
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Jul 16:
Today’s Headlines
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Jul 13:
How Do Bike Seizures Fit Into Bloomberg’s “Green Plan”
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Jul 13:
DOT Media Blitz Forthcoming
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Jul 13:
BRT Moving Ahead but City Pushes Back the Timeline a Bit
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Jul 13:
Dollars for Democracy on Brian Lehrer Today
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Jul 13:
Today’s Headlines
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Jul 12:
Odds and Ends
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Jul 12:
Details of Proposed Bus Service Expansion
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Jul 12:
Report: New Parks Dept. Policy to Clip Locks and Seize Bikes
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Jul 12:
Construction of Piazza de Meatpacking is Underway
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Jul 12:
New High-Visibility Bike Lanes in Brooklyn
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Jul 12:
An NYC First: On-Street Parking Spaces Replaced by Bike Racks
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Jul 12:
Today’s Headlines
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Jul 11:
It’s Alive. It’s Dead. It’s Three Men in a Room!
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Jul 11:
London Releases Its Fifth Annual Congestion Pricing Study
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Jul 11:
Today’s Headlines
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Jul 10:
$300+ Million in Bus Improvements Held Hostage in Albany
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Jul 10:
Brodsky Represents NYC’s Wealthiest Car Commuters
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Jul 10:
McCaffrey: The Subway is Crowded. Let’s Keep it That Way.
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Jul 10:
Queens Legislator Offers Congestion Pricing Torpedo
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Jul 10:
StreetFilms Film Festival Tonight in the East Village
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Jul 10:
Brooklyn Merchants Fight for Parking Over Affordable Housing
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Jul 10:
Today’s Headlines
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Jul 09:
Bloomberg Stadium Foes Urge Silver to Support Pricing
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Jul 09:
If Albany Lawmakers Don’t Go Back to Work, NYC Loses
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Jul 09:
Richard Brodsky: Working for the Public or the Parking Industry?
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Jul 09:
Mayor and Assembly Headed to a Showdown Over Pricing
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Jul 09:
Today: Dueling Congestion Pricing Press Events
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Jul 09:
Today’s Headlines
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Jul 07:
7/7/07: The Live Earth Global Warming Survival Handbook
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Jul 03:
Good Stuff in This Week’s Mobilizing the Region
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Jun 25:
Brooklyn Greenway Initiative Benefit This Thursday
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Jun 22:
T.A.’s Dani Simons to Join the DOT Dream Team
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Jun 22:
Blogger Launches Petititon to Revive Dormant Subway Tracks
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Jun 22:
Meatpacking District Will Get a Makeover
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Jun 21:
Gov’t Employee Parking at the High Bridge Rec Center
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Jun 21:
“Modal Bias” on Brian Lehrer Today at 11:20 am
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Jun 20:
Leave Your iPod at Home Tomorrow
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Jun 20:
Q&A With Transportation Commissioner Janette Sadik-Khan
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Jun 19:
New “Bike Boxes” Send Cyclists to the Front of the Line
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Jun 18:
Biking [on the Wrong Side of the Road] is “Normal” [in London]
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Jun 18:
Quinn Announces Her Support for Congestion Pricing
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Jun 18:
No Smoking, Typewriters or Fedoras in This “City Room”
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Jun 15:
It’s the Bus Riders, Stupid.
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Jun 15:
A Bronx Cheer for Congestion Pricing
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Jun 15:
Andy Wiley-Schwartz Starts at DOT on Monday
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Jun 14:
Brooklyn Community Board Supports DOT’s 9th Street Plan
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Jun 14:
If Congestion Pricing Had to be Approved by a Legislature…
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Jun 13:
You Are Invited to Streetsblog’s Birthday Party
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Jun 13:
Man “Tasered” and Arrested for Leaving Airport by Bike
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Jun 12:
DOT: Bergtraum to CUNY, Primeggia to Copenhagen
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Jun 12:
Parks Dept: Central Park Cyclists Must Stop at Traffic Signals
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Jun 12:
The King of Albany Gridlock Breaks His Silence
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Jun 11:
Jon Orcutt Appointed as DOT Senior Policy Advisor
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Jun 11:
Albany Advocacy Day
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Jun 11:
Thank Goodness for Dear, Glorious Leader Sheldon Silver
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Jun 11:
Another Big Hire at DOT
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Jun 08:
Cyclists Be Warned: New City Bike Racks May Not be Secure
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Jun 08:
Submit a Congestion Pricing Question to Dr. Horodniceanu
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Jun 08:
Eyes on the Street: A Historic Sidewalk Widening in Williamsburg
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Jun 08:
PlaNYC Testimony Live on NY1 Right Now
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Jun 07:
I Love This Town But…
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Jun 07:
PlaNYC and Pricing Legislation Introduced. Download it Here.
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Jun 07:
Congestion Pricing Plan Advancing Rapidly
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Jun 07:
Spitzer Backs Congestion Pricing
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Jun 04:
London Finds “No Adverse Impact” Outside Charging Zone
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Jun 04:
Joe Lentol is Worried About Congestion Pricing Park-and-Riders
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Jun 01:
Hit by a Car? Nothing Can be Done Unless You’re Hurt.
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May 31:
Transport for London: You’re Better Off by Bike
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May 31:
Deborah Glick: Devil’s in the Details of Congestion Pricing
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May 29:
DOT Hires Bruce Schaller to Run a New Planning Office
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May 29:
David Yassky Supports Congestion Pricing
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May 29:
How Many New Yorkers Actually Commute to the CBD by Auto?
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May 25:
A Portland Neighborhood Reclaims its Streets
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May 25:
Introducing Streetsblog Contributor John Kaehny
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May 25:
Streetsblog Publisher Puts up $250K to Push PlaNYC
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May 24:
New Quinnipiac Poll Measures Opinion on Congestion Pricing
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May 23:
Congestion Pricing: Joan Millman is Not Convinced
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May 23:
Debunking the Attack on Congestion Pricing
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May 23:
Jessica is Lappin’ up the Congestion Pricing Anxiety
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May 22:
Hail the Yassky Cab: All NYC Taxis to be Hybrid by 2012
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May 21:
Pricing is Alive. JFK Rail Link and SMART Fund May be Dead.
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May 21:
Eyes on the Street: Brooklyn’s Fifth Avenue Street Fair
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May 18:
Alternative Uses for Curbside Parking Space, Circa 1941
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May 18:
John Liu Says He Supports Congestion Pricing
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May 18:
Battery Park City: An Opportunity for Innovative Street Design
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May 18:
CB6 Committee Unanimously Approves 9th St. Project
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May 17:
Time to Expand DOT’s Toolbox Beyond Signs and Signals?
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May 17:
9th Street Road Diet Meeting Tonight
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May 17:
Pedestrians Fighting Over the Scraps
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May 16:
Gridlock Sam on Car-Free Central Park
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May 16:
Aug. ’05 Flashback: 1,200 Slopers Demand a Safer 9th Street
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May 15:
Eyes on the Street: Commissioner Sadik-Khan’s Commute
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May 14:
A New Day at DOT
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May 11:
Double-Parking in a Bike Lane? There Isn’t Even a Check Box.
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May 10:
There Are Certain Facts That We’ve All Got to Face Up To
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May 08:
Ninth Street Update: Robert’s Rules of Order
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May 07:
Choose Your Own Hells Kitchen
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May 07:
StreetFilms: Touring Brooklyn’s Future Waterfront Greenway
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May 07:
Another Look at the WSJ Article on European Cycling
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May 03:
The Benefits of a “Road Diet.”
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May 02:
This is How State Senator Eric Adams Celebrates Bike Month?
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May 01:
PlaNYC Team Releases Transportation Technical Report
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Apr 30:
Eyes on the Street: Critical Mass of U.S. Senators
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Apr 30:
Eyes on the Street: Tour de Senator Schumer
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Apr 27:
Eyes on the Street: Parking it for Lunch in London
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Apr 27:
Sadik-Khan Has Two Things Her Predecessors Lacked…
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Apr 27:
Sadik-Khan Press Conference Coverage
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Apr 27:
Tell Marty Markowitz You Support DOT’s 9th Street Plan
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Apr 24:
Sadik-Khan is Next at DOT
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Apr 18:
SoHo Car Owners Mobilizing to Save Parking, Fight Bike Lanes
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Apr 17:
Pedi Politics
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Apr 16:
More 9th Street Residents Weigh In on DOT’s Plan
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Apr 13:
Department of Judith
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Apr 12:
Why Hasn’t Mayor Bloomberg Announced Her Replacement?
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Apr 12:
CB6 Asks DOT to Find a Final Solution to the “Bicycle Problem”
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Apr 11:
DOT’s 9th Street Plan: Frequently Asked Questions
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Apr 11:
Manhattan CB2 Approves DOT’s Prince/Bleecker Bike Plan
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Apr 11:
Who Opposes A Plan for Safer, More Livable Streets and Why?
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Apr 11:
We Must Imagine a Future Without Cars
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Apr 10:
The Plan: Making Brooklyn’s 9th Street Safer for Everyone
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Apr 10:
Updated Version of DOT’s 9th Street Plan
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Apr 10:
Take a Minute to Fax in Your Support for DOT’s 9th Street Plan
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Apr 09:
Take Action: Support the Prince/Bleecker Bike Route Plan
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Apr 06:
Park Slope Passes on Traffic-Calming, Ped Safety & Bike Lanes
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Apr 06:
Primeggia’s One-Way Safety Claims Are Based on 1970s Studies
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Apr 06:
Resolved: More Traffic Congestion & Automobile Dependence
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Apr 05:
Tonight: Help DOT Build a River-to-River Bike Connection
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Mar 29:
Sneak Peek at DOT’s Plan for Park Slope’s 9th Street
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Mar 29:
Should DOT Install Separated Bike Lanes on 9th Street?
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Mar 29:
Vanderbilt Avenue: The Model for DOT’s 9th Street Proposal?
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Mar 29:
A Tale of Two DOT Plans
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Mar 29:
Opposition Brewing to DOT’s Proposal for 9th Street Bike Lanes
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Mar 29:
A Community Workshop to Re-envision Grand Army Plaza
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Mar 28:
Ungrateful Liberal Scum, “We Do Not Summons Our Own.”
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Mar 26:
City Council Fiddles While New York City Chokes on Traffic
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Mar 20:
Meet the New Boss
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Mar 20:
Mayor Bloomberg at the Crossroads: Who Will Run DOT?
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Mar 16:
DOT Makes the Case for Bike Routes Parallel to W. Houston St.
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Mar 16:
Doctoroff Sets Stage for Something Bold, Creative & Expensive
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Mar 16:
New Sheriff in Chinatown
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Mar 16:
Coverage of Last Night’s Park Slope Meeting
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Mar 16:
DOT’s Park Slope One-Way Presentation
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Mar 16:
Brooklyn to City Hall: Give us Planning Not Traffic Engineering
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Mar 16:
Today’s Headlines
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Mar 15:
UncivilServants.org: Cleaning Up Illegal Permit Parking
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Mar 14:
Defending “The Bailey’s” Right to Kung Pao Chicken and an SUV
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Mar 14:
StreetFilms: One Way is the Wrong Way
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Mar 13:
DOT’s Park Slope Proposal: Is this Atlantic Yards Planning?
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Mar 13:
PlaNYC 2030 Project “Tearing Things Up” at City Hall
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Mar 13:
Correction…
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Mar 12:
One Way? No Way. Send a Message to City Hall.
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Mar 12:
Insta-Bus Rapid Transit for Lower Manhattan
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Mar 12:
DOT Proposes Solution to Houston Street Cycling Danger
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Mar 11:
Quick Bus and Ped Improvements Coming to Lower Broadway
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Mar 09:
City Finally Finishes Eight-Year-Long Truck Study
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Mar 08:
Brooklyn to Bloomberg: Include Local Stakeholders in Planning
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Mar 07:
DOT’s Park Slope Plan Requires Community Board Support
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Mar 05:
Why Is DOT Reorganizing Park Slope Traffic? Because.
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Mar 05:
Commissioner Weinshall Agrees: Two-Way Streets Calm Traffic
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Mar 01:
There’s No Such Thing as “Free Parking”
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Mar 01:
DOT Explains New Traffic Solution. But What’s the Problem?
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Feb 28:
DOT Commissioner Water Cooler Chatter
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Feb 28:
DOT’s Plan for Park Slope Traffic “Improvements” Confirmed
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Feb 28:
DOT to Propose Radical New Traffic Plan for Park Slope
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Feb 28:
Today’s Headlines
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Feb 27:
No Parking Slope
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Feb 27:
Today’s Headlines
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Feb 26:
3 Peds Hit on 9th Ave. 2 Dead. Mayor Mike: Where Are You?
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Feb 26:
Mass Movement on Two Wheels
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Feb 26:
Introducing StreetFilms.org
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Feb 26:
Today’s Headlines
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Feb 23:
Streetfilms: Intersection Intervention
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Feb 22:
Sources Say…
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Feb 22:
Help us Find Livable Streets Blogs in Cities Outside NYC
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Feb 21:
Illegal Permit Parking Crackdown Underway?
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Feb 21:
34th Street Partnership Explains the Icey Snow in the Bike Lane
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Feb 21:
Why Wasn’t Traffic-Calming Built on Third Avenue?
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Feb 21:
Eyes on the Street: Snow Days
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Feb 20:
Kate Ascher: New York City’s Next DOT Commissioner?
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Feb 20:
Will “Atlantic Yards” Kill the JFK-Lower Manhattan Rail Link?
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Feb 19:
DOT Pledged Ped Safety Fixes by 2006 on Deadly Third Ave
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Feb 16:
DOT Commissioner Update
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Feb 15:
Visualizing a Car-Free Bedford Avenue
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Feb 15:
Plan Urged Safety Measures for Intersection Where Boy Died
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Feb 14:
2006 Pedestrian Fatality Numbers from DOT
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Feb 14:
NYC Pedestrian Fatalities Up in 2006?
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Feb 12:
Political Deal Results in Bad Pedicab Regulations
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Feb 12: