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Thursday, January 8, 2009: West Side Town Hall Meeting on New York’s Budget Crisis

6:30 pm to 9:00 pm

Hudson Guild's Fulton Senior Center
119 Ninth Av. (bet. 17th & 18th Sts.)
Manhattan
Friday, January 9, 2009: Queens Boulevard Bike-Pool

6:30 pm to 7:00 pm

Queens side of the Queensboro Bridge Bike Path
Long Island City, Queens
Monday, January 12, 2009: Transportation Alternatives Queens Committee Meeting

6:30 pm to 8:00 pm

Greater Astoria Historical Society
35-20 Broadway (at 36th St.), 4th Floor
Queens; Five Borough Bicycle Club-January Meeting — A Evening of Upstate Rides

6:30 pm to 9:30 pm

American Youth Hostel Building
891 Amsterdam Av. (bet. 103rd & 104th Sts.), Board Room 111
Manhattan
Tuesday, January 13, 2009: Meatpacking District Traffic Plaza Public Meeting

6:30 pm

Housing Works
320 W. 13th St. (at Gansevoort & W. 4th Sts.)
Manhattan
Wednesday, January 14, 2009: Transportation Alternatives Bronx Committee Meeting

7:00 pm to 8:00 pm

Bronx Library Center
310 E. Kingsbridge Rd. (one block north of Fordham Rd.), Room C21
The Bronx
Friday, January 16, 2009: Philadelphia Bike Share Movie Night Featuring Streetfilms

6:30 pm

Academy of Natural Sciences
Logan Square, 19th & Race Sts.
Philadelphia
Wednesday, January 21, 2009: Panel: Powering Up Cities for Plug-In Hybrids

6:00 pm to 8:00 pm

The New York Academy of Sciences at 7 World Trade Center
250 Greenwich St. (at Barclay St.), 40th Floor
Manhattan; Volunteer Mailing Night at Transportation Alternatives

6:00 pm to 8:30 pm

Transportation Alternatives
127 W. 26th St. (bet. Sixth & Seventh Aves.), Suite 1002
Manhattan
Thursday, January 22, 2009: Panel: Access to the Region’s Core

6:30 pm

Museum of the City of New York
1220 Fifth Av. (bet. 103rd & 104th Sts.)
Manhattan
Thursday, January 29, 2009: Transportation Alternatives Brooklyn Committee Meeting

7:00 pm to 8:30 pm

SODA Bar
629 Vanderbilt Av. (bet. St. Marks Av. & Prospect Pl.)
Brooklyn

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- Metro-North Makes Its M-7 Train Cars More Bike-Friendly
  
  22 Comments Latest by: DingDong, Today at 6:27 PM
- Get Ready for Streetsblog San Francisco
  
  29 Comments Latest by: Elizabeth Stampe, Yesterday at 8:48 PM
- Dispute Over Kent Avenue Bike Lanes Keeps Rolling
  
  23 Comments Latest by: jackr, Yesterday at 12:36 PM
- Portland's Safer Streets: How Do They Do It?
  
  12 Comments Latest by: Erin Qureshi, Today at 9:26 AM
- ...Unless You Bike to Work on Kent Avenue
  
  10 Comments Latest by: Fritz, Today at 9:12 AM
- DingDong said:
  "Comment on the rush hour policy: yes, Metro North probably won’t have enough space at rush hour for bikes on trains departing or leaving Grand Central - but plenty of people..."
- Gargamel Tralfaz said:
  "I think these are a good idea. Heck, even if they end up not adopting it system wide, at least they are trying. I have been riding Metro North/NJ transit for 17 years. I..."
- Andy B from Jersey said:
  "Hello!! NJ TRANSIT?!?! Are you paying attention?? Why does my one bike need to take up 5 seats when, if I could store it vertically, it would displace only one? As for..."
- Kevin Buchanan said:
  "To be fair to Texas, it’s the State DOT that’s brain-dead. Some of us Texas cities are trying to do better despite them - here in Fort Worth we’ve got a..."
- Todd Scott said:
  "We’ve expressed this same concern in Metro Detroit, since we have two very large highway widening projects with approved FEISs. http://www.m-bike.org/blog/..."
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  February 18, 2008
2. Same.gov: A Transportation Secretary Who’s Hard to Believe In
  December 18, 2008
3. Shaping the 2009 Transpo Debate: Rockefeller Foundation’s Nick Turner
  October 23, 2008
4. The Livable Streets Backlash Claims a Victim at Brooklyn’s CB1
  December 24, 2008
5. Good Signs for Bikes in Buildings Bill at City Council Hearing
  December 9, 2008
6. Streetfilm: Bus Rapid Transit (BRT) in Bogotá
  January 28, 2008
7. How Paris is Beating Traffic Without Congestion Pricing
  April 22, 2008
8. Streetfilms: “Lounging on High” in Wodonga, Australia
  March 26, 2008
9. The 2008 Streetsie Awards, Part 3
  December 31, 2008
10. Portland’s Safer Streets: How Do They Do It?
  January 6, 2009
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