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September 2009
Thu 17: Council Targets Roaming Tour Buses, Old School Buses 0
July 2009
Mon 20: Know Your Road Lobbyists: The American Highway Users Alliance 7
Thu 16: Streetfilms: "Stop the Pollution, Pick a Solution" 1
April 2009
Wed 22: Does the State Senate's MTA Plan Pass Environmental Muster? 3
October 2008
Thu 23: Enforcement Lags as Tour Bus Companies Flout Pollution Regs 12
Tue 14: How Clean Is Your Commute? 30
August 2008
Mon 18: Planners and Green Groups Call for Off-Street Parking Reform 13
July 2008
Tue 22: Evaluating Summer Streets 29
June 2008
Mon 30: City Council Signs Off on 400-Car Garage in Hell's Kitchen 4
Wed 25: Albany Gives the Go-Ahead to Gansevoort Waste Transfer Station 4
Thu 12: City Planning Commission Approves 400-Car Garage for Hell's Kitchen 4
May 2008
Fri 30: Hell's Parking Lot 7
April 2008
Tue 15: Jessica Lappin: Congestion Pricing Advocate 20
Fri 4: What Glick's District Will Lose Without Congestion Pricing 21
Thu 3: Glick Worried Pricing Will Make Air Quality Worse 38
March 2008
Mon 3: Denny Farrell: Less Traffic and Pollution? No Thanks. 17
February 2008
Tue 26: Assemblyman Hevesi Clarifies Transit "Money Grab" Comment 11
Wed 20: We Are Breathing Oil in Our Big Cities 4
January 2008
Thu 24: Testify! Public Hearings on Congestion Pricing Tonight 7
Fri 18: Bloomberg Touches on Safe Streets, Pricing in State of the City 5
November 2007
Thu 29: Carrion Gets $30K Donation Following Yanks Walkway Deal 1
Tue 27: The Trafficist: An Interview With Randy Cohen 12
Tue 13: Green Subways: An Answer Blowing in the Wind? 7
Thu 8: For the Best in Transportainment, Try a Pedicab 8
Tue 6: Hell's Kitchen Parking Plan Continues to Confound 5
Thu 1: Low Turnout But Surprising Support at Bronx Congestion Hearing 8
Thu 1: Lew Fidler's "9 CARAT STONE" Traffic Plan Arrives 84
Thu 1: Weiner's Congestion Testimony: Anything But Pricing 30
October 2007
Wed 31: Congestion Pricing Supporters Speak Up in Queens 9
Wed 31: RSVP Today to Re-Imagine Manhattan's Upper West Side 2
Wed 31: Bloomberg Visits the Bronx. Dinowitz Anti-Pricing Rally Fizzles. 3
Tue 30: Philly CarShare Helps City Government Reduce Its Fleet 5
Tue 30: Warning: Driving Could Be Hazardous to Your Health 2
Thu 25: Businessman Hopes to Bring Bikes Back to Beijing 4
Wed 24: State Opposes City Plan for Hell's Kitchen Parking 9
Tue 23: Silver: "We're Not Doing Gansevoort Today." 10
Thu 18: Tykes on Bikes 1
Tue 16: Carrion Supports Congestion and Congestion Pricing 5
Mon 15: Idle Hands 27
Mon 15: The MTA is Testing Battery-Powered Buses 6
Fri 12: "Not Getting Anywhere" at Bronx Pricing Forum 5
Thu 11: Congestion Pricing, Hashed Out Over Pints 10
Tue 9: City Approves Subsidized Yankee Stadium Parking 15
Tue 9: National Media Noticing the Urban Bicycling Trend 2
Mon 8: The World's Greenest, Most Livable Cities 9
Wed 3: Yankees' Subsidy Deal Gets Stranger and Stranger 10
Wed 3: Doubts About DOT Congestion Prescription in Jax Heights 1
Tue 2: Fresh Direct Responds to Environmental Critics 37
September 2007
Wed 26: Variable Pricing at MTA Bridges and Tunnels Would Ease Traffic 8
Wed 26: 'No Impact Man' Hits the Mainstream 1
Fri 21: Making the Case for Compact Development 8
Thu 20: No Vote on Stadium Deal by Bronx Borough Board 0
Wed 19: The Black Car Project: Filling the Autovoid 9
Tue 18: Are East River Bridge Tolls the Better Way to Go? 26
Tue 18: City Hopes to Draw Constant Traffic to Subsidized Stadium Garages 1
Mon 17: Judge in Vermont Upholds California Emissions Standards 7
Tue 11: Vote Postponed on Yankees Parking Subsidy 2
Fri 7: The Bronx Is Burning Over Subsidized Stadium Parking 16
Wed 5: Take Me Out to the Yankees Parking Subsidy Hearing 18
Wed 5: Japanese Automakers Settle Pollution Suit 0
August 2007
Thu 30: Brit's Liberal Dems Want to Ban Cars Fueled By Gasoline 2
Wed 29: Carbon Tax vs. Cap and Trade 7
Mon 20: The Urban Transportation Report Card 7
Wed 15: Weiner on the Environment: Big Talk, Small Stick 52
Wed 15: Car-Free Hours in Prospect Park? Fuhgeddaboutit! 33
Mon 13: Make That 21 Council Members in Favor of Pricing 4
Fri 10: In the Shadow of the Queensboro Bridge 10
Mon 6: New Blog Focuses on Tearing Down the "Highway to Nowhere" 7
Fri 3: Grist: NYC is Not One of the World's Greenest Cities 55
July 2007
Fri 27: Dying to Get to Work 11
Fri 13: Senator Decries Bronx Asthma Crisis Then Rejects Pricing 13
Fri 13: Highlights From This Week's Mobilizing the Region 3
Wed 11: New York City Kids Sing Their Support for Congestion Pricing 3
Fri 6: Mayor Speaks at Times Square Pricing Rally 4
Thu 5: A Rising Bicycle Tide in Mexico City 4
Tue 3: Good Stuff in This Week's Mobilizing the Region 7
June 2007
Thu 28: Just What India Needs: The $3,000 Car 2
Tue 26: Rediscovering the Romance of the Bicycle in Paris 2
Tue 26: Permanent Pricing Gets Green Light in Sweden 3
Mon 25: Book Review: Twenty-Three Years to Save the Planet 8
Fri 15: A Bronx Cheer for Congestion Pricing 2
Thu 14: City Transit Commuters: A Modest Assessment 17
Tue 12: New TV Ad Focuses on PlaNYC's Health Benefits 4
Mon 11: 112,000 Less Cars 33
Mon 11: California Sues Municipalities for Bad Urban Planning 2
Thu 7: I Love This Town But... 0
Thu 7: Chicago Alley Initiative Shows How to Make Streets Greener 0
Thu 7: Car-Free Sundays Return to the Bronx 4
Wed 6: CB4 Votes Tonight on a Revised Hell's Kitchen 4
Wed 6: REBNY Goes Green, Gets Behind PlaNYC 4
Tue 5: T.A.: City, State Parking Drive Would Torpedo Taxi Initiative 10
Mon 4: Seventeen Elected Officials Endorse PlaNYC Initiatives 1
Fri 1: City Wants 20,000 New Parking Spaces in Hell's Kitchen 26
Fri 1: Small Business Leaders Voice Support For PlaNYC 2
May 2007
Wed 30: LA.Streetsblog: The Joy of Poor Circulation 6
Tue 29: David Yassky Supports Congestion Pricing 12
Tue 22: Hail the Yassky Cab: All NYC Taxis to be Hybrid by 2012 20
Fri 18: T.A. Rides with the Mayors of Sydney & Copenhagen 2
Thu 17: The Car Habit Is Tough to Break 20
Wed 16: The Clock is Ticking for PlaNYC 1
Wed 16: Letter of the Week: Congestion Pricing Diplomacy 11
Mon 14: PlanNYC's Public Political Push Starts Today 1
Fri 11: Smoggy China to Observe World Car Free Day 1
Fri 11: Swerve and Protect: Boston's Bicycle Bible 12
Thu 10: High-Emission Vehicles to Pay £200 ($400!) to Enter London 4
Thu 10: There Are Certain Facts That We've All Got to Face Up To 4
Mon 7: Sadik-Khan and Congestion Pricing: Ready for Prime Time 30
Fri 4: Building a Better Bike Lane 30
Thu 3: Are "Directional Miles of Bike Lanes" a Good Metric? 32
Tue 1: New York Magazine Casts a Cynical Eye on "Bloomtopia" 23
April 2007
Thu 26: Ken Livingstone on Congestion Pricing in New York 7
Thu 26: Black Clouds Over China 0
Wed 25: Streetfilms: Little Legs for Green Streets 0
Tue 24: What $13 Billion Looks Like 7
Mon 23: How Green Is Our Mayor 44
Fri 20: Roosevelt Island Residents Want Pedestrian Access to QBB 4
Fri 20: They Come to Bury the BQE, Not to Praise It 16
Fri 20: The Ultimate System: Free Mass Transit and Congestion Pricing 15
Tue 17: Bus Depots a Symptom of Environmental Injustice 3
Thu 12: Quinn's Pedicab Problem: Personal or Political? 9
Tue 10: Co-op City Group Wants Bus Rapid Transit to Keep Its Distance 3
Mon 9: City Pitches in for Yankee Stadium Parking 16
Thu 5: Support Builds for Carbon Taxes Over "Cap and Trade" 3
Thu 5: Hey, Wanna Buy a Minicar? 12
Wed 4: Auto Worship Still a Sign of the Times 14
Tue 3: Mexico City 2030? 2
Mon 2: Congestion Relief: It's About Your Health 1
Sun 1: Breaking News: Frieden Tapped as DOT Commish 14
March 2007
Fri 30: Do Ya Think I'm Sexy? 1
Tue 27: Mayor Says Toronto Will be North America's Greenest City 2
Tue 27: Sydney Organizes World's First Climate Change Blackout 1
Mon 26: Paris Embraces Plan to Become City of Bikes 4
Wed 21: Congestion Pricing: Does New York Have the Will? 18
Fri 9: Report from Atlanta: Don't Walk This Way 23
February 2007
Wed 28: Schumer & Clinton Backing Upstate NIMBY's Against Wind Power 8
Wed 21: Eyes on the Street: Snow Days 6
Tue 20: Taxing Vehicles Based on Their Environmental Impact 1
Mon 12: Pedaling Protest Takes on Car Show 6
Mon 12: Gridlock Sam: Avert Climate Catastrophe, Ride a Vespa® 28
Tue 6: Paris Set for Invasion of Self-Service Bicycles 14
Tue 6: New York New Visions Tackles "Sustainable" New York Future 2
Fri 2: Eyes on the Street: Grim, Immovable 9
January 2007
Tue 30: Study: Kids Who Live Near Freeways Have Trouble Breathing 9
Tue 16: Uncool New York: NYC Lags in Combatting Climate Change 2
Wed 10: Making Hell's Kitchen Less Hellish 20
Wed 3: Day Two: Ten Things for Governor Spitzer to Fix 21
December 2006
Tue 12: Bloomberg: "New York City 2030: Accepting the Challenge" 29
November 2006
Tue 28: Curbside Space Wars 8
Mon 27: 45% of New Yorkers Receptive to a Congestion Charge 30
Mon 20: Congestion Pricing: The Public Conversation Begins 6
September 2006
Tue 26: Urban Density and a Pocketbook Plea for Congestion Pricing 17
Wed 20: State of California Sues Carmakers on Climate Change 4
August 2006
Sat 12: The Post 'Drops the Ball' on Yankee Stadium Story 3
July 2006
Tue 18: London Mayor Wants $45 Fee From Pollution-Making SUV's 5
Mon 17: Do-It-Yourself Air Quality Monitoring 0
Mon 17: What's Wrong With This Picture? 6