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Commentary - transportation

Upper East Side Workshop Kicks Off New Street Safety Campaign

StreetsBlog (New York NY) - 1 hour 30 min ago
"You can't control what you can't measure," the saying goes. So to get a better grip on street safety on Manhattan's East Side, Transportation Alternatives started by collecting better data about local traffic collisions and injuries. Last night, a group of Upper East Siders used that information to begin imagining ...
Categories: Transportation

As Geithner Touts Infrastructure, Skepticism Persists on $4B ‘I-Fund’ Plan

StreetsBlog (New York NY) - 1 hour 30 min ago
Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner, considered a skeptic of transportation stimulus spending by some lawmakers, yesterday joined two other White House economic advisers in endorsing new infrastructure investment as a means to jump-start the economy. Geithner (l.) said that there is "a very good economic ...
Categories: Transportation

DOT Proposes Flushing Ave Bikeway in Prelude to Major Greenway Push

StreetsBlog (New York NY) - 1 hour 30 min ago
Image: NYCDOT [PDF]Here's a look at the Flushing Avenue bike path concept that NYCDOT presented to the Brooklyn Community Board 2 transportation committee last night. This project would add another preliminary link to the path of the Brooklyn Waterfront Greenway, following in the footsteps of the ...
Categories: Transportation

City Bus Hits and Kills Cyclist on Crotona Avenue in the Bronx

StreetsBlog (New York NY) - 1 hour 30 min ago
Google Street View of Crotona Avenue near the reported crash location.The Daily News and NY1 are reporting that a 57-year-old cyclist was killed by a city bus this morning after riding to avoid an open car door. The NY1 report describes the collision by saying that ...
Categories: Transportation

Photo Call: Families on Transit Where You Live

StreetsBlog (New York NY) - 1 hour 30 min ago
Kids just want to have fun -- and they have a surprising amount of it on transit. (Photo: Sarah Goodyear)It's time for another Streetsblog Network user-generated slide show, this one about families riding transit. ...
Categories: Transportation

Today’s Headlines

StreetsBlog (New York NY) - 1 hour 30 min ago
Bridge Toll Foe Trounces Spouse-Abusing Bridge Toll Foe for Queens State Senate Seat (NYT, News) Two-Way Protected Bike Lane Slated for Brooklyn's Flushing Ave (Bklyn Paper) MTA Blame Game: Another Ingenious Transit Fix From Our State Legislators (SAS, ...
Categories: Transportation

Brown Offers Senate Plan For More Federal Operating Aid to Local Transit

StreetsBlog (New York NY) - 1 hour 30 min ago
Local transit officials seeking more federal operating aid during lean budgetary times got a new ally today in Sen. Sherrod Brown (D-OH), who introduced legislation in Congress' upper chamber to give rail and bus agencies more flexibility to spend funding from Washington on averting service cuts and layoffs. ...
Categories: Transportation

Eyes on the Street: Yankees Grab Lead in “Subway Series of Bike Parking”

StreetsBlog (New York NY) - 1 hour 30 min ago
You've gotta hand it to the Yankees. When they decide to do something, they don't go halfway. The Yankees have installed dozens of bicycle racks across the street from their stadium. Photos: Starts and Fits. In the inaugural season of their new ballpark (built ...
Categories: Transportation

Can the New York City Council Wrest Crash Information From NYPD?

StreetsBlog (New York NY) - 1 hour 30 min ago
City Council Member Gale Brewer wants to open up traffic data to improve conditions for pedestrians and cyclists on Manhattan's West Side, a campaign that could lead to safer streets across the boroughs. Because crash info remains hidden from the public, the ...
Categories: Transportation

At Flushing Commons, NYCEDC’s Fuzzy Math Superceded PlaNYC Goals

StreetsBlog (New York NY) - 1 hour 30 min ago
Yesterday, Streetsblog looked at Flushing Commons, a mixed-use development in the heart of transit-rich downtown Flushing, where the New York City Economic Development Corporation has mandated suburban levels of parking. We asked the EDC why they required nearly 1,600 spaces in the development, and now we have an answer. It's ...
Categories: Transportation

How Infrastructure Shapes the Way We Move

StreetsBlog (New York NY) - 1 hour 30 min ago
This infrastructure makes only one choice possible. (Photo: prefers salt marsh via Flickr)Thanks to a few of the posts on the Streetsblog Network over the last 24 hours, we're thinking about free will, morality and infrastructure. Jarrett Walker of Human Transit linked to a post from ...
Categories: Transportation

Today’s Headlines

StreetsBlog (New York NY) - 1 hour 30 min ago
TSTC: Christie's NJ Transit-Slashing Plan a Recipe for Disaster (Bergen Record) Even 'Smart Pedals' Can't Solve the Problem of Imperfect Motorists (NYT) Komanoff Tells Chinese Cities How to Leapfrog NYC on Traffic Relief (Dot Earth) ...
Categories: Transportation

Details on East Side SBS Come Into Focus at CB 8 Meeting

StreetsBlog (New York NY) - 1 hour 30 min ago
We've got a few dispatches from last week's Manhattan Community Board 8 meeting on East Side bus and bike improvements, which we couldn't attend ourselves. First, Michael Auerbach, who's doing some fantastic livable streets advocacy at Upper Green Side, filed a report for Second Ave Sagas about how Select ...
Categories: Transportation

Parking Overkill in Flushing: NYCEDC Made It Happen

StreetsBlog (New York NY) - 1 hour 30 min ago
It's not every day that a New York City real estate executive name-checks Donald Shoup, but one developer admiringly referred to the dean of progressive parking policy while explaining his project to Streetsblog. If not for the New York City Economic Development Corporation and mis-directed political pressures, says TDC Development President Michael ...
Categories: Transportation

LaHood Reaches Out to Transit Industry, Lamenting ‘Lousy Economy’

StreetsBlog (New York NY) - 1 hour 30 min ago
Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood sought to commiserate with the cash-strapped transit industry today, declaring the Obama administration an ally of local rail and bus agencies even as the "lousy economy" clouds prospects for passage of a new long-term federal transportation bill. Transportation Secretary Ray ...
Categories: Transportation

Bill Targeting Drivers With Suspended Licenses Gains Steam

StreetsBlog (New York NY) - 1 hour 30 min ago
Last January, Alexander Aponte struck and killed nine-year-old Ibrihim Ahmed in Ozone Park while driving with a suspended license. He was charged with a misdemeanor -- driving without a license -- that carried a maximum penalty of $500 and/or 30 days in prison. The Queens DA's office said prosecutors couldn't ...
Categories: Transportation

Streetfilms: Voices From the National Bike Summit

StreetsBlog (New York NY) - 1 hour 30 min ago
Last week, hundreds of bike advocates descended on Washington D.C. for the tenth annual National Bike Summit -- the largest one yet. Hosted by the League of American Bicyclists, the summit is always a great opportunity for advocates to share ideas and make the case for ...
Categories: Transportation

This Week: UES & Bklyn Street Safety, NYMTC & Carrion

StreetsBlog (New York NY) - 1 hour 30 min ago
Former Bronx boro prez Adolfo Carrion returns to the city for a Thursday event. Otherwise this week's highlights are all about street safety and transit improvements. Tuesday: TA's East Side Streets Coalition will hold a workshop on street ...
Categories: Transportation

Does Your City Have Ambitions?

StreetsBlog (New York NY) - 1 hour 30 min ago
Cities are launching pads for all sorts of human aspirations. (Photo: Gold41 via Flickr) Yesterday, at The Urbanophile, Aaron Renn posted a thoughtful essay about the idea of the "city as platform." He looks at all the different meanings of the word platform and muses about how they ...
Categories: Transportation

Today’s Headlines

StreetsBlog (New York NY) - 1 hour 30 min ago
Yellow Bus Honcho Makes Dept of Ed an Offer They Can't Refuse (Post) Cabbies and Customers in an Uproar Over Excess Charging Scandal (NYT, News, NY1) Livable Streets Mensch David Yassky Tapped to Head TLC (NY1) ...
Categories: Transportation

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