Traffic Relief Rally at City Hall This Morning
Councilmember Gale Brewer joined Transportation Alternatives and representatives of community groups from all over the city at this morning's Citywide Coalition for Traffic Relief rally on the steps of City Hall. The Coalition currently includes 129 community organizations.
12:28 PM EST on November 14, 2006

Councilmember Gale Brewer joined Transportation Alternatives and representatives of community groups from all over the city at this morning’s Citywide Coalition for Traffic Relief rally on the steps of City Hall. The Coalition currently includes 129 community organizations.
These organizations have signed on to a petition calling on the Bloomberg Administration to devlop “a comprehensive traffic relief plan to reduce citywide traffic volumes by 15% by the year 2009” by implementing the following five measures:
- Wider and more protected rights-of-way for transit, walking and bicycling
- Parking Reform
- Traffic Calming
- Reduce Truck Impacts
- Congestion Pricing
Aaron Naparstek is the founder and former editor-in-chief of Streetsblog. Based in Brooklyn, New York, Naparstek's journalism, advocacy and community organizing work has been instrumental in growing the bicycle network, removing motor vehicles from parks, and developing new public plazas, car-free streets and life-saving traffic-calming measures across all five boroughs. He was also one of the original cast members of the "War on Cars" podcast. You can find more of his work on his website.
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