Today’s Headlines
What A Car-Free Central Park Means to a 4 Year Old (Video)Upload your videos to YouTube and tag them “streetsblog” Longtime Residents Oppose Park Avenue Ped Safety Measures (Sun) Monica Howe is L.A.’s Pedal Pusher (LAT) Gothamitis: Adam Gopnik on Bloomberg’s Sustainability Speech (NYer) Power-Washing the Lower East Side. Wow. (Gothamist) MTA President Reuter Leaves … Continued
11:26 AM EST on January 4, 2007
What A Car-Free Central Park Means to a 4 Year Old (Video)
Upload your videos to YouTube and tag them “streetsblog”
- Longtime Residents Oppose Park Avenue Ped Safety Measures (Sun)
- Monica Howe is L.A.’s Pedal Pusher (LAT)
- Gothamitis: Adam Gopnik on Bloomberg’s Sustainability Speech (NYer)
- Power-Washing the Lower East Side. Wow. (Gothamist)
- MTA President Reuter Leaves for Parsons Brinckerhoff (Post)
- Pt. Authority Sells Ads on the George Washington Bridge (Gothamist)
- Cyclists ready for memorial ride on Sunday — but for how many? (Metro)
- Vuchic: How Much Space do you Need to Move 15K travelers/hour?
- Climate shift helped destroy China’s Tang dynasty
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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