Room to Breathe NYC: Bicyclists Needed for Photo Shoot
Transportation Alternatives is reproducing a dramatic visual that will show how much street space New York City would gain if more people rode bicycles and took mass transit instead of driving personal cars. T.A. will have a professional photographer on hand to document a group of 40-50 cyclists riding on an iconic stretch of NYC's streets. We need you to be a part of the pack!
9:43 PM EDT on March 24, 2007
Transportation Alternatives is reproducing a dramatic visual that will show how much street space New York City would gain if more people rode bicycles and took mass transit instead of driving personal cars. T.A. will have a professional photographer on hand to document a group of 40-50 cyclists riding on an iconic stretch of NYC’s streets. We need you to be a part of the pack!
T.A. will provide bagels and coffee; you provide yourself, your bicycle and a desire to be part of an historic and unique event. Munich’s Society for Ecological Research and Portland’s Bicycle Transportation Alliance have each staged versions of what T.A. is planning here in NYC.
Before he began blogging about land use and transportation, Aaron Donovan wrote The New York Times Neediest Cases Fund's annual fundraising appeal for three years and earned a master's degree in urban planning from Columbia. Since then, he has worked for nonprofit organizations devoted to New York City economic development. He lives and works in the Financial District, and sees New York's pre-automobile built form as an asset that makes New York unique in the United States, and as a strategic advantage that should be capitalized upon.
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