Manhattan Community Board 2 Meeting on SoHo Bike Lanes
Livable streets advocates are needed to speak up against arguments by motorists who will complain about parking space loss required to stripe bike lanes on Prince and Bleecker Streets in SoHo.
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DOT Rolls Out the New Lower Manhattan Crosstown Bike Route
By Aaron Naparstek |
The street re-surfacing men and machinery were out in force in Soho last night. Houston Street Bike Safety Initiative Director Ian Dutton snapped this photo on Prince Street. Once the street is repaved, the Department of Transportation will stripe the hotly debated Prince and Bleecker Street bike lanes. Lower Manhattan’s newest east-west bike route is […]
Sean Sweeney: Soho Must Be Preserved for SUVs
By Ben Fried |
Sean Sweeney, the one-man show known as the Soho Alliance, has been sending this video around to the media, continuing his quest to preserve Soho streets for the convenience of motorists. What we basically have here is a careless truck driver butting grilles with a sociopath behind the wheel of an SUV. Sweeney’s conclusion: Give […]
SoHo Car Owners Mobilizing to Save Parking, Fight Bike Lanes
By Aaron Naparstek |
The SoHo Alliance is at it again. The neighborhood organization that specializes in persecuting street vendors and artists rather than helping to figure out ways to carve out a bit of street space for them and all of the people over-spilling SoHo’s sidewalks, is now mobilizing against the City’s plan to install new bike lanes […]
Streetfilms: Good Riddance to Wasted Asphalt
By Brad Aaron |
Before Streetfilms were called Streetfilms, Clarence Eckerson and Streetsblog Publisher Mark Gorton identified Grand Street, with its expanse of asphalt forcing pedestrians to the margins, as a prime spot for space reclamation. Now home to a conniption-inducing parking-protected bike lane, check out this 2005 vid to see why Grand was due for a livable streets […]
Manhattan Community Board 2 Committee Meeting on SoHo Bike Lanes
By Aaron Donovan |
Remember the push for a bike lane on Houston Street? On Tuesday, March 13, the NYC Department of Transportation will present and seek community feedback on: Proposal for new Bleecker and Prince Street bike lanes and routes Lower Manhattan Transit Priority Plan Attend the meeting to show that you support bicycling and transit improvements in Lower Manhattan.
Mime Threat Overshadows Car-Free Prince Street Proposal
By Aaron Naparstek |
If you read the comments on the previous post, then you know something interesting is in the works for Prince Street. Next Tuesday, Community Board 2’s Transportation Committee will consider a proposal to turn a six-block stretch of Prince Street, from Lafayette to West Broadway, into a car-free zone on Sundays from 11am to 6pm. […]