Auto-Free New York: Robert Sullivan: Why Aren’t NYC’s Streets More Walkable?
The monthly meeting of Auto-Free New York will feature remarks by Robert Sullvian, contributing editor to Vogue magazine and author of Rats and Cross Country.
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The Times is a Changin’
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A chart illustrating the number who commute by auto to the Central Business District from Bruce Schaller’s study for the Manhattan Institute, Battling Traffic: What New Yorkers Think About Road Pricing. A great story on New York City traffic congestion, In Traffic’s Jam, Who’s Driving May Be Surprising, ran on the front page of the […]
Supermodels Demand an Auto-Free New York
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Remember the orange bikes locked up all around Manhattan during Fashion Week that managed to outrage the NYPD and Ghost Bike memorialists in equal measure? It turns out they weren’t just an advertisement for fashion house DKNY, they were part of a comprehensive "fashion plan to eliminate all motor vehicles in NYC by the year […]
A Transit Miracle on 34th Street
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NYC DOT is proposing to turn Manhattan’s 34th Street into a river-to-river "transitway." In what she half-jokingly called "probably the first-ever co-presentation" between their two agencies, Department of Transportation Commissioner Janette Sadik-Khan stood with New York City Transit President Howard Roberts earlier this week to unveil the city’s current Bus Rapid Transit program in its […]
OPINION: We Can Have Nice Things … Once We Get Rid of King Car
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Europe has great public places. A walk or bike ride from Borough Hall to City Hall across an auto-free Brooklyn Bridge would equal any of them.
“Modal Bias” on Brian Lehrer Today at 11:20 am
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Streetsblog editor Aaron Naparstek will be talking with Brian and others about why motorists, cyclists and pedestrians don’t seem to get along too well these days. Feel free to call in. 93.9 FM. From the WNYC web site: Why cyclists, drivers and pedestrians can’t just get along, with Aaron Naparstek, editor of Streetsblog, a blog […]
Robert Rodriguez Introduces Toll Reform Bill in State Assembly
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For the first time, a state legislator is sponsoring legislation in Albany to enact the Move NY toll reform plan. By creating a more rational toll system in New York City, the plan would significantly reduce traffic and raise revenue to invest in improving transit. Assembly Member Robert Rodriguez introduced a bill today, A09633, that would […]