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Sean Sweeney Redefines “T.A. StreetBeat”

5:58 PM EDT on May 21, 2009

    • SoHo bike crankSean Sweeney claims that a cyclist punched him in the face. He's got a black eye to prove it. We haven't received the SoHo Alliance press release yet but you can read aboutit in the Downtown Express.
    • State Assembly transportation chair David Gantt is blocking a common sense bill to ban text-messaging while driving and his fellow Democrats are finally realizing that he's a problem. (Buffalo News)
    • Jebediah Reed wipes the floor with New York Magazine's Janette Sadik-Khan profile. (Infrastructurist)
    • WNYC launches its radio series on bus rapid transit with a story out of Bogota, Colombia. That's right: A story about buses on the radio. Who'd have thought?
    • NYC DOT's new Street Design Manual is now available for download.
    • Step aside Simon Cowell. Carly Clark and I have judged and selected the winners of Good Magazine's "Redesign Your Street" contest.
    • LIRR president Helena Williams is named interim CEO of the MTA. Lee Sander steps down tomorrow. (2nd Ave. Sagas)
    • Charles Komanoff argues that the Waxman-Markey greenhouse gas reduction bill isn't going to get the job done. (Grist)
    • It's an exciting time to be a parking policy geek in San Francisco. (Streetsblog SF)
Aaron Naparstek
@naparstek.bsky.social

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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