Holiday Headlines
Happy New Year and welcome back. Here is a whole pile of stories you may have missed if you were out of town or, like us, taking a break for the holidays. Lots of these items are worthy of their own blog post, so enjoy and get ready for a big year:
January 2, 2008
The Streetsies
All in all it was a great year for New York City's Livable Streets Movement. Here are the winners of our 2007 awards. See you in January...
December 25, 2007
Merry Gridlock!
Streetsblog editor Aaron Naparstek and StreetFilms' Nick Whitaker hit the intersection of Atlantic, Flatbush and Fourth Avenues Thursday morning to see what a "Gridlock Alert Day" looks like at one of New York City's most congested intersections.
December 24, 2007
Stay Tuned for the 2007 Streetsies
On Monday we'll be announcing Streetsblog's coveted year-end awards, the Streetsies. That will be our last post of the year and we'll see you back here the first week of January.
December 21, 2007
Merry Christmas Chinatown
A Streetsblog tipster snapped this photo yesterday afternoon. Note the Starsky & Hutch-style siren on the dashboard of the SUV hanging off the back of that tow truck. The photographer reports that NYPD tow trucks have been racking up the hours in December clearing the streets of Chinatown, and as you can see in the photo above, they are finally "towing their own".
December 21, 2007
Donald Shoup Plays With Parking Fees and Matchbox Cars
During his recent visit to New York, Donald Shoup, professor of Urban Planning at UCLA, sat down with Open Planning Project's Mark Gorton to discuss parking policy and play with Matchbox cars on a miniature New York City street grid.
December 21, 2007
Highlights of Monday’s Traffic Commission Meeting
Westchester Assemblyman Richard Brodsky's claim that congestion pricing "smacks the middle class" was not challenged by reporters after Monday's meeting despite a recent IBO report that says otherwise. Brodsky said a carbon tax would be fairer and praised Mayor Bloomberg for suggesting it.
December 19, 2007
Janette Sadik-Khan: A Reason to Love NYC in 2007
New York Magazine's third annual "Reasons to Love New York City" issue hits newsstands this week. Reason #35? "Because the Head of the Department of Transportation is a Cycling Radical." While I'm not so sure that's a completely accurate description of the Commish, Anthony Weiss nicely sums up the change underway at DOT:
December 17, 2007