“A Perverse Allocation of Public Space on the Upper West Side”
As we lead up to next Tuesday's big Upper West Side Streets Renaissance workshop with Jan Gehl (have you submitted your RSVP yet?) here is another StreetFilm delving in to the kinds of issues we hope to be talking about.
November 2, 2007
Profiles in Discouragement: Pols Defend Traffic Status Quo
Council member Lew Fidler delivers his Tax & Tunnel plan to the Commission.
November 2, 2007
Fact Check: Congestion Pricing is Not a “Regressive Tax”
One of the most oft-repeated slams against congestion pricing we heard at this week's Congestion Mitigation Committee hearings is that congestion pricing would be a "regressive tax," an unfair burden to poorer New Yorkers.
November 2, 2007
Bloomberg Declares Support for a National Carbon Tax
New York Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg will
declare his support today for a national carbon tax, according to a
report posted this morning on the New York Times City Room blog by
metro reporter Sewell Chan:
November 2, 2007
Today’s Headlines
Brooklynites Are Sick of Almost Getting Killed on Cortelyou Rd. (Ditmas Blog) You Read the Plan, Now Watch Fidler Explain the Thinking Behind It (Politicker) Brodsky Calls Fidler’s Tax & Tunnel Transpo Plan “Workable, Bold” (Sun) The Villain of Traffic: The Driver-Only Car (NYT) Bloomberg Will Speak on Climate at Mayor’s Conference (Sun) A Penn … Continued
November 2, 2007
Low Turnout But Surprising Support at Bronx Congestion Hearing
Erik Shilling reports:
November 1, 2007
Lew Fidler’s “9 CARAT STONE” Traffic Plan Arrives
On Saturday we received the following mysterious e-mail in the Streetsblog tips box:
November 1, 2007
Ped Struck as Cab Runs Into Storefront at 53rd and Madison
David Dartley sends this in: Perhaps it’s just as well that I only had the crappy camera on my cell phone and you can’t see much detail. A taxi had smashed into a storefront on Madison Ave. just above 53rd St. On the other side of a taxi, there was a person lying face-down on … Continued
November 1, 2007
Today’s Headlines
Region Faces Biggest Round of Fare and Toll Increases in Decades (NYT) Lew Fidler Proposes Zillion $$$ Congestion Pricing Alternative Tonight (Politicker) Congress: Funding Amtrak is a Bargain (NYT) Residential Parking Permits Would Help Cyclists (Brooklyn Paper) Increasing Demand is Likely to Keep Oil Prices High (NYT) Climate Change and the Politics of Fear (CityRoom) … Continued
November 1, 2007