Aaron Naparstek

On Monday, April 23, the day after Earth Day and the Mayor's Long-Term Sustainability speech, City Council Speaker Christine Quinn plans to hold a decisive vote on Intro. 331-A, a law limiting and restricting pedicabs. Mayor Bloomberg vetoed the bill but rather than going back and trying to improve the legislation by, say, simply increasing the cap on the number of pedicab licenses, Quinn has been twisting Council members arms to override the Mayor's veto.

The north side of 9th Street between 5th and 6th Avenues: Always lots of double-parking.

At her final staff meeting, Department of Transportation Commissioner Iris Weinshall told the assembled that City Hall is still looking for a "transportation person" but has not reached a final decision. First Deputy Commissioner Judy Bergtraum will be named as Acting Commissioner until the deal is done.

Department of Transportation Commissioner Iris Weinshall's last day on the job is this coming Friday, April 13.

Community Board 6 was grumpy about the idea of bike lanes on 9th Street.

Print this DocumentNinth Street at Eighth Avenue in Park Slope, outside of Dizzy's Diner.

Last night the transportation committee of Manhattan Community Board 2 voted 8 to 1 to:

Park Slope's 9th Street corridor, with Prospect Park on one end and the Battery Tunnel on the other, has long been known as one of the most dangerous streets in the neighborhood when it comes to car crashes.

From Alternet, the following is an excerpted version of James Howard Kunstler's recent speech to the Commonwealth Club of California, well worth reading in its entirety. An audio stream of the speech is also available:

Below is a sketch of DOT's plan for 9th Street in Park Slope, Brooklyn. We think it's a great plan deserving of support. The new configuration narrows a notoriously dangerous four lane road down to two travel lanes and adds a median with left-turn bays and a pair of bike lanes with three-foot buffers.