East Harlem CB Approves Protected Bike Lanes for First and Second Avenues
East Harlem's Community Board 11 last night approved, again, plans to build protected bike lanes and pedestrian refuge islands on First and Second Avenues. The vote comes after a lengthy public debate in which the community fought for the lanes and the board approved them, only to take back its support after local businesses protested.
March 21, 2012
Two-Way Bike Lane Will Cross Central Park Along 72nd Street
This summer, cyclists will have a second path to safely cross Central Park.
March 20, 2012
How Mexico City Fought and Cajoled to Reclaim Streets for Pedestrians
This is the first in a series of reports about sustainable transportation policies in Mexico City. Last week, Streetsblog participated in a tour of the city led by the Institute for Transportation and Development Policy and funded by the Rockefeller Foundation. Upcoming installments will cover the city's transit expansions, particularly its new bus rapid transit lines, and its bicycle planning.
March 19, 2012
East Harlem Community Board to Take Final Bike Lane Vote Tomorrow
After a long and circuitous path, the fate of protected bike lanes on East Harlem's First and Second Avenues may be decided in a community board vote Tuesday night.
March 19, 2012
Quinn Deal Reduces Parking — and Housing — at St. Vincent’s Site
Responding to requests from the community board and advocacy groups, City Council Speaker Christine Quinn did what neither the City Planning Commission nor Borough President Scott Stringer would: reduce the excessive number of parking spaces planned for the Rudin family's redevelopment of the St. Vincent's Hospital site.
March 16, 2012
Orange County, New Rochelle, Wesley Hills Join Push for TZB Transit
The calls for rapid transit on the Tappan Zee Bridge are coming from more places across the Hudson Valley. This week Orange County Executive Edward Diana joined his colleagues in Westchester and Rockland Counties to demand that bus rapid transit be built on the new Tappan Zee span. Local governments on both sides of the river, too, continue to sign on in support of new cross-county transit, which the Cuomo administration removed from the project, disregarding a decade of public planning.
March 15, 2012
Reforms to Parking Minimums on the Table for Many NYC Neighborhoods
Last month, the New York Times gave some much-deserved attention to the parking reforms working their way through the Department of City Planning. In a pair of articles, real estate reporter Marc Santora revealed how efforts to reform the city's outdated parking minimums, which promote driving and make housing less affordable, are progressing. (Santora unfortunately made a number of factual errors -- misstating the extent of parking maximums in Manhattan, for example.)
March 12, 2012