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Tonight: Traffic-Calming Mural Preview & Fundraiser
In the Gowanus section of Brooklyn, a group of teenagers is transforming a drab, cinder block wall into a three-story mural to memorialize three children killed on dangerous Third Avenue and to remind motorists to drive safely. The mural is being organized by Transportation Alternatives and Groundswell Community Mural Project and painted under the guidance of acclaimed social activist artists Christopher Cardinale and Nicole Schulman.
August 13, 2007
Thank You for the Extra Car-Free Hour, And…
DOT Commissioner Janette Sadik-Khan celebrates the extra Car-Free hour in Central Park with members of Upper Green Side and Transportation Alternatives
August 13, 2007
Brodsky Killed Congestion Pricing But We Hurt His Feelings
State Assembly Member Richard Brodsky is displeased by the suggestion that his opposition to New York City's congestion pricing plan had anything to do with the fact that he has accepted more money from parking industry interests than any other State Assembly Member and that his district houses the wealthiest Manhattan car commuters in New York State.
July 17, 2007
Brodsky Attacks Critics of His Congestion Pricing Study
On the Brian Lehrer show this morning, Assembly Member Richard Brodsky brushed off reports of his parking industry campaign contributions and TA, RPA and Streetsblog's substantive criticism of his congestion pricing study as a "personal attack."
July 11, 2007
David Byrne on Bicycling in NYC
Transportation Alternatives' Noah Budnick and David Byrne prior to the Manhattan Borough President's "Manhattan on the Move" conference, October 2006.
June 28, 2007
Leave Your iPod at Home Tomorrow
The first annual MAKE MUSIC NEW YORK is coming to New York tomorrow, Thursday, June 21.
June 20, 2007
Call for Ped Safety Measures on Third and Fourth Avenues
A third-grader was hit on her way to school here two weeks ago.
June 11, 2007
Car-Free Sundays Return to the Bronx
In the early 1990's three and a half miles of the Grand Concourse, a major arterial roadway
in the Bronx, was closed to cars every Sunday from July through November (kind of like Bogota Colombia's Ciclovia).
The closures provided residents with much-needed open space to bike, walk, play and develop a sense of community with neighbors.
Despite its popularity, New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani killed the
program in 1996.
June 7, 2007
T.A.: City, State Parking Drive Would Torpedo Taxi Initiative
The increase in CO2 caused by over 20,000 parking spaces sought by the city would "effectively take away
more than one-third of the gains" promised by Mayor Bloomberg's hybrid cab plan.
June 5, 2007
NYPD Raid Nets Bikes and Bystanders
This entry on the Village Voice Blog by Laura Conaway tells the story of an NYPD raid on parked bicycles last Wednesday night. When two residents questioned the officer in charge, they were arrested:
June 5, 2007