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StreetFilms: Bike to Shea
Bike to Shea
A StreetFilm by Sean Clifford
Running Time: 3 minutes 2 seconds
June 3, 2007
Streetsblog Publisher Puts up $250K to Push PlaNYC
Mark Gorton, founder and executive director of the Open Planning Project, the publisher of Streetsblog, has agreed to match up to $250,000 in donations to a Transportation Alternatives campaign promoting Mayor Bloomberg's PlaNYC 2030. Today's Crain's Insider reports:
May 25, 2007
CB6 Committee Unanimously Approves 9th St. Project
The transportation committee of Brooklyn Community Board 6, of which I'm a member, voted unanimously last night to approve DOT's traffic calming and bike lane plan for Park Slope's 9th Street. The approval came with requests that DOT build a bike lane along Prospect Park West, undertake a curbside management study aimed at alleviating double-parking and that the agency monitor the effects of the new street design over the next year.
May 18, 2007
Sadik-Khan Has Two Things Her Predecessors Lacked…
Transportation Alternatives' press release on the naming of Janette Sadik-Khan as New York City's new transportation commissioner doesn't pull any punches when it comes to her predecessors:
April 27, 2007
Rally for Mayor’s Groundbreaking Green Transportation Plan
Stand with Transportation Alternatives and a coalition of environmental, labor, business and community groups who all support the Mayor's proposal for congestion pricing, less driving and more biking, walking and transit.
April 22, 2007
StreetFilm: Room to Breathe
Inspired by a poster produced by Portland's Bicycle Transportation Alliance (BTA) in the mid-1990s, this weekend Transportation Alternatives gathered a gaggle of cyclists on 42nd Street in Manhattan to stage New York's own dramatic illustration of how much street space would be saved if everyone riding an automobile were traveling on a bicycle or bus.
April 2, 2007
Important Meeting for Livable Streets Advocates
Brooklyn Community Board 6's transportation committee will hear presentations and community input on the following items:
March 27, 2007
Parking: If You Build it They Will Come… in Their Cars.
This is the second in a three-part series on New York City parking policy.Part 1: The New York City Parking Boom
March 12, 2007
Old Gray Lady Gets on the Bandwagon
The New York Times came out advocating for progressive transportation policies in its Sunday City section editorial, saying that the departure of DOT Commissioner Iris Weinshall presents "a great opportunity to take bold action on a vexing quality of life and health issue: traffic congestion."
March 5, 2007