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Opposition Brewing to DOT’s Proposal for 9th Street Bike Lanes
Tonight, 6:30 pm at Old First Church on 7th Avenue and Carroll Street, the transportation committee of Brooklyn Community Board 6 hosts a blockbuster follow-up meeting to the "One-Way? No Way!" extravaganza of March 15.
March 29, 2007
Insta-Bus Rapid Transit for Lower Manhattan
The Daily News and New York Sun have more details on DOT's plan to speed up buses on Broadway south of Houston Street.
March 12, 2007
Quick Bus and Ped Improvements Coming to Lower Broadway
Nope, that's not Lower Manhattan. It's an example of a "bus bulb" in Edgewater, Chicago, a neighborhood known for its thoughtful planning and pedestrian-friendly streets.
March 11, 2007
40,000+ U.S. Buses Are Equipped With Bike Racks. None in NYC.
Via the National Center for Bicycling & Walking's Centerlines Newsletter, the National Center for Transit Research reports:
February 9, 2007
Making Hell’s Kitchen Less Hellish
Monday night was the first meeting of the Ninth Avenue Renaissance project. About 130 neighborhood stakeholders filled the gym at the Holy Cross School in Midtown to begin a process to transform Ninth Avenue from a dysfunctional, traffic-choked, polluted highway into, what organizer Christine Berthet says should be "a neighborhood Main Street" for Hell's Kitchen and Clinton.
January 10, 2007
Day Two: Ten Things for Governor Spitzer to Fix
Eliot Spitzer's campaign for governor promised, "Day One: Everything Changes." Well, it's Day Two and it's time to govern. Much of New York City's transportation policy rests in the hands of Albany legislators and agency officials. Here are ten things that the new governor can do to make New York City's streets more livable and transportation policy more sensible. Feel free to add more to the list in the comments section.
January 3, 2007
Three Concrete Proposals for New York City Traffic Relief
This Morning's Forum: Road Pricing Worked in London. Can It Work in New York?
December 7, 2006
Curbside Space Wars
Private cars blocking service vehicles on W. 86th St. between Columbus and Amsterdam
November 28, 2006