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Gov’t Employee Parking at the High Bridge Rec Center
A tipster sends along this snapshot of the parking lot... I mean, sidewalk, outside the High Bridge Recreational Center prior to the meeting last night to discuss plans for the revitalized High Bridge. The talk inside, she says, "was much more encouraging" than the government employee parking situation outside.
June 21, 2007
“Modal Bias” on Brian Lehrer Today at 11:20 am
Streetsblog editor Aaron Naparstek will be talking with Brian and others about why motorists, cyclists and pedestrians don't seem to get along too well these days. Feel free to call in. 93.9 FM. From the WNYC web site:
June 21, 2007
How Americans Get to Work
According to a new U.S. Census Bureau analysis of data from the American Community Survey, most Americans drive to work -- alone, and public transportation commuters are concentrated in a handful of large cities. From the Bureau's press release:
June 19, 2007
The Perfect Argument for Congestion Pricing
The Staten Island Advance ran an article last Thursday about a "perfect storm" of crushing Staten Island-bound traffic on the Gowanus Expressway and the Verrazano-Narrows Bridge. To give you a sense of the frustrated tone of the article, it was entitled "21-Month Nightmare: Agency Offers Zero Solutions for Verrazano Lane Mess." Here's how it began:
June 19, 2007
An Old Car Interred
Bud & Walter Brewer Collection/Tulsa Historical Society, via The New York Times.
June 18, 2007
City Transit Commuters: A Modest Assessment
Given some of the unfathomable declarations floated in the name of opposition to congestion pricing ("We have to do something about the pedestrians"), it's hard not to wonder what goes on in the minds of those who so passionately reject any perceived infringement upon their "right" to clog the streets and poison the air for "free."
June 14, 2007
New Bike Lanes Won’t Leave Room for Escalade Double-Parking!
Across the Park, a blog dedicated to Brooklyn's Prospect Lefferts Gardens neighborhood, notes the striping of new bike lanes on Lincoln Road and Maple Street, just to the east of Prospect Park. We assume that this is meant to be read with an ironic tone, though, you really never know in Brooklyn these days:
June 12, 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