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Janette Sadik-Khan: A Reason to Love NYC in 2007
New York Magazine's third annual "Reasons to Love New York City" issue hits newsstands this week. Reason #35? "Because the Head of the Department of Transportation is a Cycling Radical." While I'm not so sure that's a completely accurate description of the Commish, Anthony Weiss nicely sums up the change underway at DOT:
December 17, 2007
Congestion Pricing: Bloomberg Needs to Sweeten the Deal
Webster Avenue and Fordham Road, the Bronx
December 14, 2007
Running the Christmas Tree Gauntlet
Photo: Lars Klove, Sixth Avenue and 13th Street, Manhattan.
December 14, 2007
Welcome to NYCstreets
You may have noticed the new tab at the top of Streetsblog and StreetFilms with a link to NYCstreets. If you haven't checked it out yet, it's worth a look. NYCstreets is a place where people interested in improving New York City's streets and public spaces can find online tools, resources and, most importantly -- other people -- to help get organized and make change happen.
December 13, 2007
This Holiday Season London’s Streets Are “Absolutely Jammed”
London retailers enjoyed a £100 million spending spree as Oxford, Bond and Regents Streets were closed to motor vehicle traffic for a day
December 10, 2007
Crashstat 2.0 Reveals NYC’S Most Dangerous Intersections
Crashstat shows Fordham Rd. in the Bronx to be one of the most dangerous streets in New York City.
December 4, 2007
Houston Street Gets Tree-mendous New Sidewalks
We're just catching up to this piece of good news in The Villager last week:
December 3, 2007
Ciclovía: A Moving Experience in Bogotá, Colombia
Recently, I had the opportunity to travel with comrades Karla Quintero of Transportation Alternatives and Streetsblog editor Aaron Naparstek to Bogotá, Colombia to document some of the amazing advances going on in the livable streets movement there. We spent an entire Sunday, from 5am 'til nearly 5pm, riding bicycles around during Ciclovía, a weekly event in which over 70 miles of city streets are closed to traffic and opened to walking, biking, running, skating, recreating, picnicking, and talking with family, neighbors and strangers. Ciclovía was simply one of the most moving experiences I have had in my entire life (no pun intended).
December 3, 2007
Happy Thanksgiving
We do a lot of criticism here on Streetsblog, so in the spirit of the season we thought we'd reflect on what we in the livable streets universe have to be thankful for.
November 21, 2007