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Assembly Member Deborah Glick: Angry Fence-Sitter
New Jersey traffic headed toward Chelsea Tuesday evening
March 19, 2008
DOT Study Measures Lower Manhattan Placard Abuse
A Department of Transportation study released Friday shows just how out of control placard parking is in Manhattan.
March 17, 2008
Eyes on the Street: Taking the Lane
From a Streetsblog tipster comes this shot of five of the city's 142,000 placard-bearing vehicles parked in the bike lane on Lafayette Street between Franklin and White.
March 14, 2008
Car-Free Washington Place? Not in My Driveway, Say Residents
A rendering in section of NYU's proposal for a pedestrian-only Washington Place, between Washington Square Park and Broadway.
March 7, 2008
Is an NYPD Bike Crackdown Underway?
Even before the NYPD identified a hooded cyclist as the this morning's likely Times Square bomber, two reports of bike commuters being ticketed and harassed by the police have already hit the Streetsblog inbox. Perhaps it's just that the weather's getting nicer and more people happen to be out on bikes but at least one cyclist says an officer told him that the police are gearing up yet another organized "crack down" on cyclists.
March 6, 2008
Denny Farrell: Less Traffic and Pollution? No Thanks.
Just two of the 17 members of the Traffic Congestion Mitigation Commission, Assemblymen Richard Brodsky and Herman "Denny" Farrell, voted against the revised congestion pricing plan that now awaits approval by the City Council and state legislators, all of which must happen by March 31 if the city is to receive $354 million in federal funds for upfront citywide transit improvements.
March 3, 2008
A Conversation About New York Streets — Get In Free
The Museum of the City of New York is offering Streetsblog readers free admission to what should be an interesting panel discussion tomorrow evening: "Spotlight on Design: Innovation in New York's Streets." Here's more on the event:
February 27, 2008