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Eyes on the Street: Five Borough Bike Tour
What a big weekend for public cycling events. This Sunday, more than 30,000 cyclists enjoyed perfect weather for the 30th anniversary of the Five Borough Bike Tour, a 42-mile traffic free ride through the city including a jaunt along the Gowanus Expressway in Brooklyn. It is the largest recreational cycling event in America.
May 7, 2007
Bus Bulbs Useless Without Enforcement
A story about the new bus bulbs on Lower Broadway in the New York Times highlights the role that enforcement will have to play if DOT's plan to make the boulevard more bus-friendly is to work. (Bus Rapid Transit, of course, will face similar issues when it rolls out later this year.) The story points out that Broadway's current bus lane -- bus bulbs or no -- is often blocked by double-parked delivery and placarded vehicles.
April 27, 2007
Media (Mostly) Give PlaNYC Its Due
When Malcom Murray-Clark, Director of Congestion Charging at Transport for London, visited New York last month, he cited negative media coverage as a major obstacle to implementing the congestion charge in the English capital. By contrast, unlike some, New York media on balance appear willing to give PlaNYC, and congestion pricing, the benefit of the doubt -- at least for now.
April 25, 2007
Electeds React to Congestion Pricing
Forty-eight hours in, here is what some elected officials are saying about PlaNYC and congestion pricing.
April 24, 2007
Council Overrides Pedicab Veto
NY1 is reporting that the City Council has voted to override Mayor Bloomberg's veto of its pedicab bill.
April 23, 2007
CB2 Signs Off On Prince-Bleecker Bike Lanes
After over an hour of public comment, and another hour of deliberation,
Community Board 2 last night voted to recommend the DOT proceed with bike lanes
parallel to Houston Street, to be located primarily on Prince and Bleecker.
April 20, 2007
SoHo Car Owners Mobilizing to Save Parking, Fight Bike Lanes
The SoHo Alliance is at it again. The neighborhood organization that specializes in persecuting street vendors and artists rather than helping to figure out ways to carve out a bit of street space for them and all of the people over-spilling SoHo's sidewalks, is now mobilizing against the City's plan to install new bike lanes along Prince and Bleecker Streets.
April 18, 2007
Bus Bulbs Are Blooming
According to a more-than-a-little-snarky post on Curbed, the first of Lower Broadway's hotly anticipated bus bulbs has been constructed on Broadway south of Spring Street.
April 18, 2007
Are Phone Booths on Ninth Avenue a Pedestrian Menace?
As reported in Sunday's City section of the Times (Times Select required), residents of Hell's Kitchen are concerned that the placement of a double phone booth at the corner of 45th St. and Ninth Ave. may have been a contributing factor in two pedestrian fatalities at that intersection.
April 18, 2007