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Bus Riders Warm to Select Bus Service, Drivers Love Red Parking Lane
New York City Transit staff introduce passengers to Bx12 Select Bus Service at Broadway and Isham in Inwood
June 30, 2008
Cleveland Indians Ace Cliff Lee: The Southpaw Straphanger
Cliff Lee's $4 million arm hangs from a subway strap.
May 12, 2008
Councilman Koppell Wants “Sadik-Kahn” Fired Over Turn Signal
More termed-out wackiness from City Hall. Last week, Bronx City Council Member G. Oliver Koppell issued a press release calling for the "resignation or removal" of DOT Commissioner Janette Sadik-Khan. The reason? Koppell wants a left turn signal at 254th Street and Riverdale Avenue, and DOT doesn't think the intersection needs one.
May 6, 2008
A Transit Miracle on 34th Street
NYC DOT is proposing to turn Manhattan's 34th Street into a river-to-river "transitway."
April 17, 2008
Bronx County Courthouse Plaza Gets a Makeover
StreetFilms' Clarence Eckerson took these shots yesterday at the Bronx County Courthouse on Grand Concourse, where an area plagued by illegally parked government employee vehicles has been replaced by a public plaza.
April 11, 2008
NYC’s First Bus Rapid Transit Line Debuts in the Bronx
L-R: Assembly Members José Rivera and Adriano Espaillat, Mayor Michael Bloomberg, DOT Commissioner Janette Sadik-Khan, MTA CEO Lee Sander and Bronx Borough President Adolfo Carrión at Fordham Plaza today
March 25, 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
P.I.D. Stands for Smarter Parking and Cleaner Sidewalks
"Parking Improvement Districts" could help free up parking space and pay for streetscape improvements and maintenance on commercial strips like Kingsbridge Road in the Bronx.
February 12, 2008
Free Parking Addicts Resort to Placard Smash-and-Grabs
The New York Post believes a rash of car break-ins in Washington Heights and the Bronx may be related to the recent Bloomberg administration parking placard crackdown.
February 11, 2008
New Congestion Pricing Plan, Same Jeffrey Dinowitz
The recommendation of a modified congestion pricing plan put forth last week by the Traffic Congestion Mitigation Commission has elicited another editorial from Bronx Assembly Member Jeffrey Dinowitz. Tellingly, the piece, from this week's Riverdale Press, starts off with talking points that fellow Assembly Member Richard Brodsky and "Keep NYC Congestion Tax Free" spokesman Walter McCaffrey have repeated again and again since the TCMC released its recommendation report:
February 8, 2008