Bill de Blasio

Transportation didn't get much airtime during last night's debate between Bill de Blasio and Joe Lhota, but the candidates did trade a few jabs. Over the course of the debate, which aired on WABC, the pair fielded a handful of questions on MTA fares, traffic enforcement, waste management, and development -- with Lhota at one point deriding Robert Moses.

Yesterday, New York City Democrats chose the candidate who's campaigned as the anti-Bloomberg. But on issues of traffic safety and surface transit, Bill de Blasio, despite some wavering, has pledged to build on the current administration's progress while tackling the unfinished business of reforming the NYPD's approach to traffic violence. And with several City Council candidates endorsed by the newly-formed StreetsPAC winning hotly contested primaries, the results of last night's election bode well for livable streets in NYC over the next four years. As StreetsPAC board member Eric McClure put it, "It's clear from the results of the primary that support for safe and complete streets has gone mainstream."

Yesterday StreetsPAC endorsed Bill de Blasio for mayor in the Democratic primary, after narrowing their choice down to him and Christine Quinn. The decision was based on the candidates' responses to a written questionnaire and sit-down interviews with the StreetsPAC board.

With the Democratic primary a week away, StreetsPAC, NYC's first-ever livable streets political action committee, today endorsed Bill de Blasio to succeed Michael Bloomberg as mayor.

In the final installment of this summer's "Flashback Friday" series, featuring musty digital footage from the Streetfilms vault, we present these clips from the Brooklyn Greenway Initiative's 2002 bike tour of the waterfront near downtown Brooklyn. If you're like me, you might find yourself rewatching this video artifact a few times over the long weekend.

As if on cue, Bill de Blasio today released a plan to reduce city traffic fatalities to zero within 10 years.

Elevated from the headline stack: CBS radio reporter Steve Scott elicited the following response from mayoral candidate Bill de Blasio on the subject of bike lanes. It's got a touch more specificity than the norm:

Bill de Blasio's mayoral campaign released a wide-ranging policy book today, with a transportation platform that emphasizes the expansion of Select Bus Service, a "Vision Zero" approach to street safety, and the continued growth of the city's bike lane and bike-share networks. De Blasio also pledges to target upzonings and new housing near transit and to build more permeable street surfaces to absorb stormwater.

Public Advocate Bill de Blasio has given NYPD an "F" for its record of withholding information from the public.