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Flashback Friday: 2002 Brooklyn Greenway Ride With Schumer and de Blasio
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.
August 30, 2013
Bill de Blasio Outlines His “Vision Zero” Plan
As if on cue, Bill de Blasio today released a plan to reduce city traffic fatalities to zero within 10 years.
August 7, 2013
De Blasio: Bike Lanes That Replace Parking Spots, Travel Lanes Are Worth It
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:
June 26, 2013
De Blasio Lays Out Ambitious Goals for Street Safety, Better Buses, Bicycling
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.
June 19, 2013
De Blasio Gives NYPD an “F” on Transparency
Public Advocate Bill de Blasio has given NYPD an "F" for its record of withholding information from the public.
April 23, 2013
At Transit Forum, Albanese, Allon, and Carrión Support Rational Tolls
Friday's transit forum hosted by Transit Workers Union Local 100 and a coalition of rider advocacy groups offered an opportunity for a more more detailed discussion of transit policy than this year's mayoral race has seen so far. While the candidates offered few specifics about how they would improve transit for the millions of New Yorkers who depend on trains and buses, clear differences emerged, especially on the question of how to increase funding for the debt-ridden MTA.
February 25, 2013
London Mayor: Get Bigshots Out of Cars, Onto Transit “Like Everybody Else”
London Mayor Boris Johnson, whose entertaining quotes about Mike Bloomberg have been ricocheting around New York's political circles today, could teach a thing or two to the candidates running for mayor here in NYC. Yesterday, "Boris from Islington" called in to a radio talk show with a recorded question for Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg about Parliament's profligate spending on cars for political leaders. It's a question New Yorkers can appreciate.
February 8, 2013
Toeing the NBBL Line, Bill de Blasio Runs for Mayor of 9 PPW
Bill de Blasio's comments in today's Brooklyn Paper are straight out of the "Neighbors for Better Bike Lanes" playbook.
February 6, 2013
Why Is Bill de Blasio Afraid of Safer, Saner Streets?
It was hard to miss mayoral candidate Bill de Blasio as he made the media rounds yesterday. After positioning himself as the "outer borough" candidate on the local Fox morning show, de Blasio -- who voted against congestion pricing and the transit funds that would have come with it -- traveled to Washington Heights to shake hands with straphangers.
January 29, 2013
NYPD: Bus Driver Who Ran Woman Over Did Nothing Wrong
The bus driver who ran over and killed a woman in Canarsie last Friday broke no laws, according to NYPD.
January 28, 2013