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Sadik-Khan: What We Lose Without Congestion Pricing [Updated]
Ben Fried reports live from the City Council congestion pricing hearing, underway at City Hall:
March 24, 2008
Sadik-Khan Set to Testify at City Hall
Streetsblog's Ben Fried reports live from this morning's City Council congestion pricing hearing:
March 24, 2008
Congestion Pricing Bill: Fun With Legalese
After months of following the step-by-step evolution of the congestion pricing proposal, there's a certain satisfaction in seeing familiar concepts codified in legislative language. To wit, we hope readers who've been tracking Streetsblog's coverage of this topic enjoy these excerpts from the bill. Parse away.
March 21, 2008
Details of the Mayor’s Residential Parking Permit Proposal
Potential residential parking permit stickers, curbside regulations, and David Yassky.
March 12, 2008
New Bill Would Bring Crash Studies and Safety Improvements
An aide to City Council Speaker Christine Quinn sent this message late last week concerning new legislation that could bring improvements to dangerous locations for pedestrians and cyclists:
March 10, 2008
Quinn Calls for Comprehensive Citywide Ferry Service
City Council Speaker Christine Quinn made a big pitch for enhanced ferry service in her State of the City Address today:
February 12, 2008
Monday Night: Have Your Say on Parking Policy in Brooklyn
Hot on the heels of this week's neighborhood parking workshops, DOT and several members of Brooklyn's City Council delegation are hosting a forum about residential parking permits. An RPP program with teeth could go a long way towards curbing traffic in residential neighborhoods, and this event is a big opportunity for livable streets advocates to make their voices heard. The forum will take place Monday, 7 p.m. at the St. Francis College auditorium on Remsen Street in Brooklyn Heights. Brownstoner has the details:
February 1, 2008
A “Vision Zero” for New York?
On Tuesday the Bloomberg administration announced record low traffic deaths from 2000 to 2007, and claimed, if not in so many words, that city streets are safer than ever. But the numbers, included on a chart that accompanied this media release, also indicated that 23 cyclists died in 2007. That would make last year -- according to the data released Tuesday, at least -- the deadliest for riders in the eight year period shown.
February 1, 2008
City Numbers Show Highest Cyclist Death Toll in Eight Years
Traffic fatalities in 2007 were at their lowest level since the city began keeping records almost 100 years ago, according to data released today by the Bloomberg administration. However, while the number of pedestrian fatalities last year dropped sharply percentage-wise from 2006, down to roughly one death every two-and-a-half days, cyclist fatalities were up, and pedestrian and cyclist deaths combined accounted for 58.6 percent of the 271 total traffic deaths, the highest such percentage in the past eight years.
January 29, 2008
Will the Tide Turn on City Parking Policy?
A few weeks back Atlantic Yards Report posted a compendium of recent writings that point to the contradictions inherent in, and problems resulting from, parking requirements for urban development plans.
January 15, 2008