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City’s Parking Expansion Sustains Nothing but Motoring
From the Tri-State Transportation Campaign's latest newsletter, three examples of how City Hall contradicts its stated Long-Term Planning and Sustainability goals with policies that foster more automobile dependence:
April 12, 2007
CB6 Asks DOT to Find a Final Solution to the “Bicycle Problem”
Community Board 6 was grumpy about the idea of bike lanes on 9th Street.
April 12, 2007
City Pitches in for Yankee Stadium Parking
What could be worse than replacing neighborhood parks with private parking decks, built with the specific intent of increasing car trips by the tens of thousands through a community already suffering from so much disease-causing pollution that its nickname is "Asthma Alley"?
April 9, 2007
Sneak Peek at DOT’s Plan for Park Slope’s 9th Street
Note: Below is the most recent update of DOT's 9th Street plan.
March 29, 2007
Should DOT Install Separated Bike Lanes on 9th Street?
I will not be able to attend tonight's big meeting in Brooklyn so I really hope that someone will ask DOT about this and report back on what they say:
March 29, 2007
Vanderbilt Avenue: The Model for DOT’s 9th Street Proposal?
As noted elsewhere, tonight the transportation committee of Brooklyn Community Board 6 will consider a plan by DOT to redesign 9th Street from Third Avenue to Prospect Park West in Park Slope, Brooklyn.
March 29, 2007
A Tale of Two DOT Plans
Looking down Park Slope's 9th Street at Prospect Park West. They call this "excess capacity."
March 29, 2007
Opposition Brewing to DOT’s Proposal for 9th Street Bike Lanes
Tonight, 6:30 pm at Old First Church on 7th Avenue and Carroll Street, the transportation committee of Brooklyn Community Board 6 hosts a blockbuster follow-up meeting to the "One-Way? No Way!" extravaganza of March 15.
March 29, 2007
Ungrateful Liberal Scum, “We Do Not Summons Our Own.”
A certain sense of entitlement emerges in the UncivilServants comments section. Posted verbatim, no spelling check:
March 28, 2007
Streetfilms: George Washington Parked Here
StreetFilms' Sean Clifford discovers that one of New York City government employees' favorite illegal parking spots in Downtown Brooklyn happens to be the last vestige of a historic road that played a significant role in the Revolutionary War. Alas, did George Washington's brave regiment of Marylanders sacrifice their lives at Gowanus so that government employees could park all over the sidewalk on Red Hook Lane?
March 26, 2007