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02:35 PM
PSAs Rock! Watch the Winners of TA’s “Biking Rules” Video Contest : As you may know, Transportation Alternatives put on a red carpet premiere Tuesday night for the "Biking Rules" PSA competition at the Brooklyn Academy of Music....
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01:05 PM
Sunday and Monday: Bike Rack Roundup and CB Jammy Jam : Don't miss back-to-back opportunities to get involved in changing your city over the next few days....
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01:05 PM
The Weekly Carnage : The Weekly Carnage is a Friday round-up of motor vehicle mayhem across the metro region....
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11:35 AM
In Progress: A More Walkable, Bikeable, Trottable Park Circle : A protected bike path will soon wrap around the circumference of Park Circle....
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08:35 AM
It’s Official: Chicago Parking Privatization a Massive Rip-Off : City parking meters are a gold mine, and in Chicago, Morgan Stanley is rolling in parking riches....
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08:35 AM
To Thrive, Suburbs Might Become More Urban : A very interesting article in USA Today on the future viability of suburbs came up in our Twitter feed this morning, via Community Research Partners of Columbus, Ohio....
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07:05 AM
Coming Soon: @FakeAlbany : Here's a fun time-waster. Since Monday, @FakeMTA has been posting faux transit updates on Twitter. Examples: "Sneak peak at completed Second Ave....
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07:05 AM
Today’s Headlines : The U.S.-China Electric Car Pact Won't Do a Thing to Improve Energy-Efficient City Living (Dot Earth) Chicago Alderman: We Shoulda Raised Meter Rates Ourselves and Kept the Cash (NYT/CNC)...
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Nov 19
$266 Million to Widen the Deegan. Crumbs for a More Livable Bronx River. : More lanes, or more housing and parks? Image of proposed Deegan Expressway widening: NYSDOT....
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Nov 19
Wanted: Your Photos of Kids on Bikes : (Photo: Richard Masoner of Cyclelicious)Hey, we need your help again for our next slide show. This one is going to make you feel good....
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Nov 19
Streetsblog Capitol Hill Q&A: Four Questions For Rob Puentes : America's transportation and infrastructure policies affect literally everyone who moves from place to place in the country, but often they are under-discussed and over-simplified by the mainstream me...
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Nov 19
In Third Term, Bloomberg Must Align All Agencies With PlaNYC : We continue our series on the next four years of New York City transportation and planning policy with today's essay by Ron Shiffman....
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Nov 19
Blaming the Pedestrian, Again : Despite the growing national attention to the dangers posed by distracted driving, full accountability for drivers who kill or maim pedestrians while fiddling with electronic devices is likely a long...
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Nov 19
City Council Parking Giveaway Will Bring More Gridlock : New Yorkers could spend a third of a million more hours a year stuck in traffic if the “grace period” for parking violations voted by the City Council this week becomes law....
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Nov 19
Today’s Headlines : 2010 MTA Budget, Balanced on a Pin, Contains No Fare Hikes or Service Cuts (NY1, News, Post) To Create More Jobs, Pass a Jobs Bill That Funds Transit Service (MTR) Paterson Signs Leandra's...
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Nov 18
If a New Car Can Demolish an Old One, How Is a Human Expected to Fare? : To mark its 50th anniversary, the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety recently pitted a 1959 Chevrolet Bel Air against its contemporary counterpart, a 2009 Malibu, in a 40 mph crash test....
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Nov 18
Port Authority Work Puts GWB Sidewalks on Shifts : Streetsblog has gotten word that, due to Port Authority construction and maintenance work, the north and south sidewalks of the George Washington Bridge will be closing intermittently until further no...
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Nov 18
World-Class Avenues for the East Side: What Great BRT Looks Like : BRT + bike: East Side avenues have enough space for physically separated busways and protected bike lanes....
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Nov 18
Bipartisan Support Builds for Six-Month Extension of Current Transpo Law : The senior Republicans on three of the Senate's four infrastructure-centric committees signed a bipartisan letter on Tuesday asking the leaders of Congress' upper chamber to call up a six-month extens...
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Nov 18
U.S. DOT Secretary Gets a Message on Pedestrian Safety : We've got a fine sampling of content from the Streetsblog Network today. First, Steve Davis at Transportation for America reports on the meeting T4A and several of its partners had with U.S....
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Nov 18
Streetfilms Shorties: West Side Highway Crash Aftermath : A crash shut down the southbound West Side Highway for about two hours during the morning rush yesterday....
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Nov 18
Today’s Headlines : DOT: East Side BRT "Might" Include Physically Separated Lanes (News) Bloomberg, Cut This Cost: 2,400 City Employees Drive to Work in City-Owned Cars (News) Assembly Passes Leandra's Law, I...
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Nov 17
Streetfilms: Veronica Moss Goes to Times Square : She's back! Veronica Moss, D.C. lobbyist for the Automobile User Trade Organization (A.U.T.O.), recently returned to New York to get her first look at the new, pedestrian-friendly Times Square....
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Nov 17
Use Your Phone to Find Parking! Just, Um, Not While Driving. : Try as they might, City Council members haven't cornered the market on ridiculous, counterproductive on-street parking "solutions." Now making its way to your neighborhood: "Parking Around Me," a new...
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Nov 17
High Hopes — And Higher Standards — for Bloomberg 3.0 : Our series on the next four years of NYC transportation policy continues with today's essay from Joan Byron, Director of the Pratt Center for Community Development's Sustainability and Environment...
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Nov 17
Hudson Greenway “Cherry Walk” Users to Remain in the Dark : Nighttime visibility on the Hudson River Greenway north of W....
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Nov 17
How to Get More People Walking in Cincinnati? : Today on the Streetsblog Network, member blog UrbanCincy notes with deserved pride that Cincinnati was ranked the seventh-safest large city for pedestrians in the nation in Transportation for America'...
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Nov 17
Today’s Headlines : Windshield Perspective Rules as Council Makes Mockery of Parking Laws (News, NYT, Post, Observer) Silver Yields on Leandra's Law; Bill Requires Ignition Interlocks for Convicted DWI Offenders (N...
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Nov 16
The Case for a Car-Free Halloween : So, I hope you'll forgive me for posting these Halloween pictures halfway through November....
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Nov 16
City Takes Small Step Toward Traffic Justice as Silver Continues to Obstruct : City district attorneys and NYPD have reached an agreement that could speed the process of collecting blood evidence from drunk driving suspects who refuse to take breath tests....
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Nov 16
Feds Propose to Expand Opportunities for Biking and Walking to Transit : When it comes to infrastructure improvements that encourage more people to walk or bicycle to transit stations, how long will commuters be willing to travel?...
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Nov 16
First Post-Election Business for City Council: Making Traffic Worse : Looks like the City Council is ready to assert itself in the wake of Michael Bloomberg's underwhelming re-election to a third term....
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Nov 16
“Building Cities Shouldn’t Be a Partisan Issue” : Over the weekend, we came across an article from the Isthmus of Madison, Wisconsin, reporting on a conservative scaremongering campaign against a commuter rail proposal....
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Nov 16
This Week: Community Boards, Pedestrian Planning, Bike Films : If you're into bikes-in-buildings and community boards -- and really, who isn't -- there are two deadlines coming up for events to be held next Monday....
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Nov 16
Today’s Headlines : City Council Wants Its Lax Parking Enforcement Law, Has the Votes to Override Bloomberg (AMNY) Hit-and-Run Driver Kills Bronx Woman at Grand Concourse; CT Man Killed on Bx River Parkway (News)...
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Nov 13
Help Uncover the Truth About Traffic Violence : Want to channel your anger over pedestrian and cyclist crashes into productive action? Livable Streets member BicyclesOnly has a plan for you....
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Nov 13
Transit in Trouble Where You Live : Let's get one thing straight right off the bat: We love transit. Love love love. But that's why we hate it so much when transit infrastructure and transit riders are neglected. And they are....
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Nov 13
Status Report: DOT Considering Bike Facilities in East Side BRT Plan : A quick update on the status of bike infrastructure in the city's plans for the East Side....
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Nov 13
DOT Says Inwood Bike Shelter Didn’t Get Enough Use : Impromptu bike parking on Dyckman Street after the de-installation of a bike shelter, which for a year stood on the fresh patch of concrete in the background....
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Nov 13
The Weekly Carnage : The Weekly Carnage is a Friday round-up of motor vehicle mayhem across the metro region....
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Nov 13
Bus Rapid Transit Designs for East Side Avenues Still in Flux : Earlier this week DOT and the MTA showed plans for Bus Rapid Transit on the east side of Manhattan to the Seaport/Civic Center committee of Community Board 1....
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Nov 13
Message to Florida DOT: Time for Real Change Is Now : Today on the Streetsblog Network, we've got a powerful demand for safer streets in Florida....
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Nov 13
Today’s Headlines : No Mention of Separated Bus Lanes as MTA and DOT Pitch BRT to Manhattan CB1 (Downtown Exp) Bring on the Protected Bike Lanes for the East Side (Our Town) DOT Presents Package of Changes fo...
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Nov 12
Eyes on the Street: Access Denied : Photo: GothamistHere's another case of dangerously uncivil servitude, via Gothamist's John Del Signore, who came upon an Access-A-Ride driver parked in the elevated Sands Street bike lane....
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Nov 12
Civil Servants Behaving Badly, With Deadly Results. What Can Be Done? : The killing of Seth Kahn by MTA bus driver Jeremy Philhower was the fourth instance in a recent spate of pedestrian deaths at the hands of public employees, either on or off the job....
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Nov 12
Streetfilms: Bill Lind, a Conservative Voice for Transit : At last month's Rail-Volution conference in Boston, Streetfilms was able to grab a few moments with William Lind, a politically conservative transit advocate and former congressman....
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Nov 12
Report: Even After MN Bridge Collapse, Transpo Earmarks Shun Repair : In the wake of the 2007 collapse of Minnesota's I-35 bridge, Washington policymakers vowed a renewed focus on repairing the nation's aging infrastructure....
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Nov 12
State DOT’s Misplaced Priorities: Widening Highways While Bridges Crumble : Earlier this week we asked why the state Department of Transportation still thinks it's a good idea to widen highways in the middle of dense urban neighborhoods....
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Nov 12
Taxi Surcharges and Congestion Pricing — They Go Great Together : The surcharge on NYC medallion taxi fares that took effect this month is a bit like a bases-loaded groundout that scores a run but kills a big inning: It does some good, but a ringing base hit could h...
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Nov 12
Tilting at Windmills in Minnesota : The difficulty of changing our ingrained daily habits -- even for our own good, not the health of the planet -- is the subject of today's post from Streetsblog Network member Twin City Sidewalks....
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