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Jul 2
Independence Day Special: The Freedom to Sit : This was the scene at Herald Square yesterday afternoon. It's full of people doing what the Times' Susan Dominus finds so un-New York: sitting down....
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Jul 2
Streetfilms: D.C. DOT Director Talks “Transportation Freedom” : Meet Gabe Klein, who was appointed to direct Washington D.C.'s Department of Transportation (DDOT) in December 2008....
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Jul 2
Action Alert: Tell John Liu to Support Better Bike Commuting in NYC : An important heads up for our New York readers: Before you start grilling this weekend, make sure you sign on to TA's campaign urging John Liu to support the Bicycle Access Bill. Pretty much everyone...
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Jul 2
The Weekly Carnage : The Weekly Carnage is a Friday round-up (a day early this week due to the holiday) of motor vehicle mayhem across the metro region....
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Jul 2
Another Step in Reducing Auto Dependence : If you're a person who is accustomed to getting around the place you live without a car, you've probably spent at least some time trying to sell your auto-dependent friends on the concept....
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Jul 2
Obama Administration’s Transportation Goals: Read Them Here : When the Obama administration proposed an 18-month delay in drafting the next federal transportation bill, U.S....
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Jul 2
Today’s Headlines : Sheer Luck Spares Life of 6 Month Old Baby in NYPD Cruiser Carnage (News) On Transport, Second Ave Sagas Question Straphangers Campaign; Gene Russianoff Responds House Dem on Gas Ta...
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Jul 1
Celebrate Brooklyn With Valet Bike Parking : Thinking of riding your bike to Celebrate Brooklyn this summer but worried about finding a safe and reliable place to lock up?...
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Jul 1
Ask and Ye Shall Receive: Brooklyn CB9 Gets a Bike Lane on Empire Blvd : DOT added bike lanes to its traffic-calming project for Empire Boulevard -- at the request of CB9. Image: NYCDOT....
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Jul 1
Renovation of Crumbling, Dangerous 215th Step-Street Delayed, Again : Residents of Inwood were excited by last year's news that the 215th Step-Street -- a block-long staircase linking Broadway to residential blocks in the northern reaches of the neighborhood -- would so...
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Jul 1
Cities See Population Gains — But What About Political Power? : The Census Bureau has just released new data showing a resurgence of the nation's cities, with New York leading the way and Chicago reversing five years of population decline....
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Jul 1
NYPD Cruiser Carnage: Move Along, Nothing to See Here : Photo: Daily NewsPolice, witness and media accounts vary -- widely -- as to what exactly happened in the East Village yesterday afternoon....
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Jul 1
Mind the Gender Gap : Yesterday's New York Times blog item about why New York women are underrepresented among the city's bike commuters didn't sit well with the authors of Streetsblog Network member Let's Go Ride a Bike....
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Jul 1
Streetfilms: Summer Streets Are Back! : Mayor Michael Bloomberg announced this week the return and expansion of the Summer Streets program along with more than 1,500 free events taking place throughout New York City this summer....
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Jul 1
Today’s Headlines : NYPD: Carnage-Inflicting Squad Car Was Responding to Emergency Call (NYT, News, Gothamist) NJ Judge Clears Driver of All Charges for Killing Cyclist Camille Savoy (Benepe's Bike Blog)...
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Jun 30
Report: NYPD Cruiser Hits Eight Pedestrians on LES [Updated] : A 1010 WINS report appears to confirm a comment from wooDave on what sounds like a horrific pedestrian-involved crash in the East Village: Eight pedestrians have been hurt in a car accident...
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Jun 30
John Liu Stalls Bicycle Access Bill in Committee : A few months ago, John Liu was all for bikes in buildings.After months of negotiations and fine-tuning, the Bicycle Access Bill was expected to come up for a vote in the City Council this aftern...
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Jun 30
Memo to Ray Kelly: How About Barriers for Pedestrians, Too? : This driver suffered a seizure, but not to worry -- the phone booth was protected....
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Jun 30
First Look: A Walkable, Bikeable Gateway to the Brooklyn Bridge : The proposed boulevard-style entryway to the Brooklyn Bridge. Image: NYCDOT. Last week DOT unveiled this conceptual plan for a better gateway to the Brooklyn Bridge [PDF]....
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Jun 30
Adriano Espaillat Reaffirms Love of Traffic, Distaste for Tolls : We wondered a few months back why Upper Manhattan Assembly Member Adriano Espaillat, a supporter of congestion pricing, would side with the usual suspects in opposing Ravitch-backed East and Har...
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Jun 30
We Are the World : Fallout continues in the wake of last Friday's narrow passage of the Waxman-Markey climate bill, otherwise known as the American Clean Energy and Security Act, in the House of Representatives....
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Jun 30
Today’s Headlines : Why Is There a Gender Gap in City Cycling?...
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Jun 29
Report: States Used $6.6B in Stimulus Cash on New Roads, Not Repair : Today is the deadline for state DOTs to allocate at least half of the transportation money they received under the economic stimulus law, and Smart Growth America marked the occasion with a study of w...
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Jun 29
Take Action: Tell John Liu to Support the Bicycle Access Bill : Last September, John Liu stood on the steps of City Hall to support bicycle access to buildings. This email alert from Transportation Alternatives just hit our inbox....
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Jun 29
Fare Hike Coverage: We Know the Effect, But What About the Cause? : Ben Kabak at Second Avenue Sagas is on a roll critiquing media coverage of the MTA fare hike, which went into effect yesterday....
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Jun 29
Ask the RIOC: May I Park My Bike Tonight? : Mission accomplished? Plenty of room at the RI subway station rack....
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Jun 29
Fifth Avenue, 1909: So Long Promenade, Hello Motorway : Image: New York Times. This image of Fifth Avenue unearthed by the Times' Jennifer 8. Lee (nice headline!) is a fascinating relic from the dawn of the motoring age....
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Jun 29
Do Shiny New Roads “Only Make Idiots More Dangerous”? : We hear the arguments again and again from DOTs: they need to widen highways and expand interchanges to improve safety on the nation's roads....
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Jun 29
This Week in Livable Streets Events : It looks like we have a pretty quiet week coming up....
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Jun 29
Today’s Headlines : The Subway Fare Just Went Up (Post, NY1, News) New Yorkers Have No Idea Why This Fare Hike Is Happening (News, News) Report: States Spending One-Third of Their Transpo Stim Cash on...
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Jun 26
The Opposite of Ad Nauseam: Farrah on a Bike : It's been a tumultuous week in more ways than one....
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Jun 26
NYPD Taps James Tuller to Succeed Scagnelli as Transpo Chief : The New York Times reports that NYPD Commissioner Ray Kelly has chosen a successor to Chief of Transportation Michael Scagnelli: The highest rank to be filled on Friday will be chief of tra...
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Jun 26
New Yorkers Taxed (Again) for Not Owning Cars : MetroCard machines aren't the only place where the price of transit is going up....
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Jun 26
The Wall Street Tax Shelter That Crashed Your Local Transit Agency : The scene of Monday's Metro crash in D.C., where the local transit agency still has 15 outstanding "SILO" tax deals. (Photo: AP) The D.C....
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Jun 26
Help Oakland Name Its Own “Summer Streets” : A night scene from Oakland's Uptown Unveiled....
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Jun 26
The Weekly Carnage : The Weekly Carnage is a Friday round-up of motor vehicle mayhem across the metro region....
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Jun 26
The House is Debating its Climate Legislation Right Now : Kate Sheppard from Grist is Tweeting the heck out of the climate bill debate on the floor of the House of Representatives today (218 votes and counting)....
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Jun 26
If New Yorkers Don’t Value Transit, Who Will? : It's the largest transit system in the United States, moving millions of people daily throughout New York City and beyond and serving as the lifeblood of one of the largest economies in the world....
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Jun 26
Today’s Headlines : DeFazio: Make Wall Street A$$holes Pay for Infrastructure (Infrastructurist) The MTA Says It Needs $600M to Keep Going......
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Jun 25
Boxer and Inhofe Agree: Transportation Policy Reform Can Wait : Green transportation advocates are pressing Congress to refuse any new spending that's not tied to reform of the existing system -- a call that influential senators in both parties ruled out today....
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Jun 25
Assembly Passes One-House Safe Driving Bill : While the New York State Senate scrambles to salvage some dignity from the current legislative session, the Assembly has busied itself with a flurry of one-house lawmaking....
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Jun 25
Streetfilms: Hey Port Authority, How About More Room for Buses? : Over 315,000 bus riders cross the Hudson River each weekday....
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Jun 25
Meet the (Alleged) Road Rage Thug of Ninth Avenue: Gus Gonzalez : Inset: No day at the beach. Photo: Belly of the beast? So, based on the accumulated evidence, we can safely say that the man who allegedly blocked the Ninth Avenue bike lane with his 7,000 lb....
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Jun 25
Live Webcast: Environment & Public Works Committee Hearing : Watching Ray LaHood's testimony to the Senate EPW committee, Elana Schor tweets that the fat lady is singing for the House of Representatives' effort to get the transportation reauthorization done q...
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Jun 25
Everywhere a Sign : Today on the Streetsblog Network, we ever-so-gingerly broach the issue of etiquette when pedestrians and cyclists share the same space....
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Jun 25
Nothing Says Tranquility Like the Hum of a Huge Diesel Engine : The Mark Sanford scandal is a bit off topic for Streetsblog but Sean Roche at the Newton Streets & Sidewalks blog points us to this incredible passage from one of the e-mails between the South Car...
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Jun 25
Today’s Headlines : DC Metro Crash Highlights Decrepit State of Big American Transit Systems (NYT) So Much For Getting Anything Done in Albany This Session (NYT) MTA Board OKs Sweeter Atlantic Yards De...
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Jun 24
Tune in Now: Ninth Avenue Road Rage Incident on CBS2 News : Ray Bengen, the cyclist who was assaulted by the driver of a Ford Excursion blocking the Ninth Avenue bike lane, will appear tonight on the 6:00 p.m. edition of the CBS 2 local news....
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Jun 24
House Transpo Leaders and Obama DOT Run Off in Opposite Directions : The conflicted state of federal transportation policy-making was on vivid display today, as House lawmakers pressed ahead on a $500 billion bill that still lacks a funding source while the Obama...
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Jun 24
State Senate Bill Would Wipe Bad Driving Records Clean : A bill introduced in the Senate this month could make New York roads and streets more dangerous while dealing a severe setback to the state's traffic justice movement.  Schneider...
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