Lily Bernheimer
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“Collingswood Streets” Connects Academics to Advocacy
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The corner of Collings and Haddon Avenues, two streets that will be the focus of the Collingswood bike lane study. Photo: Ryan Collerd/New York Times. Stella Bonaparte is a bicycle and pedestrian advocate majoring in urban studies at Rutgers’ Camden campus. Earlier this month, she started a new Livable Streets group for the neighboring town […]
Profile Photo Contest Winners
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Congratulations to Livable Streets Community member silverlynx for his stunning submission to our Profile Photo Contest! Silverlynx is the captain of a tugboat on the San Francisco Bay and rides a DaHon bicycle to commute between jobs. The first prize of a bike gift basket donated by B’s Bikes in Williamsburg, Brooklyn goes to him. […]
Big Start for Bike Month
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News of another success for the Dangerous Intersections group comes to us this week by way of Peter Frishauf. Frishauf shared a message he received from DOT Manhattan Borough Commissioner Margaret Forgione about the intersection of 103rd St. and Riverside Drive in Manhattan, where a "no standing anytime" zone will be implemented south of the […]
Profile Photo Contest!
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Join the Livable Streets Community by May 13 for a chance to win this awesome bike gift basket! That’s right — it’s a bike basket doubling as a gift basket, packed with goodies including a mini bike pump, fold-up hex wrench set, an "I Love my Bike" bell, and more. All you have to do […]
Livable Streets Community News: What’s New on Your Account Page
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We’ve got a treat this week for Livable Streets members. Account pages have been upgraded to give you an activity feed — similar to what you see on the homepage of a Facebook account — of everything new in your groups. Whether you belong to one group or many, this page is really useful for […]
Livable Streets Community News: CT Wants Enforcement Cams Too
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Pennsylvanians debate whether bike boulevards like this should be a priority. Image courtesy of Paul Bender. Red light cameras are a hot topic in Connecticut this week as well as New York. Members of the CT Livable Streets Campaign are working to gain ACLU support for a bill that will bring badly needed red light […]
Livable Streets Community News: UWS Synagogue Joins Up
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Congregation B’nai Jeshurun. Photo via Wikipedia. Some good news comes to us this week of an Upper West Side synagogue’s support for Livable Streets. From Gil Kulich on the Upper West Side Streets Renaissance group blog: "I’m involved in an effort at Congregation B’nai Jeshurun, one of the largest and most influential synagogues on the […]
Livable Streets Community News: Mapping Hotspots, Getting Results
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A workshop participant diagrammed these traffic-calming proposals for Bartel Pritchard Square. If you want to use the Livable Streets Community site to organize in your neighborhood, this week we’ve got a great example of what you can do with your group. On February 7, Brooklyn’s Park Slope Civic Council put on a workshop to introduce […]
Livable Streets Community News: Accessible Grocery Stores & More
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How can ped access to grocery stores like Kroger be improved? Image via Wikipedia. Our New York readers who’ve been keeping close tabs on the stalled MTA rescue will want to check out the South Bronx Livable Streets group this week, where Susan Donovan has been blogging about the saga, including yesterday’s protest at Senator […]
Livable Streets Member of the Month: Dan Latorre
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Livable Streets Community member Dan Latorre has gone above and beyond the call of duty in his activism this month. After prodding Transportation Alternatives’ Brooklyn committee to organize their work through a Livable Streets Group, he set up two online conference sessions to teach other members about the array of tools offered and what they’re […]
LSN Community News: Transit Technology Buzz
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Google’s new Latitude tool: useful for ParaTransit? Here’s an interesting dose of outside-the-box transportation thinking that recently bubbled up from the Livable Streets community. Smart ParaTransit — a group that "targets new ways of getting people in and around cities in road vehicles, smaller than full sized buses, driven by real human beings, dynamically shared […]
LSN Community News: Pooling Our Knowledge
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Riverside Dr. post-daylighting. Photo by Peter Frishauf. As impassioned LSN members continue to hash out the pros and cons of the "pedestrian peek-a-boo" featured in Robin Urban Smith’s daylighting Streetfilm, an uplifting success story has come to light. Back in August, Peter Frishauf used the NYC Dangerous Intersections group to catalog a spot severely in […]