Sarah Goodyear
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Transportation for America Launches Legislative Campaign
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Today marks the start of Transportation for America‘s "Build for America" campaign, which will work to influence the transportation funding legislation that goes before the next Congress in 2009. (You’ll be hearing a lot more about it here in the coming months; we have received a grant from the T4America campaign to kick-start the development […]
Study Provides a New Vision for Allen and Pike Street Malls
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Local residents turned out to give their opinions on the renovation of the malls early last summer. Residents of the Lower East Side and Chinatown have been fighting for improvements to the Allen and Pike Street pedestrian malls for more than a decade. Now, with the city’s Parks Department set to begin a $5.4 million […]
At Grand Central, Sen. Clinton Calls for Funding Mass Transit
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Clinton was joined by (l-r) Larry Hanley, of the Amalgamated Transit Union, NYC DOT Commissioner Janette Sadik-Khan, Congresswoman Carolyn Maloney and MTA chief Elliot Sander Surrounded by a throng of curious commuters under the clock at Grand Central Terminal last Friday, Sen. Hillary Clinton held a press conference calling for increased federal funding for mass […]
Bike Commuters Clean Up and Lock Up in Brisbane, Australia
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From the Australian Bicycling Council comes word of a new amenity for bicycling commuters In Brisbane, Australia. Called cycle2city, it provides secure weekday parking and showers for up to 420 members, who will pay between $5 and $7 a day for the privilege of using the facility (that and other figures quoted here are Australian […]
¡Arriba Sevilla!
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I was in Seville last week for the first time since February 2007, and in the intervening year there’s been something of a transportation revolution in the city. It’s most visibly evident in the Sevici bike-share bikes (bicis in Spanish) that are everywhere. The system launched in April 2007, and ultimately there will be 250 […]
Nano Technology
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The much-hyped and much-criticized Tata Nano, a car that will hit the Indian market retailing for a mere 100,000 rupees — the equivalent of $2,500 — got a perplexing nod of approval from the Economist newsmagazine last week: Commuting in India’s cities can be both cosy and deadly. Children squeeze snugly between father at the […]
Green Subways: An Answer Blowing in the Wind?
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As part of its "Steal This Idea" series, Good magazine has a suggestion for a way to move toward a more sustainable New York: offering subway riders the chance to pay a little extra for a wind-powered ride. Each year, the New York subway system uses 1.8 billion kilowatt-hours of electricity, making it the city’s […]
Riding While Black or Just Riding?
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From Robert Jones’s blog This Is the Diaspora comes a disturbing tale (well worth reading in full) of how a beautiful bike ride on a sparkling fall day turned into a humiliating encounter with the police — all because Jones detoured onto the sidewalk of Malcolm X Boulevard in Brooklyn for a few seconds to […]
Weiner’s Congestion Testimony: Anything But Pricing
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If nothing else, gridlocked traffic is a good marketing opportunity for Oscar Mayer’s Wienermobile. US Rep. Anthony Weiner was one of the first voices to speak up against Mayor Bloomberg’s proposal for a three-year congestion pricing pilot project and he remains one of the loudest. In his testimony Oct. 25 before the NYC Traffic Mitigation […]
Queens Civic Congress Has Its Own Plan
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No one who comes before the NYC Traffic Congestion Mitigation Commission is going to admit to liking congestion. If they’re against the mayor’s congestion-pricing plan, they are usually going to come up with some kind of alternative. Take the Queens Civic Congress, which advanced its position at an Oct. 30 hearing. Jim Trent, the chair […]
Bike Snob NYC Shows You How It’s Done
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One of the keenest and most unforgiving observers of bike culture in this town, in all its glory and absurdity, is the blogger Bike Snob NYC. A couple of weeks back, he posted a chronicle of his bike commute from Brooklyn to Manhattan that had me shaking my head in recognition at every turn. […]
Robin Chase: “The Web 2.0 of Transportation Technologies”
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Robin Chase is the co-founder and former CEO of Zipcar and the founder and CEO of GoLoco, a ride-sharing service that uses social networks like Facebook to connect people who want to carpool. A Harvard University Loeb Fellow, Chase is an authority on the use of wireless and mesh network technology as it applies to […]