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This Week: Better Buses for 125th Street, Volunteer for Transit
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This week starts off with presentations about bike-share locations on the East Side of Manhattan and Select Bus Service on 125th Street, and it wraps up with two Riders Alliance volunteer events. Here are the details: Monday: On the agenda for the transportation committee of Manhattan Community Board 6: an update on bike-share locations, and more. 7:00 p.m. […]
This Week: Vignelli, NYMTC, and Transit Trends
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It’s a light week on the Streetsblog calendar: Highlights include a talk about the Vignelli subway map, the New York Metropolitan Transportation Council’s annual meeting, and a lecture on transit trends. Here are the details: Tuesday: Peter Lloyd, co-author of the new book “Vignelli: Transit Maps,” joins Yoshi Waterhouse and Beatriz Cifuentes of Vignelli Associates […]
Thursday Job Market
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Looking to hire a smart, qualified person for a position in transportation planning, engineering, IT, or advocacy? Post a listing on the Streetsblog Jobs Board and reach our national audience of dedicated readers. Looking for a job? Here are this week’s listings: Web Developer, NextBus, Emeryville, CA NextBus is looking for a web developer to do HTML/CSS/JavaScript […]
This Week: Mayoral Transit Forum, Brooklyn Greenway
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This week, community boards in Manhattan, Brooklyn, and Staten Island hear proposals from DOT on key bike connections, a new Slow Zone, and parking meter reforms. To cap off the week, mayoral candidates are invited to talk transit on Friday. Here are the details: Tuesday: The MTA will present to Brooklyn Community Board 2’s transportation committee […]
Youth Bike Summit, Safer Fourth Avenue, Queens Bike Parking
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This week features opportunities to speak up for on-street bike parking and safer streets in Queens and Brooklyn, plus the nation’s premiere conference about biking and young people, right here in New York. Here are the details: Monday: The 82nd Street Partnership BID has requested that DOT install a bike corral on 82nd Street between Roosevelt and […]
Thursday Job Market
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Looking to hire a smart, qualified person for a position in transportation planning, engineering, IT, or advocacy? Post a listing on the Streetsblog Jobs Board and reach our national audience of dedicated readers. Looking for a job? Here are this week’s listings: Project Manager, Reconnecting America, Washington, DC The Project Manager will work closely with a range […]
This Week: Big Vote on Columbus Avenue Bike Lane
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There aren’t many items coming up on the Streetsblog calendar, but this is an important week for livable streets. Here are the details: Tuesday: It’s been a long fight for neighborhood residents to expand the safety benefits of the Columbus Avenue protected bike lane to more of the Upper West Side. Now a proposal to extend […]
This Week: How to Get a Play Street, Celebrate Grand Central
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It’s a light week on the calendar — a good time to learn about car-free Play Streets, celebrate the grandeur of Grand Central Terminal, and find out what DOT has planned for Park Avenue outside GCT. Here are the highlights: Today: The transportation committee of Manhattan Community Board 5 will get updates from DOT regarding […]
Streetsblog and Streetfilms Seek Freelance WordPress Developer
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Streetsblog and Streetfilms are searching for an experienced WordPress developer to maintain, troubleshoot, and build new features for our national network of high-traffic news sites. The developer will work on a freelance basis in New York City. This position will be responsible for supporting a team of 10 journalists; proposing new technologies to keep the […]
Speak Up for Safer Streets in Brooklyn and the Bronx
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This week, there are important DOT workshops concerning major streets in Brooklyn — Fourth Avenue in Bay Ridge and Broadway from Myrtle Avenue to the Williamsburg Bridge. There’s also a community board meeting to reconsider a bike corral the board had already approved. Also this week: In the Bronx, the MTA will hold a hearing […]
Friday Job Market
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Looking to hire a smart, qualified person for a position in transportation planning, engineering, IT, or advocacy? Post a listing on the Streetsblog Jobs Board and reach our national audience of dedicated readers. Looking for a job? Here are this week’s listings: Program Officer – Country Support and Climate, Institute for Sustainable Communities, Montpelier, VT The Program […]
This Week: Bronx Ped Safety, Brooklyn Gateway, Transit Trivia
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Last week, we covered the efforts of advocates to get the city and state to complete the missing link in the Bronx River Greenway by building phase two of Starlight Park. That isn’t the only action happening along the greenway: There are two community board meetings this week to improve safety at pedestrian crossings leading […]