It’s a very busy week on the Streetsblog calendar, with the presentation of safety improvements for 181st Street, votes on bike lanes for First and Second Avenues, and panels on smart growth and the city’s zoning code. Tonight: DOT presents its plan for 181st Street to Manhattan CB 12. In October, DOT presented three options […]

We just have a couple of events on the calendar for this holiday-shortened week, but they’re important ones. The City Council’s ongoing budget hearings turn to transportation, including financing for the DOT, MTA and TLC. Budgets are about priorities, and the hearing should reveal just what the transportation priorities of the City Council are. Wednesday: […]

Heading into the Memorial Day weekend, the Streetsblog calendar starts off with discussions of the recent PlaNYC update and the state of infrastructure financing, and ends with a festival of Streetfilms at the Brooklyn Museum. Eat your heart out, Cannes. Tuesday: David Bragdon, head of the Mayor’s Office of Long-Term Planning and Sustainability, sits down […]

Lots of community board action this week. DOT will be unveiling transit improvements for Port Richmond in Staten Island and safety fixes in Greenpoint, while one community board will get a chance to hear from the NYPD about traffic enforcement and another will take a final vote over the proposed Bay Ridge Parkway bike markings. […]

It’s a busy week, with DOT making the rounds to update the Park Smart program in Greenwich Village, present a traffic calming project on the Upper West Side, and lead a public workshop for a new plaza in Clinton Hill. Tonight: DOT presents its preliminary study on a Red Hook streetcar, which recommended not building […]

It’s an active week on the East Side of Manhattan, where three community boards will consider measures to improve street safety and speed up buses. Monday: At a Community Board 6 transportation committee meeting, DOT will present plans to extend the First and Second Avenue bike routes from 34th Street up to 57th Street. The […]

Get educated this week, with three impressive-looking panels and workshops on the future of fare payment, residential parking requirements, and why we drive. Tuesday: Hosted by the New York Academy of Sciences, experts from the MTA, the Port Authority, and NYC DOT will discuss the future of toll and fare payment systems, looking ahead to […]

Two great events are squeezed in between this week’s many holidays. On Wednesday, Manhattan Community Board 4’s transportation committee has three hot issues on its agenda. Then on Saturday, the Municipal Art Society is offering a walking tour through the neighborhoods bordering the Sheridan Expressway. Wednesday: Manhattan Community Board 4’s transportation committee will tackle some […]

Tuesday night is going to be busy, with three great events scheduled for the same evening. Then, the leading lights of the transportation world will gather at the Regional Plan Association’s annual assembly on Friday. The theme this year is “Innovation and the Global City” and speakers include Connecticut Governor Dan Malloy and former New York […]

There’s something for everyone this week, from a sure-to-be interesting discussion of how to distribute street space to a City Council hearing on parking tickets and an update on plans for a Select Bus Service route from Staten Island to Bay Ridge. Tonight: As part of its Streets Month, the Municipal Art Society is holding […]

Two Manhattan community boards have important meetings tonight, with CB 5 discussing a BID-supported redesign of some Midtown pedestrian plazas and CB 7 making a connection between NYPD’s Central Park bike crackdown and plans to allow bikes to cross the park east-west. Later in the week, DOT will hold two public meetings on the 34th Street […]

It’s the first week of spring and it seems that in honor of the change of seasons, the transportation world has decided to take it slow this week. Here are your selections from the Streetsblog calendar: Tuesday: Auto-Free New York meets with a former Port Authority transportation planner to discuss the past and future of […]