Lots of cycling-related events this week, beginning with tonight’s Central Park Precinct meeting and wrapping up with the TA Bike Shop Blitz. It’s not on the calendar, but also today the city is expected to unveil its plans to improve bus service and pedestrian safety on 34th Street. Tonight: The NYPD bike crackdown (known officially […]

The Community Board 6 showdown over the Prospect Park West bike lane is almost certainly the biggest event of the week, as the incredible attention the safety-enhancing street redesign has received has made it a proxy battle for bike and pedestrian improvements citywide. But there’s plenty more on tap. Tonight: DOT presents its plan to […]

The weekly Streetsblog calendar starts off with an opportunity to tell the NYPD to put its traffic enforcement muscle where it’s really needed on the Upper West Side, and concludes with a weekend conference on transportation and technology. Tonight: The Upper West Side Streets Renaissance will talk to the 20th precinct about focusing traffic enforcement […]

Hope everyone enjoyed the Presidents Day weekend. On the calendar this week: After a debate on the future of infrastructure megaprojects tonight, the action heads to Queens and Brooklyn. Tonight: Top transportation builders and advocates discuss the future of large scale public works in a panel discussion at the Museum of the City of New […]

Start your week off by sending a valentine to New York’s transit system, and then enjoy some intellectual conversation about the future of the taxi and the promise of transit-oriented development. Today: Happy Valentine’s Day. Join Transportation Alternatives, the Transit Workers Union, WE ACT for Environmental Justice and the Straphanger’s Campaign at three different subway […]

Precinct community councils are monthly forums for New Yorkers to meet face-to-face with officers at their local police precinct and discuss their concerns. With police going on a seemingly arbitrary cyclist ticket binge while motorists face scant consequences for killing pedestrians, tonight’s forum at the 19th precinct on the Upper East Side should be an […]

The action this week is tonight and Thursday, with opportunities to get involved in public space planning, dig into what “livability” means, and talk about specific traffic justice cases with Manhattan D.A. Cy Vance. Tonight: DOT sits down for a charette with the Washington Heights community to create a plan for the new 10,000 square […]

If you want to relive the excitement of last October’s rally for the redesigned Prospect Park West, when supporters swamped the opposition, or if you couldn’t make the rally and wish you had the chance to stand with other Brooklynites who support safer streets, we have good news. There is one more public forum to […]

Activists looking to get more involved in the fight for livable streets can start off their week tonight with Transportation Alternatives’ Community Board Jammy Jam. Learn how to become a member of your local community board, where pro-transit, bike and pedestrian perspectives can make all the difference for forward-thinking transportation initiatives. Then head over to […]

With New York still warming up to the new year, it’s a quiet week for livable streets. The only event on the calendar is tonight, when Manhattan Community Board 6’s transportation committee meets to discuss the 34th Street Transitway. CB 6, which represents the East Side, is home to the strongest opposition to the separated […]

Manhattan community boards are doing some listening this week. Downtown community boards will see the Chinatown Working Group’s transportation action plan, which will attempt to lay out a comprehensive strategy for the area, as well the latest work on a separate traffic plan for the ever-clogged Canal Street. DOT will also unveil the results for […]