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This Week: Help Improve Driver Education on Cycling
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In response to the death of cyclist Jasmine Herron, who died after getting doored by a motorist on Atlantic Avenue last month, Brooklyn State Senator Eric Adams plans to release a bill to add bike safety components to the state’s required drivers ed courses. To build momentum, he wants to organize a group ride and […]
This Week: Preview East Side SBS, Pick a Greenway Route
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We’ve got a full slate on the calendar this week as we approach the October 10 launch of Select Bus Service on First and Second Avenues. Monday: If you’ve been out on First or Second Avenue lately, you may have noticed the new terra cotta bus lanes and the even more unusual sight of MetroCard […]
This Week: Bikes in Parks, Contractor Conference
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The community board action this week is all on Manhattan’s Upper West Side, where CB 7 will first discuss bikes in parks — including possible bike lanes across Central Park — and then safety improvements at 71st Street. There’s also a full plate of panels and conferences, including an Albany meeting of the New York […]
This Week: Vote!
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If you want to make an impact on transportation policy in New York (and you’re a registered Democrat), tomorrow is your big day. All-important seats in the State Senate and Assembly will, for all intents and purposes, be decided in the primary. And if experience is any guide, the margin of victory will come down […]
First/Second Ave SBS Open House
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M15 Select Bus Service (SBS) is coming to First and Second Avenues starting October 10, 2010. M15 SBS replaces the M15 limited bus and will provide faster and more reliable service through the use of off-board fare payment, bus-only lanes, and low-floor, three door buses. The M15 local service will remain in effect but […]
First/Second Ave SBS Open House
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M15 Select Bus Service (SBS) is coming to First and Second Avenues starting October 10, 2010. M15 SBS replaces the M15 limited bus and will provide faster and more reliable service through the use of off-board fare payment, bus-only lanes, and low-floor, three door buses. The M15 local service will remain in effect but […]
Shoup: Cato HQ the Perfect Lab for Reforming Commuter Parking Subsidies
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Last week we published a reply from UCLA planning professor Donald Shoup to Cato Institute senior fellow Randal O’Toole, in which Shoup clarified his positions on parking policy and explained several ways in which government regulations favor the provision of free parking. In response, O’Toole ran this post on the Cato@Liberty blog. Streetsblog is pleased […]
Shoup to O’Toole: The Market for Parking Is Anything But Free
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We’re reprinting this reply [PDF] from UCLA professor Donald Shoup, author of the High Cost of Free Parking, to Randal O’Toole, the libertarian Cato Institute senior fellow who refuses to acknowledge the role of massive government intervention in the market for parking, and the effect this has had on America’s car dependence. It’s an excellent […]
This Week: Biking Goes Mainstream; Summer Streets III, Part 2
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It’s the dog days and community boards are still on vacation. Luckily, the calendar features two more weeks of this to look forward to: The view down Park Avenue last Saturday. Photo: Jeff Prant Thursday: How can NYC make cycling mainstream and integrate it with the city’s transportation system? NYCOT’s Jon Orcutt, Transportation Alternatives’ Caroline […]
This Week: Cars in the City, Cars Off Park Avenue
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Another week bereft of community board intrigue, but there are more enjoyable ways to spend your time. For instance… Tuesday: Want to see a complete greenway along the East Side of Manhattan? Come to Transportation Alternatives’s East Side Committee meeting to make it happen. 6:30 p.m. Thursday: The Museum of the City of New York […]
This Week: Queens Parking Tour, Dueling Street Reclamations
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What the calendar may lack in quantity this week, it more than makes up for with some high quality events. Tuesday: Auto-Free New York offers a tour of Long Island City, Queens, focusing on how the explosion of new parking spaces is undermining this transit-rich neighborhood. 6 p.m. Wednesday: Two great livable streets events go […]
This Week: Defending Riverside Park, Extending Eighth Avenue
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Two community boards turn their attention this week to important pieces of Manhattan bike infrastructure: the Riverside Park connection to the Hudson River Greenway and the Eighth Avenue protected bike path. By reiterating the right of cyclists to ride through Riverside Park and showing support for the Eighth Avenue path and its proposed extension, CB […]