Recent Streetsblog NYC posts about Drum Major Institute

Advocates: Ethical Standards Demand Zero Tolerance for Traffic Deaths

By Noah Kazis | Jun 8, 2011 | 19 Comments

Traffic deaths need to be treated as an ethical imperative to save lives, said representatives from Transportation Alternatives, the Drum Major Institute, and the medical community today at the public release of the new report, “Vision Zero” [PDF]. “It is simply unacceptable for people to die in traffic,” said T.A. Executive Director Paul Steely White, […]

City Transpo, Health Advocates: One Traffic Death Is One Too Many

By Brad Aaron | Jun 8, 2011 | 1 Comment

The Drum Major Institute and Transportation Alternatives today called on the city to step up efforts to reduce vehicular deaths, and implored the Bloomberg administration and the New York City Council to change the widespread “culture of acceptance” that leads many New Yorkers to view thousands of preventable, life-altering injuries as an inevitable byproduct of […]

Tell Electeds and the Media: I’m a New Yorker, and I Want Safer Streets

By Brad Aaron | Mar 7, 2011 | 10 Comments

Does Anthony Weiner really intend to someday rip out all the bike lanes in New York City? Or was his remark to Mayor Bloomberg “on a balmy night last June” merely a topical quip blown out of proportion in last week’s Times profile of Janette Sadik-Khan? We’ve queried Weiner’s office to find out, but the […]

NYC Car Commuters Are Wealthier and Cops All Drive to Work

By Aaron Naparstek | Dec 11, 2007 | 56 Comments

I’m not sure that this particular set of facts matters one bit to Traffic Mitigation Commission member Richard Brodsky, who claims to represent the little guy in the congestion pricing debate, but New York City’s Independent Budget Office released a report today demolishing the argument that pricing is unfair to the poor and working class […]

Who is Richard Brodsky?

By Aaron Naparstek | Oct 18, 2007 | 14 Comments

Matthew Schuerman offers up a brief but insightful profile of Westchester Assembly member Richard Brodsky in this week’s Observer. Who is the man who holds the keys to the future of New York City transportation policy? First of all, like many on the government payroll, he’s got his own ideas about parking policy: Already late […]

T.A. Responds to ‘Keep NYC Congestion’ Plan

By Brad Aaron | Oct 12, 2007 | 40 Comments

Media release from Transportation Alternatives: Transportation Alternatives ("T.A."), New York City’s advocate for cycling, walking and environmentally sensible transportation, has raised serious questions about the motives and efficacy of a proposed alternative to congestion pricing that has been presented to the New York City Traffic Mitigation Commission. "It’s ironic that Transportation Alternatives should have to […]

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