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Eyes on the Street: New Places to Sit on Myrtle Avenue

By Stephen Miller | Dec 7, 2012 | 4 Comments

Combining public seating and tree protection, the Myrtle Avenue Brooklyn Partnership has begun a second round of street furniture installations. The project is bringing 28 tree guards and 22 benches to Myrtle Avenue between Flatbush and Classon Avenues by the end of the year, joining 40 tree guards and benches that were installed in 2011. At one […]

Queens Rep Barbara Clark Searches for Solutions to Deadly Speeding Epidemic

By Brad Aaron | Dec 5, 2012 | 12 Comments

After a fatal crash in her district, a state representative from Queens is again calling on Albany to double fines for speeding, but with NYPD issuing few tickets, lax traffic enforcement continues to be the biggest obstacle to safer streets. Barbara Clark, State Assembly Member from Queens Village, introduced a bill in May that would […]

Instead of More Fare Hikes, How About Bridge Tolls That Make Sense?

By Ben Fried | Oct 15, 2012 | 16 Comments

Since the beginning of 2008 — right around the time that Albany legislators failed to enact congestion pricing — NYC subway and bus fares have been hiked three times. Now the fourth fare hike in five years is on the horizon, and with Albany lawmakers sitting on their hands as MTA revenues fail to keep […]

Bike Lanes Mean Business

By Jono Ryan | Oct 12, 2012 | 4 Comments

The East Village and Lower East Side have seen new bike infrastructure flourish in the past few years, and now have some of the best city bicycling infrastructure in the country, including what will soon be the nation’s longest protected bike lanes on First and Second Avenues, several on-street bike corrals, and, coming next spring, […]

The Long-Missing Link: New Push for Verrazano Bridge Bike-Ped Path

By Stephen Miller | Oct 4, 2012 | 15 Comments

Before the Verrazano-Narrows Bridge opened in 1964, New Yorkers on foot or bike could travel between Staten Island and Brooklyn by taking a ferry from 69th Street in Bay Ridge to St. George. Since the bridge opened, there are only two times each year when people are allowed to cross it under their own power: […]

TA Survey: Customers on Foot Bring Big Business to East Village Retailers

By Stephen Miller | Oct 2, 2012 | 9 Comments

On the heels of launching New York’s first “Bike Friendly Business District” in the East Village and Lower East Side, Transportation Alternatives has released a new study [PDF] showing that people who walk, bike and take transit to the East Village are local retailers’ best customers. In a random survey of 420 East Village pedestrians, 95 […]

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