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Help Uncover the Truth About Traffic Violence

By Lily Bernheimer | Nov 13, 2009 | 4 Comments

Want to channel your anger over pedestrian and cyclist crashes into productive action? Livable Streets member BicyclesOnly has a plan for you. The police report revealed that the driver who killed cyclist Rasha Shamoon in 2008 had six prior convictions, and that NYPD interviewed only him and his passengers. BicyclesOnly has launched a working group […]

NYC’s Next Four Years: From Good Enough to Great

By Paul Steely White | Nov 11, 2009 | 11 Comments

Mayor Bloomberg has already shown how much his administration can accomplish in just a few years. Since Janette Sadik-Khan’s appointment to head the DOT in 2007, the city has striped hundreds of miles of bike lanes, reclaimed acres of street space for pedestrians and improved bus travel for tens of thousands of New Yorkers. “More […]

Pennies for Pedestrians: NY State Spends Small on Street Safety

By Brad Aaron | Nov 9, 2009 | 6 Comments

New York State devotes just 1 percent of its federal transportation funds to pedestrian infrastructure. Photo: Wikipedia It’s not news that a half-century of transportation spending to accommodate the automobile has made the typical American city hazardous and hostile to people on foot. But it’s shocking how we still devote so few resources to correcting […]

How About a Climate Plan That Reduces Car Dependence?

By Lily Bernheimer | Nov 6, 2009 | 6 Comments

Last week PA Walks and Bikes alerted Pennsylvania residents to an opportunity to give input on the state’s new Climate Change Action Plan. The state has produced a report identifying specific actions that would reduce emissions by a target date of 2020. Recent and projected GHG emissions from the Land Use and Transportation sector, as […]

The Race Is on to Map Out 300 Bike Racks for North Brooklyn

By Lily Bernheimer | Oct 30, 2009 | 1 Comment

In September, dozens of people turned out for the Livable Streets Initiative’s first bike rack hunt in North Brooklyn, where we identified about 70 spots that are begging for some nice bike parking. The locations will be submitted to DOT as a bulk order for bike racks. But first, we’re raising the stakes. With your […]

Broken Streets Theory: How to Alter the Psychology of Reckless Driving

By Ben Fried | Oct 29, 2009 | 11 Comments

Jessie Singer has a great feature in the latest issue of TA’s Reclaim magazine (now available online), examining the NYPD’s failure to curb dangerous driving. After pushing down violent crime rates so effectively based on data-driven analysis, she asks, why don’t police use the same techniques to tame the life-threatening hazards of New York City […]

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