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Upper Manhattan Council Candidates Take a Pass on Livable Streets Survey

By Brad Aaron | Aug 27, 2009 | 14 Comments

Decrepit subway stations, like the shuttered 1 train stop at 181st St., is just one of the issues Upper Manhattan City Council candidates don’t care to talk about. Photo: Daily News When I set out to summarize responses to the Transportation Alternatives Candidate Survey from City Council contenders in Washington Heights and Inwood, I expected […]

Highlights From TA’s District 25 Candidate Debate

By Ben Fried | Aug 26, 2009 | 6 Comments

Helen Sears, Stanley Kalathara, and Daniel Dromm. At the Transportation Alternatives City Council candidate debate last night, the three Democrats competing in District 25 sat down to tackle concerns about traffic, public space, and street safety. An overflow crowd of about 50 people packed the second floor office of the Queens Diversity Center to see […]

Report: Cops Can Measure Traffic Violations, If They Try

By Ben Fried | Aug 25, 2009 | 11 Comments

Transportation Alternatives documented failure-to-yield violations at the rate of 24 per hour, per intersection. Photo: TA Lawless driving in New York City is about as ubiquitous as scaffolding, pigeons, and Duane Reade put together. You just can’t escape the constant background presence of motorist misbehavior: Ask New Yorkers what concerns them the most, and traffic […]

Block Parties Bring Long-Term Neighborhood Benefits

By Lily Bernheimer | Aug 21, 2009 | 5 Comments

Hang Chau is a future medical student who researched block parties and public health as an undergrad in Philadelphia, and is now organizing more in San Diego. In a new StreetsWiki entry on block parties, she examines the way these public community events encourage people to invest in their neighborhoods by highlighting the positive (outdoor […]

District 39 Candidates: Where Do They Stand on Livable Streets?

By Ben Fried | Aug 19, 2009 | 24 Comments

L-r: Brad Lander, Dave Pechefsky, Gary Reilly, Josh Skaller, and Bob Zuckerman. A crowd of about 75 Brooklynites turned out for the Transportation Alternatives City Council candidate debate last night, despite the muggy mid-August heat and un-air-conditioned PS 321 auditorium. They were treated to a substantive discussion of transportation policy that went deeper than "bike […]

Web Apps for Transpo Planning: Share Your Insights

By Lily Bernheimer | Aug 14, 2009 | 2 Comments

Andrew Nash Andrew Nash, former Executive Director of the San Francisco County Transportation Authority, has just posted a paper about Web 2.0 for Transport Planning on StreetsWiki. He’s asking the Livable Streets Community, as experts on the ground, to contribute to it before he presents the final draft at the Transportation Research Board’s 2010 annual […]

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