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Two-Way Protected Bike Path Sails Through CB6 Committee

By Streetsblog | Apr 17, 2009 | 18 Comments

Image: NYCDOT Eric McClure of Park Slope Neighbors files this report. Last night, the transportation committee of Brooklyn Community Board 6 unanimously endorsed a plan by the Department of Transportation to calm traffic on Prospect Park West through a major street redesign. The plan features the implementation of New York City’s first on-street, two-way, physically […]

Report: New Yorkers Like Ped Streets More Than They Expected

By Ben Fried | Apr 9, 2009 | 5 Comments

Enjoying a game of four-square out on the street in Jackson Heights. Photo: Transportation Alternatives. In addition to last summer’s blockbuster car-free event, Summer Streets, three New York neighborhoods tried out pedestrian streets on a more intimate scale. Williamsburg Walks, Summer Space in Brooklyn Heights, and the 78th Street Play Street in Jackson Heights gave […]

State DOT Pulls Transit Bait-and-Switch on Staten Island

By Ben Fried | Apr 8, 2009 | 17 Comments

Photo: SI Advance via MTR. One of the more common excuses we’ve been hearing from local pols during the current MTA crisis is that "service never improves," so why bother to fund transit? Set aside, for the moment, the fact that subways and buses are moving way more New Yorkers than they did just a […]

Livable Streets Community News: UWS Synagogue Joins Up

By Lily Bernheimer | Apr 3, 2009 | No Comments

Congregation B’nai Jeshurun. Photo via Wikipedia. Some good news comes to us this week of an Upper West Side synagogue’s support for Livable Streets. From Gil Kulich on the Upper West Side Streets Renaissance group blog: "I’m involved in an effort at Congregation B’nai Jeshurun, one of the largest and most influential synagogues on the […]

Stim Funds to Kickstart South Bronx Greenway

By Ben Fried | Apr 3, 2009 | 4 Comments

The Lafayette Avenue section of the South Bronx Greenway. Before/after: Sustainable South Bronx. We’ve got a few more details about another local ped-bike project getting a lift from stimulus cash. The street improvements announced for Hunts Point and Port Morris in the Bronx will fund the first three sections of the South Bronx Greenway. This […]

Working Families Party Leaps Into ‘Halt the Hike’ Mode

By Ben Fried | Apr 1, 2009 | 16 Comments

WFP director Dan Cantor. Photo: Drum Major Institute. Yesterday, after bridge tolls were officially ruled dead and before the latest breakdown in MTA rescue talks, the Working Families Party sent out an alert that its "Halt the Hike" campaign is back in full swing. In an email exchange with WFP spokesman Dan Levitan, I asked […]

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