Recent Streetsblog NYC posts about Transportation Alternatives

Jim Brennan: It’s Okay to Fund Transit With Fees on Driving

By Ben Fried | Feb 25, 2009 | 3 Comments

A reader forwards this email from Assembly member Jim Brennan’s office, apparently sent in response to the "Keep New York Moving" petition in support of an MTA rescue plan: Thank you for your email regarding the MTA. the Ravitch Commission has identified that that the MTA faces a combined capital budget and operating deficit shortfall […]

Speeding Kills, and 39 Percent of New York Drivers Are Doing It

By Brad Aaron | Feb 12, 2009 | 68 Comments

Could speed have caused yesterday’s pedestrian fatality? We’ll probably never know. Photo: New York Daily News A new report from Transportation Alternatives confirms what New York pedestrians and cyclists have been forced to accept as a fact of life: A high number of drivers speed through city streets, regardless of the potentially deadly consequences for […]

Monday: ‘Bikes in Buildings’ Showdown at City Hall

By Ben Fried | Dec 5, 2008 | 7 Comments

Photo of the bike-accessible workplace at 6 West 48th Street: Transportation Alternatives [PDF] On Monday afternoon the City Council’s transportation committee will take up the Bikes in Buildings Bill, which addresses a major obstacle to bike commuting. The legislation would give people who work in commercial buildings the right to bring their bikes inside the […]

Brooklyn CBs Open to Prospect Park Road Diet

By Ben Fried | Dec 5, 2008 | 15 Comments

This summer volunteers clocked 90 percent of cars in Prospect Park exceeding the speed limit. Photo: Prospect Park Youth Advocates. On Tuesday, Transportation Alternatives made the case for a car-free Prospect Park to the transpo committee of Brooklyn Community Board 7. Reactions ran the gamut from wholehearted support to outright opposition, reports T.A.’s Lindsey Lusher-Shute. […]

CB4 Backs Eighth Avenue Cycle Track

By Streetsblog | Dec 4, 2008 | 4 Comments

From Caroline Samponaro, Director of Bicycle Advocacy for Transportation Alternatives: At last night’s Manhattan Community Board 4 meeting the full board voted overwhelmingly in support of the DOT’s proposed extension of the Eighth Avenue bike lane from 14th to 23rd Streets. Only two board members voted against this plan. Zero community members attended the meeting […]

We Are the Community Board Cranks We’ve Been Waiting For

By Brad Aaron | Nov 21, 2008 | 10 Comments

If you want to see more of this, and less of this, at the community board level, Transportation Alternatives is making it easier to apply for a spot on your own neighborhood CB. Next Monday, November 24, TA will host the "Community Board Join-Up Jammy-Jam" at the offices of The Open Planning Project. There will […]

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