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CB4 Committee Supports Eighth Avenue Cycle Track

By Brad Aaron | | 11 Comments
Last night, the transportation committee of Manhattan Community Board 4 voted 8-2 in support of extending the protected bike lane on Eighth Avenue, now under construction below W. 14th Street, north to 23rd. Wiley Norvell of Transportation Alternatives sends this account. The meeting turnout was high, with roughly 40 people speaking 2-1 in favor of […]

CityRacks Winner: It’s a Standing O

By Brad Aaron | | 22 Comments
Danish Ambassador Torben Getterman accepts on behalf of the winning designers. Photo: Nathan John. Winners of the CityRacks Design Competition were announced this morning. First place for outdoor rack went to Ian Mahaffy and Maarten De Greeve (Bettlelab) of Copenhagen, whose prototype will be adopted as "the new standard bicycle rack installed on New York […]

Manhattan Buses Dominate Pokey and Schleppie Awards

By Brad Aaron | | 5 Comments
Gene Russianoff of the Straphangers Campaign (l) and TA’s Paul Steely White unveil this year’s honorees Two Manhattan bus routes took home awards for slowest and least reliable service in the 2008 Pokey and Schleppie Awards, issued today by the Straphangers Campaign and Transportation Alternatives. The Pokey went to the M96 crosstown, which clocked an […]

TA: Zoning Great for Tomorrow; Bike Access Can Improve Today

By Ben Fried | | 2 Comments
From a statement released by Transportation Alternatives in response to this morning’s bike parking announcement (emphasis added): Transportation Alternatives applauds the Bloomberg Administration’s announcement that the zoning code will now require indoor bicycle parking at all new office and apartment buildings. In enabling future New Yorkers to undertake zero emission commutes, this is a large […]

Designing NYC Streets for the 21st Century

By Ben Fried | | 3 Comments
Earlier this week Transportation Alternatives announced the winners of its "21st Century Street" design competition, selecting three entries from more than a hundred submissions re-imagining the intersection of Fourth Avenue and Ninth Street in Brooklyn. Juror Michelle de la Uz, director of the Fifth Avenue Committee, listed safety and the pedestrian environment as her top […]

TA Rolls Out CrashStat Improvements

By Brad Aaron | | 8 Comments
E. 33rd St. and Park Ave. was the city’s most dangerous intersection between 1995 and 2005. Transportation Alternatives’ CrashStat 2.0 is now out of beta, with improvements in performance and functionality. The most obvious change is that the data loads a lot faster, and the icons are cleaner. There are more data points, too: the […]
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