Recent Streetsblog NYC posts about Events

Help Transportation Alternatives spread the word about its important work. Activities include stuffing envelopes, folding t-shirts and sending out campaign materials with fellow activists. Volunteers must be at least 16 years old. No special skills required beyond stuffing envelopes, sticking stamps, etc.

Help Transportation Alternatives spread the word about its important work. Activities include stuffing envelopes, folding t-shirts and sending out campaign materials with fellow activists. Volunteers must be at least 16 years old. No special skills required beyond stuffing envelopes, sticking stamps, etc.

Todd Litman, Executive Director of the Victoria Transport Policy Institute will speak about his latest report, Win-Win Emission Reduction Strategies (pdf), which demonstrates how smart transportation strategies can achieve Kyoto emission reduction targets and help address problems such as traffic congestion, accidents and inadequate mobility for non-drivers. Litman is founder and executive director of the Victoria […]

Since Robert Moses’s time, there has been a paradigm shift in the way development takes place in New York City. This panel will address the nature of that shift and explore how present-day developers and public agencies address such key issues as the design and scale of projects, local participation in decision marking, and the […]

A distinguished panel of transportation experts will examine Robert Moses’s legacy of roads, bridges, tunnels and highways in the context of today’s transportation and transit agenda, stressing strategies for addressing the city’s current traffic problems and future demand for expanded and improved mass transit. Panelists will include Richard Ravitch, former chairman of the Metropolitan Transportation […]

Henry Stern, director of New York Civic and former parks commissioner, will lead a panel discussion on Robert Moses and the controversies that surrounded him, including such issues as parks and what could be built in them, race and class, and the role of community members in the decision-making process. Joining Mr. Stern will be […]