Recent Streetsblog NYC posts about Commuting

1,200 Pack Town Hall for “How New Yorkers Ride Bikes”

By Aaron Naparstek | Oct 8, 2007 | 5 Comments

Streetfilms’ Clarence Eckerson was at Town Hall on Saturday night for the New Yorker Festival’s "How New Yorkers Ride Bikes," hosted by former Talking Heads frontman David Byrne. Clarence wasn’t allowed to film the event so he published a nice write-up on StreetFilms. Some excerpts: Mr. Byrne, dressed in black and sporting his cool taxi-yellow […]

My First Bike Commute Over the East River

By Alex Marshall | Oct 2, 2007 | 17 Comments

"Necessity is the mother of convenience" is what I found to be true this morning as I rode for the very first time from my home in Crown Heights all the way to Union Square in Manhattan. To experienced bike commuters, this would be nothing to brag about. But while a frequent cycler around my […]

Variable Pricing at MTA Bridges and Tunnels Would Ease Traffic

By Jason Varone | Sep 26, 2007 | 8 Comments

Over the past few weeks, the Tri-State Transportation Campaign has been collaborating with environmental economist Charles Komanoff to assess the impact of various value-pricing scenarios on travel patterns at MTA toll facilities, like the Throgs Neck Bridge, at right. From this week’s Mobilizing the Region: A TSTC analysis recommends that the MTA enact variable tolls […]

A Crash Course on Driver Safety for Parks Dept. Employees

By Jason Varone | Aug 29, 2007 | 16 Comments

A Parks Dept. truck crashes a Central Park wedding Following Parks Commissioner Adrian Benepe’s recent reminder for "Parkies" to drive safely and the revocation of parking permits on Central Park’s East Drive, the Parks Dept. recently sent out another mass e-mail to employees noting that "in the last few months we have seen an increase […]

Bike & Ped Improvements Slated for Manhattan Bridge Approach

By Sarah Goodyear | Aug 27, 2007 | 18 Comments

DOT plans to build a physically-separated two-way bike lane on this one block stretch of Canal Street at the foot of the Manhattan Bridge. The project also includes pedestrian safety fixes. The Manhattan approach to the Manhattan Bridge, where Chinatown and the Lower East Side come together in a jumble, has long presented one of […]

Ich bin ein Bicyclist

By Jason Varone | Aug 24, 2007 | 17 Comments

In a report for CBSnews.com on Berlin, Germany’s booming bike culture, Christine Lagorio expresses shock at the sheer number of bikes she saw in Berlin and the way in which motorists and cyclists share the road "gracefully." This, she says, is something she has never experienced in her home town of New York City. In […]

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