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Streetfilms: Yesterday’s Traffic Relief Rally at City Hall

By Alec | | 1 Comment
Citywide Coalition for Traffic Relief Press Conference A few quick scenes from yesterday’s event Running time: 2:02 "As this city is booming, it’s not moving," lamented City Councilmember Gale Brewer outside City Hall yesterday. But with support from 125 civic groups in five boroughs, the Citywide Coalition for Traffic Relief assembled behind her and outlined […]

Traffic Relief Rally at City Hall This Morning

By Aaron Naparstek | | No Comments
Councilmember Gale Brewer joined Transportation Alternatives and representatives of community groups from all over the city at this morning’s Citywide Coalition for Traffic Relief rally on the steps of City Hall. The Coalition currently includes 129 community organizations. These organizations have signed on to a petition calling on the Bloomberg Administration to devlop "a comprehensive traffic […]

Rumor Mill: Sustainability Announcement Tomorrow

By Aaron Naparstek | | 30 Comments
Word has it that the Bloomberg Administration’s new Office of Long-Term Planning and Sustainability will unveil its first work product this coming Wednesday, November 15. It looks like this initial public announcement will be oriented more around the problems that the new office is thinking about and working on rather than the solutions. The solutions, I am told, may start to emerge as […]

The Cost of Doing Business in Midtown

By Aaron Naparstek | | 3 Comments
  New York City seems to be under some sort of SUV attack this week. In midtown this afternoon a hulking sports utility vehicle careened up onto the sidewalk and smashed through the window of the Cambridge Members clothing store on Broadway near Herald Square, according to a Streetsblog tipster. Word has it, three pedestrians […]

Cyclists and Pedestrians: Fighting Over the Scraps

By Aaron Naparstek | | 24 Comments
Cyclists and pedestrians somehow managing to get along with each other in Copenhagen. "Gridlock" Sam Schwartz’s op/ed piece in the Times City section yesterday is generating lots of discussion in the cycling community. Weirdly headlined, "Rolling Thunder," the editorial briefly examines the conflict between cyclists and pedestrians on New York City streets, acknowledges the antipathy that many walkers feel […]
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