Recent Streetsblog NYC posts about PlaNYC

For First Time, NYC Will Fund Plaza Maintenance in Low-Income Areas

By Stephen Miller | Jun 19, 2015 | 5 Comments

Since it launched nearly eight years ago, DOT’s public plaza program has relied on a public-private model: The city funds plaza installation and construction, while local partners pick up the tab for maintenance and operations. This works well in some parts of town but is a more difficult proposition in low-income communities. Now, for the […]

Transportation Tidbits in This Year’s PlaNYC Check-In

By Stephen Miller | Apr 24, 2014 | 3 Comments

To mark Earth Day on Monday, the de Blasio administration released its first PlaNYC progress report [PDF], the latest annual check-in on the citywide sustainability plan released in 2007. The report includes a few facts about the city’s progress on its transportation goals: DOT’s PARK Smart program, which sets the price of on-street parking in response […]

PlaNYC 2.0 Reactions: Rachel Weinberger, UPenn Professor

By Noah Kazis | Apr 26, 2011 | 3 Comments

Streetsblog has been gathering responses to last week’s release of PlaNYC 2.0. This is the fourth installment. Read the first, second, and third parts. In a phone interview with Streetsblog yesterday, Rachel Weinberger, a professor at the University of Pennsylvania and an architect of the transportation section of PlaNYC 1.0, gave us her take on the update of […]

PlaNYC 2.0 Reactions: Kate Slevin, Tri-State Transportation Campaign

By Ben Fried | Apr 22, 2011 | No Comments

Streetsblog has been gathering responses to yesterday’s release of PlaNYC 2.0. This is the third installment. Read the first and second parts. In a phone interview yesterday afternoon, Kate Slevin, executive director of the Tri-State Transportation Campaign, shared her first impressions of the city’s revised sustainability plan… On the diminished prominence of transportation compared to […]

PlaNYC 2.0 Reactions: Joan Byron, Pratt Center for Community Development

By Ben Fried | Apr 22, 2011 | 5 Comments

Streetsblog has been gathering responses to yesterday’s release of PlaNYC 2.0. This is the second installment. Read the first part here. Joan Byron, director of policy at the Pratt Center for Community Development, told us the update to the city’s sustainability plan includes some promising developments on the truck traffic front. She noted that some […]

PlaNYC 2.0 Reactions: Paul Steely White, Transportation Alternatives

By Ben Fried | Apr 22, 2011 | No Comments

Streetsblog has been calling around to transportation advocates and experts, gathering reactions to yesterday’s release of the first major update to PlaNYC 2030 since the citywide sustainability initiative was launched four years ago. Here’s our first installment, with Transportation Alternatives director Paul Steely — we’ll be posting more reactions later this afternoon. White told us […]

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