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Stockholm Voters OK Congestion Charging

By Aaron Naparstek | Sep 18, 2006 | 3 Comments

From this morning’s International Herald Tribune: Near-complete results for the Sunday referendum showed that 51.7 percent of Stockholm voters approved the traffic toll, while 45.6 percent voted against it. The congestion fee was contested when city officials introduced it in a seven-month trial that ran between January and July. Public opinion swung in favor of […]

Streetsblog Interview: Ryan Russo

By Aaron Naparstek | Sep 14, 2006 | 10 Comments

Ryan Russo is the New York City Department of Transportation’s Director for Street Management and Safety, a newly-created job that he started in July. Previously, Russo worked as DOT’s Downtown Brooklyn Transportation Coordinator where he was instrumental in designing and developing a number of improvements for pedestrians, cyclists and more livable streets (PDF file) over the last three years. Streetsblog caught up […]

U.K. Study Finds Wearing a Bike Helmet May be More Dangerous

By Aaron Naparstek | Sep 14, 2006 | 9 Comments

We are certainly still going to be wearing our helmets when we ride bikes on New York City streets, but here is an interesting study by Dr. Ian Walker a "traffic psychologist" from Bath University in Great Britain. Walker found that motorists drove more safely and carefully when passing cyclists who were not wearing helmets. […]

New York City’s Opinion-Makers Turn Attention to Traffic

By Aaron Naparstek | Sep 13, 2006 | 13 Comments

Today’s Times Select, a subscriber-only web site, has published a lengthy manifesto on New York City traffic and transportation by Carolyn Curiel. It urges Mayor Bloomberg to listen to the ideas being generated by the Citywide Coalition for Traffic Relief, and suggests that his legacy depends on it. Increasingly, one gets the sense that the […]

Ground Control for Commissioner Tom

By Aaron Naparstek | Sep 12, 2006 | 5 Comments

New York City Department of Health Commissioner Thomas Frieden speaking at today’s event in Central Park announcing a major new bicycle safety initiative. Behind him, from left to right, are Parks Commissioner Adrian Benepe, Transportation Commissioner Iris Weinshall, and NYPD Chief of Transportation Michael Scagnelli. No Mayor Bloomberg but, hey, three commissioners and a police […]

Specific Commitments From the City on Bike Safety

By Aaron Naparstek | Sep 12, 2006 | 15 Comments

As part of today’s big announcement on bike safety improvements, the City is committing to undertaking the following actions. From the City’s press release: Bicycle Infrastructure Improvements Over the next three years DOT will install 200 miles of bicycle facilities with targets of 5 miles of Class I separated paths, 150 miles of Class II […]

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