Recent Streetsblog NYC posts about Transportation Policy

CB2 Committee Approves “Additional” Prince/Bleecker Routes

By Brad Aaron | Apr 12, 2007 | 3 Comments

The CB2 Traffic & Transportation Committee met at the LGBT Center on Tuesday. A crowded and often contentious Tuesday night meeting yielded a compromise on proposed bike lanes through Lower Manhattan, one some fear could come at a cost. The Traffic & Transportation Committee of Community Board 2 voted 8-1 to recommend the DOT add […]

We Must Imagine a Future Without Cars

By Aaron Naparstek | Apr 11, 2007 | 7 Comments

From Alternet, the following is an excerpted version of James Howard Kunstler‘s recent speech to the Commonwealth Club of California, well worth reading in its entirety. An audio stream of the speech is also available: Two years ago in my book The Long Emergency I wrote that our nation was sleepwalking into an era of […]

Co-op City Group Wants Bus Rapid Transit to Keep Its Distance

By Jason Varone | Apr 10, 2007 | 3 Comments

Even though Bus Rapid Transit may have the support of the city’s DOT, more roadblocks may await its implementation — in the form of community groups set on protecting the status quo in their neighborhoods. A dispute over one route is brewing in the Bronx, as reported in a recent Daily News story: The proposed […]

City Pitches in for Yankee Stadium Parking

By Brad Aaron | Apr 9, 2007 | 16 Comments

What could be worse than replacing neighborhood parks with private parking decks, built with the specific intent of increasing car trips by the tens of thousands through a community already suffering from so much disease-causing pollution that its nickname is "Asthma Alley"? How about forcing afflicted residents to help foot the bill? That’s what could […]

Park Slope Passes on Traffic-Calming, Ped Safety & Bike Lanes

By Aaron Naparstek | Apr 6, 2007 | 24 Comments

Gowanus Lounge reports on the debate over DOT’s 9th Street redesign plan at last night’s Park Slope Civic Council meeting. The Civic Council voted overwhelmingly to "table" a plan that would provide the neighborhood with improved pedestrian safety on one of the most hazardous streets in the area, enhanced cyclist safety along a key access […]

Primeggia’s One-Way Safety Claims Are Based on 1970s Studies

By Aaron Naparstek | Apr 6, 2007 | 3 Comments

DOT Deputy Commissioner Michael Primeggia on March 15: "I know that two-way streets are less safe." A couple of weeks ago, following the epic, 650-person "One Way? No Way!" public meeting in Park Slope, Brooklyn Papers columnist Gersh Kuntzman accused his fellow Park Slopers of being "closed-minded, anti-intellectual whiners" for rejecting DOT Deputy Commissioner Michael […]

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