Recent Streetsblog NYC posts about Transportation Policy

Doctoroff Sets Stage for Something Bold, Creative & Expensive

By Aaron Naparstek | Mar 16, 2007 | 10 Comments

O Yesterday, Deputy Mayor Dan Doctoroff and MTA President Lee Sander delivered a pair of one-two speeches at the annual meeting of the New York Metropolitan Transportation Council. Sadly, the report I wrote up yesterday afternoon was eaten by my blog software. It was really good too. Much more entertaining than this one. What are […]

Coverage of Last Night’s Park Slope Meeting

By Aaron Naparstek | Mar 16, 2007 | 18 Comments

Big Crowd of Slopers Turn Out to Jeer One-Way Proposal (Gowanus Lounge) 400+ Slopers Deride DOT Plans for Sixth and Seventh Avenues (Yards Report) Slope Weighs One-Way Byways (Voice) Board votes down one-way proposal (Brooklyn Paper) Jonathan Barkey photos

DOT’s Park Slope One-Way Presentation

By Aaron Naparstek | Mar 16, 2007 | 7 Comments

Above is a bootlegged copy of DOT Deputy Commissioner Michael Primeggia’s Park Slope one-way traffic presentation. Though the plan is supposedly all about improving pedestrian safety, you can see for yourself that it is almost entirely concerned with the movement and flow of motor vehicles and the calculation of "vehicular level of service." In this […]

Brooklyn to City Hall: Give us Planning Not Traffic Engineering

By Aaron Naparstek | Mar 16, 2007 | 23 Comments

Last night the transportation committee of Community Board 6 fully and unequivocally rejected the Department of Transportation’s proposal to transform Park Slope, Brooklyn’s Sixth and Seventh Avenues into one-way arterials. I am a member of the commitee and typically we have about 15 people in the room. A big meeting will be 35. Last night, […]

The Power of Parking Policy

By Josh Brustein | Mar 15, 2007 | 4 Comments

This is the third in a three-part series on New York City parking policy.Part 1: The New York City Parking Boom Part 2: Parking: If You Build it They Will Come… in Their Cars Over the course of the last year, New York City’s transportation policy community has spent tremendous time, energy and money pursuing […]

StreetFilms: One Way is the Wrong Way

By Aaron Naparstek | Mar 14, 2007 | 10 Comments

StreetFilms: One Way is the Wrong Way Running time: 5 minutes 10 seconds In Park Slope, Brooklyn, the Department of Transportation has put forward a plan to convert a pair of two-way neighborhood avenues to one-way operation. DOT says that the plan is designed strictly "to make it safer for pedestrians crossing the street," but […]

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