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Word on the Street: Pricing “Like Charging You to Breathe”

By Brad Aaron | Jan 31, 2008 | 1 Comment

WNYC had a short piece on the upcoming congestion panel vote this morning. It’s a series of "word on the street" comments. Some of them are funny, others not so much. The gist is that a lot of people still don’t know — or don’t believe — that pricing revenues will be invested in transit. […]

Parking Workshops Set for Queens and Brooklyn

By Brad Aaron | Jan 28, 2008 | 6 Comments

The Department of Transportation will hold three more neighborhood parking workshops this week, two in Queens and one in Brooklyn. In tandem with congestion pricing, residential parking permits and other curbside parking reforms being considered by DOT could eventually lead to city-wide reductions in neighborhood traffic and double parking. As shown by Streetsbloggers who have […]

Illegal Parking Now “Legal” for Marty Markowitz

By Brad Aaron | Jan 16, 2008 | 16 Comments

Yesterday we wondered if the city might be convinced to reconcile its vision of a sustainable city with its anti-urban parking policies. We’ll mark this one in the "no" column. Late last week Brooklyn Borough President Marty Markowitz was busted by Uncivil Servants for parking on the sidewalk in front of Borough Hall during a […]

From Mad Messenger to More Peaceful Cyclist

By Alex Marshall | Jan 14, 2008 | 11 Comments

Alex Marshall some time in the not-too-distant future… A long time ago, in a galaxy far, far away, I was a bicycle courier. It was in the fall of 1979, during the semester I took off from college to start a rock band in Washington DC with friends. When not playing guitar in a roach-infested […]

What is Your Idea for Grand Army Plaza?

By Aaron Naparstek | Jan 8, 2008 | 2 Comments

The Grand Army Plaza Coalition, which recently won a grant from the Design Trust for Public Spaces, has launched an Ideas Competition for its Reinventing Grand Army Plaza project. If you want to participate, answer the following questions in full sentences, and email your responses by the end of the week to survey@reinventingGAP.org. 1. What […]

Ghost Bikes Memorial Ride Marks Another Year of Loss

By Charles Komanoff | Jan 7, 2008 | 3 Comments

Grief, solidarity and resolve brought out two hundred New York cyclists yesterday for the third annual Ghost Bikes Memorial Ride, to commemorate cyclists killed by motor vehicle drivers last year. At the Canal Street & Bowery triangle by the entrance to the Manhattan Bridge bike path, Steve Hindy raised his empty arms in a pantomime […]

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