No Courtesy, Professionalism or Respect for the Dead: Funeral Homes Blast Placard Abuse
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The only three certainties in life are death, taxes, and placard abuse.
Recent Streetsblog NYC posts about Carroll Gardens
DECISION 2021: Race to Succeed Brad Lander in Brooklyn is a Laboratory of Transportation Ideas
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Here's our primer on a key district that extends from Downtown Brooklyn to Flatbush and has been represented by Brad Lander and a former school board member named Bill de Blasio.
De Blasio’s Free Parking Obsession Is The Problem — As Scofflaw Cops Show
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Why does the mayor want to encourage more cops to drive to work? At the 76th Precinct in Carroll Gardens, more than half of the cops have at least one serious driving violation on their record.
5 Highlights From Last Night’s Bike-Share vs. Parking Meeting
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Last night’s Brooklyn Community Board 6 bike-share forum lacked the fireworks of previous meetings — no physical threats this time. While the tone was civil, the demands from the anti-bike-share crowd weren’t exactly reasonable. So far, Citi Bike has proven incredibly popular in CB 6, with some stations getting as much as seven rides per dock each day. That’s […]
Bike-Share Already Getting More Use Than Park Slope’s Free Parking Spots
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The new bike-share stations in Brooklyn south of Atlantic Avenue are getting a lot more use than your average free on-street parking space, according to recent Citi Bike data compiled by Carroll Gardens resident Viktor Geller [PDF]. Geller addressed the report to Brooklyn Community Board 6, which is holding a hearing on Thursday in response to complaints about bike-share stations […]
The Next Brooklyn Bike-Share Expansion Will Be the Thinnest Part of Citi Bike
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DOT unveiled its latest Citi Bike expansion map last week, and the stations look significantly more spread out than stations in the rest of the system. Spread-out stations are a problem for bike-share users because people have to walk farther to make trips, and that costs time. The National Association of City Transportation Officials recommends 28 stations per square mile — and […]