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Renewed Calls for Ped Safety Summit as Death Toll Mounts

By Brad Aaron | Oct 8, 2007 | 6 Comments

After a weekend that saw three pedestrian fatalities and just as many serious injuries — with no known criminal charges filed against any of the motorists involved as of this writing — a Manhattan-based advocacy group has renewed calls for action on pedestrian safety. Spurred by the death of third-grader Prince Harris, Jr. (pictured), the […]

“En-Suite” Parking, for the Discerning Antisocial Urbanite

By Brad Aaron | Oct 8, 2007 | 16 Comments

Love the glamor and glitz of the city but looking to avoid unpleasant public spaces, like sidewalks and building lobbies? Then 200 Eleventh Avenue in Chelsea may be for you. Featuring "New York’s first En-Suite Sky Garage," which will allow residents to enter and exit their apartments without coming into contact with another human soul, […]

Congestion Pricing Should be Attached to Parking Reform

By Aaron Naparstek | Oct 5, 2007 | 36 Comments

The daily scene on SoHo’s Crosby Street, jammed with illegally parked government employees. The Observer reported on Wednesday that Walter McCaffrey’s Committee to Keep New York City Congestion Tax Free recently solicited UCLA parking policy guru Donald Shoup to do a study of curbside parking policy in New York. Carolyn Konheim, a Brooklyn-based transportation consultant […]

Memorials Held for Thomson and Miller

By Brad Aaron | Oct 4, 2007 | No Comments

From Time’s Up!: Cyclist and pedestrian advocates gathered [Tuesday] night at the corner of Houston Street and 6th Avenue where Hope Miller was killed by a drug-impaired driver on September 25th. An honorary plaque provided by Street Memorials and a memorial stencil, bearing Hope Miller’s name and date of death, were placed near the crash […]

A Ride Down NYC’s “Street of the Future”

By Aaron Naparstek | Oct 4, 2007 | 35 Comments

For years, Livable Streets advocates have pleaded with New York City’s Department of Transportation to just try new things. Do street design experiments using temporary materials. Give new ideas a shot. If an experiment doesn’t work, take it down, redesign it, improve it or, heck, just restore it to how it used to be. What […]

New Ninth Avenue Separated Bike Path is Already in Place

By Aaron Naparstek | Oct 3, 2007 | 18 Comments

The unprecedented new physically-separated bike path running along Chelsea’s Ninth Avenue has already been set up using temporary materials. The Department of Transportation is billing it as New York City’s "street of the future." New York 1 reported yesterday: Bicyclists have a new lane to use in Chelsea, and the city is hoping to expand […]

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