Recent Streetsblog NYC posts about Manhattan

SoHo Car Owners Mobilizing to Save Parking, Fight Bike Lanes

By Aaron Naparstek | Apr 18, 2007 | 19 Comments

The SoHo Alliance is at it again. The neighborhood organization that specializes in persecuting street vendors and artists rather than helping to figure out ways to carve out a bit of street space for them and all of the people over-spilling SoHo’s sidewalks, is now mobilizing against the City’s plan to install new bike lanes […]

Bus Bulbs Are Blooming

By Sarah Goodyear | Apr 18, 2007 | 15 Comments

According to a more-than-a-little-snarky post on Curbed, the first of Lower Broadway’s hotly anticipated bus bulbs has been constructed on Broadway south of Spring Street. As Streetsblog wrote when the DOT announced the plan to construct the bulbs back in March, this is a noteworthy development for several reasons: The benefits of bus bulbs include […]

Are Phone Booths on Ninth Avenue a Pedestrian Menace?

By Sarah Goodyear | Apr 18, 2007 | No Comments

As reported in Sunday’s City section of the Times (Times Select required), residents of Hell’s Kitchen are concerned that the placement of a double phone booth at the corner of 45th St. and Ninth Ave. may have been a contributing factor in two pedestrian fatalities at that intersection. On May 22, 2000, a tour bus […]

Pedi Politics

By Aaron Naparstek | Apr 17, 2007 | 6 Comments

On Monday, April 23, the day after Earth Day and the Mayor’s Long-Term Sustainability speech, City Council Speaker Christine Quinn plans to hold a decisive vote on Intro. 331-A, a law limiting and restricting pedicabs. Mayor Bloomberg vetoed the bill but rather than going back and trying to improve the legislation by, say, simply increasing […]

Eyes on the Street: Horse Lane?

By Glenn McAnanama | Apr 16, 2007 | 2 Comments

West 90th Street Bike Lane between Columbus and Central Park West This is one use of the new bike lane on W. 90th Street that I did not expect to see. I’ll leave it to someone else to submit this to MyBikeLane.com. Photo by Glenn McAnanama

Overheard on the Bus: NYC Bicyclists Losing the PR War

By Aaron Donovan | Apr 16, 2007 | 26 Comments

Stuck in traffic congestion all day long, one might think that New York City’s bus drivers might be at the center of the movement to reduce automobile dependence and encourage more efficent forms of urban transportation. But if the conversation I heard last week is representative, it’s the cyclists that are wrecking all that havoc […]

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