Recent Streetsblog NYC posts about Out of Town

Man “Tasered” and Arrested for Leaving Airport by Bike

By Aaron Naparstek | Jun 13, 2007 | 4 Comments

If you think handing out traffic tickets to Central Park cyclists or random seizures of locked bicycles qualifies as outrageous police behavior, check out what happened to Stephan Orsak when he tried to leave the Minneapolis St. Paul International Airport on his Brompton folding bicycle. He says that he was pulled over by a police […]

California Sues Municipalities for Bad Urban Planning

By Jason Varone | Jun 11, 2007 | 2 Comments

USA Today reports on a new development in the fight against climate change: California is pioneering what could be the next battleground against global warming: filing suit to hold cities and counties accountable for greenhouse gas emissions caused by poorly planned suburban sprawl. The unprecedented action is being closely watched by states that have taken […]

Chicago Alley Initiative Shows How to Make Streets Greener

By Jason Varone | Jun 7, 2007 | No Comments

Chicago’s Department of Transportation started the Green Alleys Program to use the city’s many alleyways to conserve natural resources and improve the environment. Although New York City doesn’t have too many alleys, the beautifully-designed, 47-page Green Alleys Program booklet (PDF) offers several techniques that could still be useful in making New York City streets perform […]

No Clothes, No Cars, Just Bikes

By Jason Varone | Jun 6, 2007 | 2 Comments

Brooklyn photographer Spencer Tunick, known for photographing thousands of naked people in public settings worldwide, is at it again, this time in Amsterdam. The Siyney Morning Herald reports: Dozens of women posed naked on their bicycles on a bridge over one of Amsterdam’s historic canals on Sunday – a unique sight even in a city […]

Ciclovia: Is NYC Ready?

By Ethan Kent | Jun 6, 2007 | 15 Comments

With a successful Bike Month now behind us and a spectacular Tour de Brooklyn completed, we perhaps have an opportunity to dream bigger for how we can celebrate our bicyclists, our streets and communities in this city. I was recently in Bogotá for their weekly Ciclovia event and experienced first hand what may be one […]

London Finds “No Adverse Impact” Outside Charging Zone

By Aaron Naparstek | Jun 4, 2007 | 1 Comment

With many New York City elected officials expressing concern that Mayor Bloomberg’s congestion pricing study will create numerous problems in the neighborhoods just outside the charging zone, now is a good time to take a look at the extensive "Boundary Impacts Study" undertaken by Transport for London in its Fourth Annual Monitoring Report The London […]

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