What Does It Mean for Bike Advocacy When Big Business Hires the Advocates?
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It's either game-changing...or greenwashing.
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Paul Steely White to Leave Transportation Alternatives for Bird Scooters
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A crucial street safety group loses a longtime fixture.
Feast Your Eyes on the New Chrystie Street Protected Bike Lane
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The two-way protected bike lane on Chrystie Street is one of the most anticipated bike network improvements of the year, creating a much safer connection to and from the Manhattan side of the Manhattan Bridge. Today, DOT officials and State Senator Dan Squadron joined advocated for an inaugural ride on the redesigned street.
Can New York City Reform Its Dysfunctional Community Board System?
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New York City’s 59 community boards often serve as the sole venues where the public can assess and vet street design projects. But they are also structured in a way that inhibits any sort of change, giving de facto veto power over street improvements to a small clique who can serve for life. A bill in the City Council would establish […]
PlaNYC 2.0 Reactions: Paul Steely White, Transportation Alternatives
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Streetsblog has been calling around to transportation advocates and experts, gathering reactions to yesterday’s release of the first major update to PlaNYC 2030 since the citywide sustainability initiative was launched four years ago. Here’s our first installment, with Transportation Alternatives director Paul Steely — we’ll be posting more reactions later this afternoon. White told us […]
Streetfilms: Fixing the Great Mistake of Planning for Cars
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"Fixing the Great Mistake" is a new Streetfilms series that examines what went wrong in the early part of the 20th century, when our cities began catering to the automobile, and how those decisions continue to affect our lives today. In this episode, Transportation Alternatives director Paul Steely White shows how planning for cars drastically […]