Recent Streetsblog NYC posts about Eyes on the Street

Eyes on the Street: MetroCard Bike

By Aaron Donovan | Oct 12, 2006 | 4 Comments

”The use of cycles has a place,” Councilman John Liu recently told the Times. ”But it doesn’t come anywhere near the capability of mass transit in making our city greener.” Whichever mode is greener, this New Yorker has all of his or her bases covered.

Eyes on the Street: Prospect Park, Brooklyn

By Aaron Naparstek | Oct 9, 2006 | 8 Comments

A Streetsblog tipster notices that Prospect Park motorists seem to be unindoctrinated in the ways of the Litterbug: Since I have been training for this half marathon, I have been doing more running in Prospect Park than bike riding the last few weeks. Each of the last three times I have run in the park […]

Eyes on the Street: Amsterdam

By Aaron Naparstek | Oct 6, 2006 | 8 Comments

After Copenhagen, I visited Holland for a few days as a part of my German Marshall Fellowship. I will be writing more about some of the people I met and spoke with there, but for now I just wanted to share these photos from Amsterdam: For me, one of the things that makes Amsterdam and […]

Eyes on the Street: German Bike Parking

By Nick Grossman | Oct 5, 2006 | 14 Comments

Copenhagen is getting all the attention lately, but it’s not the only livable European city with great cycling facilities. Last week, I visited Munich for work, and found that the cycling culture there is strong, particularly as measured by the excellent bike parking facilities. They seem to be in all the right places: Outside the subway: Instead […]

Copenhagen: Texture

By Aaron Naparstek | Oct 3, 2006 | No Comments

Eyes on the street in Copenhagen, Denmark — literally. Evidence that a city is more than just a skyline:

Eyes on the Street: Bicoastal Streetcars

By Aaron Donovan | Sep 28, 2006 | 26 Comments

Brooklyn San Francisco Like Clarence Eckerson, I recently returned from a visit to San Francisco. I left with a feeling that San Francisco has the best urban surface transportation in the country: emissions-free buses drawing power from overhead wires, regular buses, cable cars moving up and down steep hills, many cyclists despite those hills, partially buried lightrail and […]

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