Recent Streetsblog NYC posts about Transportation Alternatives

Residents Call for Better Crosstown Bike Routes on the Upper East Side

By Eric Jankiewicz | Oct 22, 2015 | 14 Comments

About 30 Upper East Side residents hit the streets last Saturday to evaluate potential routes for crosstown bike lanes in their neighborhood. For the “street scan” organized by Transportation Alternatives and Bike New York, the volunteers split up evenly between people on foot and people on bikes. Both groups surveyed three possible east-west routes to document current conditions for biking. Currently, the Upper East […]

From Heroes to Lapdogs, TA Grades the “Class of Vision Zero”

By Brad Aaron | Jul 31, 2015 | 2 Comments

On Wednesday Transportation Alternatives released its “Class of Vision Zero” report, the first in a planned series of biannual “performance reviews” of officials and agencies who have the power to make New York City streets safer for walking, biking, and driving. Traffic injuries and fatalities were down through June 2015 compared to the first six […]

Hunter Students Offer a Multi-Modal Vision for Queens Boulevard

By Stephen Miller | Jun 26, 2015 | 12 Comments

About a year ago, the Transportation Alternatives Queens activist committee approached the Hunter College urban planning program about Queens Boulevard. The advocates wanted help jumpstarting real-world changes on the street known as the Boulevard of Death. It was just a few months after Mayor Bill de Blasio announced his Vision Zero initiative to eliminate traffic deaths. If […]

The Fight to Preserve NYC’s Right of Way Law Moves to Assembly

By Ben Fried | Jun 24, 2015 | 3 Comments

We’re in Albany urging Assembly to reject a bill that would gut NYC’s #RightOfWay Law. Help #SaveTheCrosswalk NOW http://t.co/4ZKRQTUGbk — Families For Safe St (@NYC_SafeStreets) June 24, 2015 The promise of the Right of Way Law enacted by New York City last year is that it will lead to detailed investigations of crashes that injure pedestrians and […]

If DOT Can Accelerate Street Repaving, It Can Accelerate Safety Projects

By Stephen Miller | May 22, 2015 | 8 Comments

Mayor Bill de Blasio made a visit yesterday to one of the city’s more car-dependent areas, on Staten Island’s south shore, to tout an additional $242 million in his budget for street repaving. The additional money will bring the city’s repaving plan to a total 1,200 lane-miles through June 2016, a 20 percent boost over previous projections. Well-maintained streets […]

Can New York City Reform Its Dysfunctional Community Board System?

By Stephen Miller | May 1, 2015 | 7 Comments

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 […]

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