Recent Streetsblog NYC posts about Transportation Alternatives

TransAlt Volunteers Keep Momentum Going for Midtown Complete Streets

By Larissa Zimberoff | Oct 20, 2014 | 1 Comment

Despite being flat, Fifth Avenue and Sixth Avenue have long been an uphill battle — for safe biking and walking that is. In 1980, in a decision well ahead of the times, Mayor Ed Koch had protected bike lanes installed on these heavily trafficked corridors, only to wipe away that groundbreaking work by removing the concrete barriers […]

Council Members Van Bramer, Levin Come Out on Top in TA Report Card

By Stephen Miller | Aug 27, 2014 | No Comments

Which members of the City Council have made transportation a priority this term? A new report card from Transportation Alternatives [PDF] ranks each borough’s delegation on whether its members sponsored 15 key transportation bills and resolutions signed by the mayor in the first six months of 2014. It found that, while a majority of council members are […]

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Sunnyside Becomes a Bike-Friendly Business District

By Clarence Eckerson Jr. | Aug 25, 2014 | No Comments

Transportation Alternatives has been working all across NYC to foster goodwill for bicycling in the business community. Recently, TA has begun to award Bike-Friendly Business District designations in neighborhoods where local merchants support bicycling and safer streets. The first one outside Manhattan is Sunnyside, Queens. Come along on this group ride that toured six of […]

TA Vision Zero Report: NYPD Traffic Enforcement Up, But Wildly Uneven

By Brad Aaron | Jul 31, 2014 | No Comments

NYPD increased enforcement of dangerous traffic violations during the first six months of the city’s Vision Zero initiative, but enforcement varied drastically from precinct to precinct, with some issuing fewer summonses than last year. In “Report Card: Six Months of Vision Zero Traffic Enforcement” [PDF], Transportation Alternatives analyzed NYPD summons data from January through June. TA […]

Tell Albany Where You’d Like to See Traffic Enforcement Cameras

By Brad Aaron | Mar 18, 2014 | 14 Comments

With Mayor de Blasio looking to gain home rule over NYC’s red light and speed cameras as part of the Vision Zero Action Plan, Transportation Alternatives wants to take your requests for camera locations to Albany. Here’s why local control is critical: Currently, Albany has limited NYC to a handful of speed cameras that can only be […]

Fixing Jay Street Starts With Cracking Down on Illegal Parking

By Stephen Miller | Mar 11, 2014 | 7 Comments

Jay Street, the north-south route often overshadowed by nearby car-clogged Adams Street and Flatbush Avenue, is a major artery in the heart of Downtown Brooklyn, flush with pedestrians going to and from the subway and cyclists heading to the Manhattan Bridge. It’s also overrun with illegally-parked drivers, creating an obstacle course for anyone trying to navigate […]

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