Recent Streetsblog NYC posts about Air Quality

Weiner’s Congestion Testimony: Anything But Pricing

By Sarah Goodyear | Nov 1, 2007 | 30 Comments

If nothing else, gridlocked traffic is a good marketing opportunity for Oscar Mayer’s Wienermobile. US Rep. Anthony Weiner was one of the first voices to speak up against Mayor Bloomberg’s proposal for a three-year congestion pricing pilot project and he remains one of the loudest. In his testimony Oct. 25 before the NYC Traffic Mitigation […]

Congestion Pricing Supporters Speak Up in Queens

By Aaron Naparstek | Oct 31, 2007 | 10 Comments

Meghan Goth reports: With city buses slogging their way past double-parked cars on Archer Avenue just outside, Queens community members and elected officials testified on Mayor Michael Bloomberg’s proposal for a three-year congestion pricing pilot program at York College Performing Arts Center last night. The Traffic Congestion Mitigation hearing, one of seven being held around […]

RSVP Today to Re-Imagine Manhattan’s Upper West Side

By Aaron Naparstek | Oct 31, 2007 | 2 Comments

Help shape the neighborhood streets of the Upper West Side. Work with your neighbors to create beautiful, green streets with safer bike lanes, great walking spaces, less traffic and cleaner air. The Upper West Side Streets Renaissance Campaign is holding a series of events aimed at empowering residents to re-imagine neighborhood streets and make their […]

Bloomberg Visits the Bronx. Dinowitz Anti-Pricing Rally Fizzles.

By Aaron Naparstek | Oct 31, 2007 | 3 Comments

Mayor Bloomberg and city agency commissioners answered questions in Riverdale last night. Megan Chuchmach reports: The auditorium at PS 24 in Riverdale was packed Tuesday night, as Mayor Michael Bloomberg and his commissioners entertained an estimated couple hundred Bronx residents at a town hall-esque style meeting organized by the Northwest Bronx Democratic Alliance and the […]

Philly CarShare Helps City Government Reduce Its Fleet

By Jason Varone | Oct 30, 2007 | 5 Comments

The Philly CarShare program (Motto: "Why own when you can borrow?") is one of the most successful of its kind in the country. Currently in its fifth year, the Philadelphia-based non-profit recently surpassed 30,000 members and is generating $10 million annually to pay for a small staff, the purchase and maintenance of a fleet, and […]

Warning: Driving Could Be Hazardous to Your Health

By Jason Varone | Oct 30, 2007 | 2 Comments

Last week, the European Parliament proposed that car advertisements throughout the EU include tobacco-style health warnings about the environmental impact of automobiles. The New York Times reported: Under the plan, 20 percent of the space or time of any auto ad would have to be set aside for information on a car’s fuel consumption and […]

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