Recent Streetsblog NYC posts about Schools

Students Launch NYU Bike-Share

By Streetsblog | | 5 Comments
The fence at Washington Square Park: a sign of latent demand for bike-share? New York University may be the enemy of many East and West Villagers over its plans to expand, but its students are finding other ways to cut the school’s environmental impacts: A group of undergrads and grads are gearing up for a […]

Jersey High School Students Protest Anti-Bike Policy

By Brad Aaron | | 68 Comments
Bridgewater-Raritan High doesn’t want to encourage cycling (or, apparently, walking) to school These kids today. Members of the student environmental club at New Jersey’s Bridgewater-Raritan High School raised $2,000 over the last four years, and what do they want to do with it? Give the school a bike rack, of all things. But Principal James […]

Driver-Nannies Keep Kids and Parents Safe From Transit

By Brad Aaron | | 33 Comments
  Here’s one for the anti-pricing populists.  Scared of or repulsed by public transportation, too impatient to wait for a cab, and burdened with excess cash, more well-to-do parents are enlisting driver-cum-nannies to ferry the kids to school and soccer practice, according to a recent article in the Observer. Say hello to the "Dranny." Jill […]

10,000 New Bike Parking Spaces for London Schools

By John Kaehny | | 2 Comments
Speaking of bike parking, 10,000 new bike parking spaces have been installed in 400 London schools since the 2004 launch of the Mayor’s School Cycle Parking Programme, Transport for London announced yesterday. This year alone TfL will spend £1.2 million on school bike parking (that’s $2.5 million and rising). Many of the new bike parking […]

Safety City: Where Cars Rule!

By Brad Aaron | | 15 Comments
As part of our back to school coverage, and in light of news from the past week, we thought it would be a good time to report on programs aimed at keeping kids safe on city streets. In addition to its ever-so-slowly evolving Safe Routes to School effort (three years in, improvements are soon expected […]
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