Recent Streetsblog NYC posts about Transportation Policy

Streetfilms Portland Week: Safe Routes to School

By Aaron Naparstek | Nov 3, 2006 | 6 Comments

As someone who lives in Brooklyn and pedals a two-year-old to daycare three days a week, I find the scenes depicted in this video to be completely incredible. There is no question in my mind that the future of New York City has to look something like this. –Editor Portland’s Safe Routes to SchoolA Clarence […]

DOT Culture: Stifling Innovation on NYC’s Streets?

By Aaron Naparstek | Nov 3, 2006 | 9 Comments

Upon re-reading this morning’s Times article on the new pedestrian countdown timers, I think it’s worth taking a closer look at this statement DOT Commissioner Iris Weinshall made at yesterday’s pedestrian countdown press conference. As reported: Mayor Bloomberg has been a fan of the countdown signals, but Iris Weinshall, the city’s transportation commissioner, had some […]

New Bike Markings For Brooklyn’s Fifth Ave. This Month

By Aaron Naparstek | Nov 3, 2006 | 6 Comments

Word has come down that DOT is now aiming to install its new Class III Shared Lane bicycle stencils on Brooklyn’s Fifth Avenue before the end of November. The markings are an interesting innovation for New York City in that they direct motorists and cyclists to share the middle of the road as equals. Drivers aren’t supposed to blast […]

London Calling. Are New York’s Leaders Really Listening?

By Aaron Naparstek | Nov 2, 2006 | 6 Comments

London officials closed the northern side of Trafalgar Square to traffic creating a vibrant new public space. Mayor Michael Bloomberg and Senator Chuck Schumer argue that New York City risks losing its place of global pre-eminence in a Wall Street Journal editorial yesterday. The editorial is a response to growing conventional wisdom that says London […]

San Fran Mayor Sets Ambitious Transportation Targets

By Aaron Naparstek | Nov 1, 2006 | 5 Comments

San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom (pictured right) emphasized quality of life issues in his annual State of the City address last week. Most significant, Newsom put forward an ambitious transportation agenda and laid out specific targets for increasing bicycling and reducing automobile use: We will continue our long term planning to create a citywide bicycle network, […]

Streetfilms Portland Week: Bicycle Boulevards

By Aaron Naparstek | Oct 31, 2006 | 11 Comments

Streetfilms’ Clarence Eckerson has been spending a lot of time in Portland learning about the politics, planning, engineering and culture behind that city’s phenomenal bike network. Working closely with Greg Raisman from Portland’s Dept. of Transportation Clarence produced a half hour documentary called "A Celebration of Portland Transportation." On Saturday, the film was shown on the big screen at Portland’s Bagdad […]

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