Recent Streetsblog NYC posts about Transportation Policy

There’s No Such Thing as “Free Parking”

By Aaron Naparstek | Mar 1, 2007 | 20 Comments

Free parking, it turns out, isn’t free. A new study by transportation guru Bruce Schaller finds that free parking in Manhattan’s Central Business district is responsible for a significant amount of New York City’s staggering traffic congestion. Schaller’s new study, Congested Streets: The Skewed Economic Incentives to Drive Into Manhattan (PDF), finds that free parking […]

City Council Passes New Pedicab Regulations

By Jason Varone | Mar 1, 2007 | 8 Comments

Reported in the New York Times: Chad Marlow, who represents the New York City Pedicab Owners Association, said the association agrees with much of the legislation, but plans to file a lawsuit challenging some elements of it. He said it believes that the Council was within its rights to impose a cap as the city […]

City Council Set To Vote on Pedicabs Today

By Jason Varone | Feb 28, 2007 | 7 Comments

onNYTurf reports: What started as a very positive process to bring much desired regulation to the growing pedicab industry has been completely turned on its head, and this afternoon city council is scheduled to vote on a bill that has become so twisted that the bill’s sponsor and a co-sponsor have taken their names off […]

DOT’s Plan for Park Slope Traffic “Improvements” Confirmed

By Aaron Naparstek | Feb 28, 2007 | 1 Comment

We have more details and official confirmation of DOT’s proposed changes for three Avenues running through Park Slope, Brooklyn. Brooklyn Community Board 6, which runs one of the better community board web sites out there, has posted its agenda for the next Transportation Committee meeting: Presentation and discussion of a proposal by the Department of […]

DOT to Propose Radical New Traffic Plan for Park Slope

By Aaron Naparstek | Feb 28, 2007 | 105 Comments

Park Slope’s Fifth Avenue: a pedestrian- and bike-friendly, two-way, neighborhood Main Street. New York City’s Department of Transportation is getting set to propose a major change in the way cars and trucks flow through the avenues and streets of Park Slope, Brooklyn.Sources say that the plan will include the following: Fourth Avenue, a major six-lane […]

No Parking Slope

By Aaron Naparstek | Feb 27, 2007 | 28 Comments

The B67 bus veers around a double-parked van blocking a car parked in front of a fire hydrant as a Bugaboo-pushing nanny strolls by Councilmember David Yassky and Transportation Alternatives director Paul Steely White calling for more sensible parking policy this afternoon in Park Slope, Brooklyn. Every drivers knows that it can be nearly impossible […]

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