Recent Streetsblog NYC posts about Urban Planning

Q&A With Transportation Commissioner Janette Sadik-Khan

By Aaron Naparstek | Jun 20, 2007 | 20 Comments

Streetsblog interviewed DOT Commissioner Janette Sadik-Khan at 40 Worth St., Monday, June 18. Photo: Brad Aaron Janette Sadik-Khan: Four days. Streetsblog: Left in the legislative session? JSK: Yeah, well, maybe four days left, maybe more days. August in Albany. What can be better? SB: (Laughing) So, let’s start with something other than congestion pricing. How […]

Jackson Heights: New Front in One-Way Battle

By Sarah Goodyear | Jun 19, 2007 | 9 Comments

A view of 35th Ave. in Jackson Heights, part of the DOT’s proposed one-way pair for the neighborhood Apparently undeterred by the resounding community rejection of proposed one-way streets in Park Slope in March, the city’s Department of Transportation is proposing changing two major thoroughfares in Jackson Heights from two-way to one-way. The proposal, which […]

Will the Revitalized High Bridge be Bike-Friendly?

By Aaron Donovan | Jun 19, 2007 | 43 Comments

This is a guest post by Susan Murray, author of the Urban Naturalist. The High Bridge, a graceful stone and steel bridge, reminiscent of the great Roman aqueducts, spans the Harlem River between parks in Washington Heights and the Highbridge neighborhood in the Bronx. Erected in 1848, decades before the Brooklyn and Manhattan Bridges, it […]

California Sues Municipalities for Bad Urban Planning

By Jason Varone | Jun 11, 2007 | 2 Comments

USA Today reports on a new development in the fight against climate change: California is pioneering what could be the next battleground against global warming: filing suit to hold cities and counties accountable for greenhouse gas emissions caused by poorly planned suburban sprawl. The unprecedented action is being closely watched by states that have taken […]

T.A.: City, State Parking Drive Would Torpedo Taxi Initiative

By Brad Aaron | Jun 5, 2007 | 10 Comments

The increase in CO2 caused by over 20,000 parking spaces sought by the city would "effectively take away more than one-third of the gains" promised by Mayor Bloomberg’s hybrid cab plan. As previously reported on Streetsblog, the city and state are currently teaming up to bring some 20,000 new parking spaces to Manhattan’s far West […]

StreetFilms: Sadik-Khan Rides the Tour de Brooklyn

By Clarence Eckerson Jr. | Jun 4, 2007 | 2 Comments

Tour de Brooklyn – 2007 A StreetFilm by Clarence Eckerson Jr.Running Time: 3 minutes 25 seconds The third annual Tour de Brooklyn was a special treat as New York City DOT Commissioner Janette Sadik-Khan rode the entire event with over 2,000 enthusiastic cyclists. The new commissioner introduced herself to riders at the beginning of […]

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