Recent Streetsblog NYC posts about Janette Sadik-Khan

Upper West Side Renaissance on WNYC

By Aaron Naparstek | Nov 6, 2007 | 3 Comments

This morning’s Brian Lehrer interview with Open Planning Project Director Mark Gorton, DOT Commissioner Janette Sadik-Khan and, ummm… 30 Rock’s Alec Baldwin, is now online. If you missed it, listen here:

Tune in to Brian Lehrer at 10:40am, WNYC, 93.9 FM

By Aaron Naparstek | Nov 6, 2007 | 5 Comments

Open Planning Project Executive Director Mark Gorton and Department of Transportation Commissioner Janette Sadik-Khan will be talking about this evening’s Upper West Side Streets Renaissance workshop with Jan Gehl on the Brian Lehrer Show, 93.9 FM, at 10:40am.

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 […]

Jan Gehl: Half of Manhattan Trips Could be Done by Bike

By Aaron Naparstek | Oct 31, 2007 | 1 Comment

If you haven’t heard it already, WNYC’s Arun Venugopal has an outstanding piece on New York City’s rapidly changing transportation policies regarding bicycling. We hear from T.A.’s Noah Budnick, Copenhagen’s Jan Gehl, DOT Commissioner Janette Sadik-Khan, NYPD Chief Ray Kelly, Judy Ross of Times Up, and a moron in a huge SUV. Click here or […]

MTA: Not Stealing Bikes. Just Following the Rules.

By Aaron Naparstek | Oct 25, 2007 | 23 Comments

The MTA has been taking a lot of flack following yesterday’s dust-up over MTA workers seizing bicycles locked to the Bedford Avenue subway station stairwell railing in Williamsburg. Perhaps the wrong transportation agency is taking the hit on this one. A camera phone-toting tipster sends along the above photo. It shows that, not only does […]

DOT Installs 58 Muni-Meters in Bensonhurst

By Brad Aaron | Oct 25, 2007 | 7 Comments

Is the Department of Transportation laying the groundwork for market rate, on-street parking? From a DOT media release yesterday: New York City Transportation Commissioner Janette Sadik-Khan today joined State Senator Marty Golden to announce the installation of credit card friendly Muni-Meters along 86th Street in Bensonhurst, Brooklyn. The Department of Transportation (DOT) installed 58 Muni-Meters […]

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