Caption Contest: MTA Public Outreach Strategy
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The MTA invites members of the public to a hearing on proposed fare changes. Who is going to come up with the best caption for this photo?
Recent Streetsblog NYC posts about Eyes on the Street
Is Transportation Reform Possible When the Cops Don’t Care?
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A reliable Streetsblog tipster sends along this photo of a police cruiser parked in the Department of Transportation’s new Ninth Avenue bike facility. The police officer seen getting into the car was returning from a nearby deli with what appeared to be lunch for him and his partner. Again, as we pointed out yesterday, the […]
Eyes on the Street: 34th Precinct Leads by Example
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As seen outside Wednesday’s 34th Precinct Community Council meeting. The driver of this livery cab stopped on Broadway, backed 90 degrees into the crosswalk, drove forward (about halfway across the crosswalk) to straighten out, then backed up again, taking up a good share of the disabled access curb ramp in the process. Then he and […]
Eyes on the Street: Inside the Stadium
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Here are snapshots of the scoreboard at Yankee Stadium last Sunday. (The Yanks beat Toronto, 7-5.) Despite the perceived parking hardship, average attendance at the stadium has been 52,739 this season, an all-time record. Naturally, this casts further doubt on the need for all those (all together now) publicly funded parking spaces — a project that has already caused actual […]
Fifth Avenue Will Get a New Buffered Bike Lane
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The Department of Transportation announced the installation of a buffered bike lane on Fifth Avenue in this month’s NYCycles, a monthly e-newsletter produced by DOT on cycling issues. In this photo taken yesterday, it is not clear where DOT plans to fit the buffered zone. The apparently temporary lines that were painted on a newly […]
New Bike Lanes in the South Bronx
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Some new Class 2 bike lanes have been striped in some out-of-the way places. The brand new Gerard Avenue bike lane, shown here at 149th Street, leads past a gas station to Yankee Stadium. This is listed as "planned" on the 2007 bike map (pdf), so it is nice to see the plan being filled out. It […]