Recent Streetsblog NYC posts about Interviews

Taking the Guesswork Out of Rating BRT: An Interview With Walter Hook

By John Greenfield | Mar 13, 2013 | No Comments

There’s a new global benchmark for rating bus rapid transit projects. Yesterday the Institute for Transportation and Development Policy released the BRT Standard 2013, which lays out the requirements for bus routes to qualify as BRT and scores 50 systems in 35 cities around the world as basic, bronze, silver, or gold based on various […]

Author Jeff Speck on Walkability and the One Mistake That Can Wreck a City

By Angie Schmitt | Dec 19, 2012 | No Comments

What makes a city great? According to Jeff Speck, the secret sauce is, quite simply, walking. If your city is a good place to walk — that is, walking is safe, comfortable, interesting, and useful — everything else will fall into place. In Walkable City, his talked-about manifesto about healthy urban places, Speck lays out a […]

Don’t Call It a Merger: America’s Big Three Bike/Ped Advocates Join Forces

By Tanya Snyder | Feb 28, 2012 | No Comments

Last week, three leading organizations advocating for biking and walking issued a communiqué [PDF] about their intention to unify. According to the plan, hashed out two weeks ago at a top-level meeting in San Diego, the League of American Bicyclists, the Alliance for Biking and Walking, and Bikes Belong will become one organization, with one board of directors. Streetsblog […]

Former House Transpo Chair James Oberstar on the Post-Interstate Era

By Tanya Snyder | Oct 14, 2011 | No Comments

Streetsblog had a chance today to ask the former Democratic chief of the House Transportation Committee, Rep. James Oberstar of Minnesota, about life since the 2010 election, when he lost by a hair to Republican Chip Cravaack. He said he’s spending his post-Congress time traveling to France, getting paid to say things he used to […]

Larry Hanley: Part-Time Labor Won’t Save American Transit

By Tanya Snyder | Aug 5, 2011 | No Comments

Streetsblog sat down last week with Larry Hanley, the president of the Amalgamated Transit Union and member of the AFL-CIO executive council. Yesterday, we published the first part of our interview, focusing on movement-building around transit. Here, we had a vigorous discussion about union rules and Buy America provisions that are the subject of some […]

Dan Biederman: “If You Try to Change Things, You Get Opposition”

By Ben Fried | Aug 4, 2011 | 4 Comments

Here’s the second installment of Streetsblog’s interview with Dan Biederman, head of the 34th Street Partnership and the Bryant Park Corporation. In the first part of the interview, Biederman discussed reactions to NYC DOT’s recent public space projects on Broadway, and why the reality on the ground is much better for Midtown than most press […]

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