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T.A. News
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T.A. In the News Latest 1/25 Makeover for WTC Area? Plants, open air and light, Daily News, January 25, 2002 1/23 7% Drop in Accidents, But traffic deaths increase slightly, Daily News 1/18 Gifted Gifford, The New City Council Speaker: So What's Miller Mulling Over?, On the Line, WNYC Radio 1/17-23 Pelham Parkway intersection named to "deadliest" list, The Bronx Times Reporter 1/15 Traffic trouble zone: Beep pushes safe routes in University Heights, Daily News 1/11-17 Residents Protest Another Dangerous Crossing, Queens Tribune 1/9-15 Think Queens Blvd. Is The Borough’s Most Dangerous Road? Think Again. Residents Demand More Safety Controls on Northern Blvd., Queens Courier 1/7 Dangerous Bronx intersections named, News 12 1/6 Danger Is Lurking Where Speed And Thickets of Humanity Meet, New York Times 1/3 It's All Aboard, if They'll Fit, as Sept. 11 Jolts Mass Transit, New York Times 12/29 Police Release Driver of Van as a 7th Accident Victim Dies, New York Times 12/29 7th Crash Victim Dies: Survivors angry runaway van's driver wasn't charged, Daily News 12/28 7 Killed in Herald Square by Out-of-Control Van, New York Times 12/20 Review and Comment: Calming & Contradiction, Brooklyn Heights Press and Cobble Hill News 12/10 Car Flips Over Inside Prospect Park, Park Slope Courier 12/3 Technology Desk: IT, Marketplace 11/26 Parking Garages Suffer From Manhattan Security Rules, New York Times 11/12 For the New Mayor, a City's Advice on Challenges That Must Be Faced, New York Times 11/5 Park Advocates Jeer Winter Traffic, Park Slope Courier 10/22 THE ROAD BACK: NYC Bike Riding Up 50% Since Sept. 11, Wall Street Journal 10/15 Downtown commuter woes need fix: Pressure building for new bus lanes; many fear job losses because of PATH, Crain's New York Business 10/5 Trade-Off by Environmentalists on Rebuilding, New York Times 10/1 Cycling in a New World, Bicycle Wire 9/27 Off Limits to Solo Drivers, New York Post 9/27 Transit System Faces Tough Test, Newsday 9/19 Commute Eases, With Mass Transit: Holiday helps trim gridlock, Daily News Donations Wish List Help cycling and walking and get a tax deduction. Donate to T.A. We need: -Pentium II or better
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T.A. Gives "A" Grade to 2001 Cycling Improvements
 500 E-Bulletin Readers Join T.A. and 30 Fellow Groups Hailing "Metrocard Mayor"
In related news, the Straphangers Campaign enlisted 30 groups to sign a letter thanking the mayor for riding the subway and urging him to get City Commissioners to use transit and to reduce parking permits for city employees. City "Car Potatoes" Clog Lower Manhattan
T.A. and other transit and environmental groups continue to strongly support the rule, and remain extremely skeptical of the garage owners assertion that the rule is to blame. One possible venue being explored by the City is using Federal disaster assistance to house the City cars clogging Lower Manhattan in private garages.
Rebuilding Downtown: Two Trains Forward, Thousands of Jobs Back
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Selected articles
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Parking Coming to Union Square
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Constructs Long Awaited Sunset Park Connector
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Check our maps page for links to NYC-area bicycle and transit maps. RIDES AND WALKS Friday, February 1, 10pm.
Central Park Moonlight Ride. Sunday, February 3, 10am. Sunday Frostbite Series #10: Ethnic Foods in Astoria. City Hall. 5BBC and NYCC. Sunday, February 3, 9am. Loop-de-Loop. Central Park Boathouse. Fast and Fabulous. Tuesday, February 5,
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Weekday Cyclists. Saturday, February 9, 11am. Ride to Hartshorne Woods. Navesink Avenue parking lot (New St. in Atlantic Highlands). Fast and Fabulous. Sunday, February 10, 10am. Frostbite Series #11: Flat Rock Brook Nature Preserve. City Hall. 5BBC and NYCC. Sunday, February 10, 11:30am. Staten Island FDR Boardwalk. Meet at S.I. Ferry Terminal in Manhattan. Shorewalkers. Tuesday, February 12, 9am. Ride to Ridgewood, NJ. Central Park Boathouse. The Weekday Cyclists. Want to see more ride listings? Visit our Rides and Walks page.
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Next
week, T.A. will issue "Making The Grade 2001: T.A.'s Fifth Annual Report On
Bicycling in NYC." The report card awards an unprecedented "A"
grade for improvements in the overall cycling environment in 2001. 
The report
highlights the historic importance of the opening of full-time bicycle and
pedestrian paths on all of the East River Bridges and the completion of the
Hudson River Greenway south of 181st Street. These critical achievements were
the biggest missing links in the City's cycling network. While lauding the
improvements, the report card gave a higher, but still mediocre grade, of C+ to
the overall cycling environment. 
Thank
you to the 500 E-Bulletin readers who 
NYC has issued an estimated
110,000 parking permits to City, State and Federal workers. About 76,000 are
restricted to teachers around schools. Some 15,000 are far more generous,
general purpose placards which allow parking almost anywhere at anytime. Of
these, some 5,000 are used in Lower Manhattan. This deluge of parking permits
has clogged downtown with official cars which are seriously slowing the pace of
street reconstructions, creating traffic jams and interfering with
pedestrians. 
It is rumored that City Hall
wants to reduce the number of permits --- at least half of which are for the
private cars of City workers (mainly law enforcement.) If this is true --- and
T.A. hopes it is --- expect a political battle royale as the police and others
dig in to protect their perceived entitlement. Indeed, to City workers, parking
permits are a prime symbol of power and privilege that are zealously guarded.
From a transportation perspective, they are an irrational abuse of scarce public
street space. We urge Mayor Bloomberg to power past the pampered parking
princes, particularly the police.
The parking garage industry is
aggressively lobbying the City to remove rules requiring motorists entering
Manhattan on bridges and tunnels south of 63rd street from 6am to 10am to have
at least two occupants. The
Metropolitan Parking Association, said parking garages in Manhattan have seen
business drop an average of 40% since 9/11, and blame the car-pool
requirement. 
Read T.A.'s quote in the New York
Times article 
The good news is that thanks to
the Daily News' Pete Donohue and the Straphangers Campaign, the WTC Stop of the
E Train opened on Monday, January 28th. Other good news is that the Transit Authority
says it will completely restore 1 train service downtown, and end limited
service uptown, by November. Kudos to "Transit" for their amazing
high-speed rebuilding program.
The bad news is that,
according to the NY Times, three huge companies based in Manhattan -- Morgan
Stanley (which had been the largest tenant in the World Trade Center), Goldman
Sachs & Company, and Marsh & McLennan (whose headquarters were in the
World Trade Center) - are planning huge moves to the suburbs. This will take thousands of jobs out of New
York City. Meyers Mermel, chief executive of Tenantwise.com, a real estate
company, estimates that 23,000 jobs went to the suburbs from downtown after
Sept. 11 and that another 144,000 jobs are in jeopardy in a second wave of
departures. The moves will take vast amounts of money out of the transit-oriented, land-efficient city, and direct it toward fueling additional suburban
sprawl in the Hudson Valley and beyond.
Bike
Rack - Tree Guard Unveiled
Hudson
River Greenway is Back
Manhattan
Bridge: Danger is Around the Corner
Metrocard
Mayor
SI
Right on Red Vetoed
Reclaiming
the Sidewalks
The
Brooklyn Waterfront Greenway: Growing out of the Shadow of the BQE
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