Transportation Alternatives congratulates Mayor Bloomberg on his announcement that the pedestrian and traffic improvements to Times Square and Herald Square will be made permanent.
Release Date:
February 11, 2010
Press Release Contact:
Wiley Norvell
Submitted by wiley on February 11, 2010 - 12:11. categories [
Last spring, some West Side residents came out against the city's plan to ban vehicular traffic on Broadway at Times and Herald Squares, fearing the diversion of southbound traffic onto Ninth Ave.
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A woman passes through a pedestrian plaza in Times Square. (Photo by JB Nicholas)
Submitted by volunteer on January 26, 2010 - 15:18. categories [
Janette Sadik-Khan, the city’s Transportation commissioner, manages to be equal parts Jane Jacobs and Robert Moses. As she prepares to close swaths of Broadway to cars next week, she is igniting a peculiar new culture war—over the role of the automobile in New York. Read more: How Transportation Commissioner Janette Sadik-Khan Manages to Be Equal Parts Jane Jacobs and Robert Moses
Sometime early Sunday morning this Memorial Day weekend, a work crew from the New York City Department of Transportation will arrive in Times Square.
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LEFT: Before; RIGHT: The Broadway Overhaul.
Starting next week, the Times Square portion of Broadway will be closed to traffic. By the fall, it will be converted to a 58,000-square-foot pedestrian plaza.
(Photo: Courtesy of the New York City Department of Transportation )
Submitted by volunteer on November 4, 2009 - 15:53. categories [
**This event is completely full, but if you're interested in attending a future session please email me at volunteer@transalt.org and I will be in touch with our plans for a second round of T.A.
Submitted by elena on January 7, 2009 - 15:24. categories [
It's a golden age for Paul Steely White's advocacy. The 37-year-old executive director of nonprofit Transportation Alternatives talks about biking and public transit in the era of the $4 gallon of gas.
Location: Let's talk about the Summer Streets program. Has it gone as good as you would have hoped?
It’s a golden age for Paul Steely White’s
advocacy. The 37-year-old executive director
of nonprofit Transportation Alternatives talks about
biking and public transit in the era
of the $4 gallon of gas.
Location: Let's talk about the Summer Streets program. Has it gone as good as you would have hoped?
Riding in the new, protected bicycle lane along Ninth Ave. in Chelsea, a model for future protected bike lanes in the city.
The year 2007 may prove to be one of the most important years in the storied history of New York City's development. In a future timeline of urban advances, it might be printed in as big a font and as bold a type as 1811--when the grid system was adopted--or 1904--when the I.R.T. subway opened. The text adjacent to 2007 could say something like "the start of livable streets," or "the bike boom begins," or "congestion pricing kicks off." It may turn out that all of those descriptions may suit 2007. The real question is, in hindsight, will they?
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