Reducing Automobile Dependence

Road Rage: Transportation Town Hall

Author: 
Ed Litvak
Media Outlet: 
The Lo-Down
Date: 
May 5, 2009

Last night we posted a brief report about City Councilman Alan Gerson's town hall meeting on transportation issues.

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Keeping Tabs on Pedestrian Accidents

Author: 
Dan Rivoli
Media Outlet: 
Our Town
Date: 
November 4, 2009

New Yorkers can find out how many robberies have occurred in their community--even how many times their neighbors have called 311 and get the reason for the complaint.

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Honk, Honk, Aaah

Subtitle: 
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
Author: 
Michael Crowley
Media Outlet: 
New York Magazine
Date: 
May 17, 2009
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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 )
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Slay Rap on Teen Driver

Author: 
Philip Messing
Media Outlet: 
New York Post
Date: 
June 11, 2009

A teen Brooklyn driver was charged with manslaughter yesterday for running over an elderly man at a bus stop, authorities said.

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Part Time Lover - Is The Car Just An Affair?

Author: 
Ian Sacs
Media Outlet: 
Planetizen
Date: 
June 29, 2009
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America's so-called "love affair" with the automobile, although cliché, provides a vivid description of how attached we really are to driving.

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Why, oh why, do so many people drive <3 miles in their car?
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Patrolling Pedicabs

Author: 
Courtney Gross
Media Outlet: 
Gotham Gazette
Date: 
June 29, 2009

The three-wheeled, human-powered pedicab lobby rolled into City Hall this morning for a surprisingly calm hearing on new regulations that would license the industry for the first time.

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Pedicabs Roll Toward Regulation

Author: 
Simon Akam
Media Outlet: 
New York Times Blog
Date: 
June 29, 2009
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Nearly three weeks after a pedicab collided with a yellow taxi at the foot of the Williamsburg Bridge in Brooklyn -- leaving the pedicab driver seriously injured -- the City Council's Consumer Aff

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Theodore Parisienne for The New York Times -- Pedicab regulation was the focus of a City Council hearing after a June 10 accident.

Zipcar Takes the Anti-Urban Route

Author: 
Brad Aaron
Media Outlet: 
StreetsBlog
Date: 
August 3, 2009
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While Zipcar looks to entice drivers to give up vehicle ownership, another pillar of its marketing strategy is that car-sharing is an environmentally friendly service for city dwellers who normally tr

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Photo via PSFK
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Push for SI Ferry Cars

Author: 
Tom Namako
Media Outlet: 
New York Post
Date: 
August 17, 2009

Honk if you love the ferry.

Some Staten Island pols are making a renewed push for the federal government to allow cars on the ferry once again.

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District 39 Candidates: Where Do They Stand on Livable Streets?

Author: 
Ben Fried
Media Outlet: 
StreetsBlog
Date: 
August 19, 2009
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A crowd of about 75 Brooklynites turned out for the Transportation Alternatives City Council candidate debate last night, despite the muggy mid-August heat and un-air-conditioned PS 321 auditorium.

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L-r: Brad Lander, Dave Pechefsky, Gary Reilly, Josh Skaller, and Bob Zuckerman.
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