Sarah Goodyear

The Fort Greene Association has scored another victory in the fight against abuse of placarded parking, this time with some help from very high places.

According to a more-than-a-little-snarky post on Curbed, the first of Lower Broadway's hotly anticipated bus bulbs has been constructed on Broadway south of Spring Street.

As reported in Sunday's City section of the Times (Times Select required), residents of Hell's Kitchen are concerned that the placement of a double phone booth at the corner of 45th St. and Ninth Ave. may have been a contributing factor in two pedestrian fatalities at that intersection.

Walking the walk in Cambridge

From the Tri-State Transportation Campaign's latest newsletter, three examples of how City Hall contradicts its stated Long-Term Planning and Sustainability goals with policies that foster more automobile dependence:

Buildings Called Key Source of Greenhouse Gases in NYC (NYT) RELATED: Mayor Eyes Greenhouse Gases: Emissions Regs to Come? (NY Sun) RELATED: Report: NY Emits 1% of US Greenhouse Gas (1010 WINS) New City Transit Chief to Start Today (1010 WINS) Suozzi Rides to Shea in Unmarked Cop Car (Newsday) Fourth Ceremony Slated for Second … Continued

General Motors would like you to like them. No, really.

Current configuration

There are 255,794 vehicles registered in Staten Island, and as the borough's population has taken off in the last few years, some of the local parking customs have become increasingly strained. A story published Monday in the Staten Island Advance illuminates just how entitled the people of that borough still feel to free parking -- not just on their own blocks, but directly in front of their homes. It tells the story of an anonymous Great Kills resident who, when a neighbor parked in front of his house, left the following note on the windshield:

Inspired by a poster produced by Portland's Bicycle Transportation Alliance (BTA) in the mid-1990s, this weekend Transportation Alternatives gathered a gaggle of cyclists on 42nd Street in Manhattan to stage New York's own dramatic illustration of how much street space would be saved if everyone riding an automobile were traveling on a bicycle or bus.