Parking Permit Abusers Being Cleared from Chinatown?
A Chinatown tipster sent along these remarkable pictures yesterday of what seems to be an effort to cut down on placarded vehicles clogging the neighborhood's streets:
March 13, 2007
Today’s Headlines
Finding a Parking Space (Gotham Gazette) Parking Permits in Play in Brooklyn? (NY Sun) City Trying to Fix SI Freight-Rail Bridge (NYT) Court Hears Case Against Red-Light Cameras (NPR) Maximum Sentence in LI Road Rage Case (Newsday) Off-Duty Cop Arrested for Fleeing Crash (NY Post) Comptroller Thompson on MTA Contracts (Metro) White Deer Vs. Ethanol … Continued
March 13, 2007
Report from Atlanta: Don’t Walk This Way
I can't get behind Prevention Magazine's ranking of New York as 39th among the nation's most walkable cities. But after spending three days in Atlanta for a conference recently, I have no problem understanding why it rates 86th.
March 9, 2007
Today’s Headlines
New York Only 39th Most Walkable US City, Says Mag (CNN, Prevention) Park Slope Unites Against One-Way Conversions (Brooklyn Paper) Bloomberg in Miami Looking at Bus Rapid Transit (NY1) Victim’s Father Questions DWI Penalties (Newsday) Review: “The Suburbanization of New York” (City Limits) City EDC to Spend $100M on Yards Land (Daily News) Taxi Workers … Continued
March 9, 2007
Feds Withhold Fatal-Accident Info from Public
An article in the LA Times (reg required) details how the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration has systematically withheld information on fatal accidents from the public, even going so far as to deny Freedom of Information Act requests from researchers.
March 8, 2007
Today’s Headlines
Spitzer Vows to Derail MTA Fare Hike (Metro) No Zipcars in Clinton Hill, but Williamsburg Now Has Them (Gowanus Lounge) Leventer Out at Brooklyn Bridge Park (NY Post) Property Owner Wins One Against Ratner (NY Sun) Gov’t Officials in Arctic Told to Keep Mum on Climate Change? (NYT) Bronx Borough Prez Touts Green Roofs (Daily … Continued
March 8, 2007
The Greening of the Times
Today's New York Times has an entire section on "The Business of Being Green" (Times Select), which includes articles on economies of scale in alternative energy, carbon-offset shopping, the possibly endangered practice of truck idling, Danish wind farms, and environmental litigation.
March 7, 2007
Today’s Headlines
MTA Fare Hike in 2008 “A Real Possibility” (Daily News) She Commutes 200 Blocks a Day by Bike (AMNY) Jackson Heightsers Protest Heavy Traffic on Roosevelt Ave. (Daily News) Taxi Drivers Threaten Strike Over GPS (Metro) Fire Dept Nixes Subway Radio System (NYT) Tappan Zee Plan Still Omits High Rider Option (TSTC) Off-Limits Areas of … Continued
March 7, 2007
StreetFilms: “Something Has to Be Done”
Here are some highlights from Sunday's rally for pedestrian safety. In the words of Audrey Anderson, whose 14-year-old son, Andre, was killed by an SUV while he was riding his bike: "Drivers who kill and are not apparently drunk walk away from crash sites as free as the birds in the air. How can this be, we all must ask?"
March 6, 2007
Today’s Headlines
Mayor Bloomberg: Add Traffic Cams (Daily News) Carmakers Unveil Greener Cars in Euro Show (BBC) U.S. “Stuck in Reverse” on Fuel Economy (MSNBC) Global Impact of Asia’s Pollution (BBC) Thai Activists Spur Cleaner Air in Bangkok (NYT) US Projects 19 Percent Increase in Emissions by 2020 (Houston Chronicle) Children Losing Sleep Over Global Warming (Scotsman.com) … Continued
March 6, 2007