Sarah Goodyear

While reading the NY Times essay about the woman who drives back and forth across the Brooklyn Bridge the other day, I was reminded of the Tiki Barber ads for the Cadillac Escalade. The spot that premiered during the Super Bowl is a moody, impressionistic montage that shows the former New York Giants running back driving solo through the streets and over the bridges of New York, talking about "seizing opportunities." The tagline is "Life. Liberty. And the Pursuit."

This weekend's City section of the New York Times featured a mind-blowing essay by children's-book writer Sarah Shey about her habit of taking her one-year-old son out for drives in the city -- drives with no destination or purpose in mind, in which she crossed and recrossed the Brooklyn Bridge endless times.

Three Injured by Colliding Cabs in Midtown (Gothamist) Long Island Bus System Embraced by Riders, ‘Orphaned’ by Gov’t (NYT) Council Eyes Taxi Stands in the Four Boroughs (Sun) Pedicab Drivers Take Fight to Public (AMNY) Slow Down, Multitaskers: Don’t Read in Traffic (NYT) Jitney Civil War: UWS Hits Back, Markowitz Unimpressed (Curbed) A Museum-Quality Car … Continued

City: One-way Plan Is DOA (Brooklyn Paper) RELATED: Want to Stop DOT? Make Our Streets Safer (Brooklyn Paper) RELATED: In Defense of A Technocrat (Brooklyn Paper) Fifteen Buildings to Fall Soon, Says Ratner (Daily News) Pedicab Fight Gains Speed (AMNY) Please, Renovate Queens Plaza! (Queens Gazette) LI Woman Gets 4-12 Years in DWI Death (Daily … Continued

Prospect Park West at 8th Street, September 16, 2006, 9:45 am. "Higher vehicle speeds are strongly associated with a greater likelihood of crashes involving pedestrians as well as more serious pedestrian injuries." American Journal of Public Health

This comment from Carolyn Konheim of Community Consulting Services, which appeared on a thread that stemmed from our earlier report about the likely appointment of Michael Horodniceanu (right) as the next NYC DOT Commissioner, provides an interesting counterpoint to the "cars-first" rap he has been tagged with:

Gas Guzzlers Face Charges (Guardian) Gore Warns Congress of ‘Planetary Emergency’ (NYT) More Debate on UncivilServants.org (NYT) Dirty Air Becomes Divisive Issue in Hong Kong Vote (NYT) No Parole Yet for DWI-Slay Cop (NY Post) On-Duty NJ Officer Strikes, Kills Pedestrian (AMNY) Four-Hour Commute for SI Man (AMNY) Likely Bloomberg Focus: Transit Finance (TSTC) Greenway … Continued

Brad Aaron reports:

State Tries to Make LI More Bike-Friendly (Newsday) PlaNYC Gives Climate Change Short Shrift (Voice) Related: Bloomberg’s Sustainability Plan ‘Presidential Posturing’ (Voice) Feds to Patrol LIRR and Metro-North (Daily News) MTA Signs Second Ave. Subway Contract (NY Sun) LIRR Plans for More Rush-Hour Trains (1010 WINS) London’s Twice as Good as NYC on Green Electricity … Continued

"I don't see why people have to pay market rents to live in a neighborhood but the cars should live rent-free. In New York you have expensive housing for people and free parking for cars. You've got your priorities exactly the wrong way around."