Sarah Goodyear

Costs Expand for Digging of New Subway (NYT) As Ridership Increases, Commuter Rail Scrambles for Funds (NYT) Land Deal to Advance Moynihan Station Plan (Gothamist) Teen Gets 1-3 Years in Fatal DWI Crash (AMNY) Former Oil Lobbyist Edited Gov’t Climate Report (NYT) Brooklyn’s BQE Building Offers Right-Lane Views (Curbed) Little Consistency in Bus Safety Standards … Continued

Over at the site UncivilServants.org, the Transportation Alternatives project where readers can post photos of illegally parked cars sporting government-issued parking permits (like the court officers above who are comfortably ensconced in a no-parking zone on Crosby Street), there's a hot thread on whether showing the plate numbers of the vehicles constitutes a potentially dangerous invasion of privacy for police officers and others who are caught in violation. What do Streetsblog readers think?

In the aftermath of last Thursday's CB6 transportation committee meeting on the DOT's proposal to convert Sixth and Seventh Avenues in Park Slope, Brooklyn to one-way arterials, some observers are noting that the motion that came out of the meeting may not accurately reflect the input of the nearly 700 people who came out to oppose the plan. As Norman Oder points out at Atlantic Yards Report, the language voted on by the committee leaves the DOT plenty of leeway.

SUV Maims Brooklyn Woman (NY Post) No Way One-Way Roundup (Gowanus Lounge) Happiness Is a Two-Way Street (NYT) In New Hampshire, Towns Put Climate on Agenda (NYT) Bronx’s Boulevard of Death (Norwood News, 2nd item) Bill Would Curb Big-Rig Parkers (NY Post) Heavily Used Trains and Smart Growth (NARP) Compstat-Type Model to Monitor Railroads and … Continued

Bloomberg Puts Brakes on Pedicab Law (Newsday) Brooklyn Protesters Come Out Against One-Way Plan (NY Post) Long Wait to Fix Times Square Gap (Newsday) Manhattan Commuter Walks Five Miles Each Way (AMNY) Thinking Green on a Local Level on the LES (City Limits) Robert Moses Reconsidered, Again (City Limits) Cop Charged with DWI After Tire-Slash … Continued

DOT Commish Contenders have Vastly Different Visions (NY Sun) No Way One-Way Protests in Park Slope Pick Up Speed (Gowanus Lounge) Robert Moses Lives (Metropolis Mag) Coney Island Demo: What Will the Future Look Like? (Gowanus Lounge) Spitzer Pushes for Bigger Javits Center Expansion (NY Times) All Future Mercedes to Offer Hybrid Option (Wired) Start-Up … Continued

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:

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

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.

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