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Monday: ‘Bikes in Buildings’ Showdown at City Hall
On Monday afternoon the City Council's transportation committee will take up the Bikes in Buildings Bill, which addresses a major obstacle to bike commuting. The legislation would give people who work in commercial buildings the right to bring their bikes inside the workplace, if they have the consent of their employer. Transportation Alternatives director Paul White calls it "one of the easiest ways to enable much greener travel in New York City." The bill's prospects look promising: Bloomberg reports that it enjoys the active support of the mayor, and most of the City Council is expected to sign on.
December 5, 2008
Brooklyn CBs Open to Prospect Park Road Diet
On Tuesday, Transportation Alternatives made the case for a car-free Prospect Park to the transpo committee of Brooklyn Community Board 7. Reactions ran the gamut from wholehearted support to outright opposition, reports T.A.'s Lindsey Lusher-Shute. Toward the end she unveiled a compromise -- reducing vehicle lanes on the loop drive from two to one -- which piqued the interest of several people and appeared capable of generating broad agreement.
December 5, 2008
CB4 Backs Eighth Avenue Cycle Track
From Caroline Samponaro, Director of Bicycle Advocacy for Transportation Alternatives:
December 4, 2008
We Are the Community Board Cranks We’ve Been Waiting For
If you want to see more of this, and less of this, at the community board level, Transportation Alternatives is making it easier to apply for a spot on your own neighborhood CB.
November 21, 2008
CB4 Committee Supports Eighth Avenue Cycle Track
Last night, the transportation committee of Manhattan Community Board 4 voted 8-2 in support of extending the protected bike lane on Eighth Avenue, now under construction below W. 14th Street, north to 23rd. Wiley Norvell of Transportation Alternatives sends this account.
November 20, 2008
CityRacks Winner: It’s a Standing O
Winners of the CityRacks Design Competition were announced this morning. First place for outdoor rack went to Ian Mahaffy and Maarten De Greeve (Bettlelab) of Copenhagen, whose prototype will be adopted as "the new standard bicycle rack installed on New York City's sidewalks." DOT plans to install nearly 5,000 of these in the next three years.
November 14, 2008
Manhattan Buses Dominate Pokey and Schleppie Awards
Gene Russianoff of the Straphangers Campaign (l) and TA's Paul Steely White unveil this year's honorees
November 12, 2008
TA: Zoning Great for Tomorrow; Bike Access Can Improve Today
From a statement released by Transportation Alternatives in response to this morning's bike parking announcement (emphasis added):
November 10, 2008
Designing NYC Streets for the 21st Century
Earlier this week Transportation Alternatives announced the winners of its "21st Century Street" design competition, selecting three entries from more than a hundred submissions re-imagining the intersection of Fourth Avenue and Ninth Street in Brooklyn.
November 6, 2008
TA Rolls Out CrashStat Improvements
E. 33rd St. and Park Ave. was the city's most dangerous intersection between 1995 and 2005.
October 29, 2008