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Celebrating a Car-Free Afternoon In Prospect Park
Yesterday was the first day of a car-free evening rush hour on Prospect Park's East Drive. Car-Free Park advocates and Transportation Alternatives members manned the barricades at the Park Circle entrance, reminiscing over more than a dozen years of activism and organizing. That's StreetFilms' Clarence Eckerson holding the "Thank you DOT" sign above. Below, T.A.'s Noah Budnick recommends Flatbush Avenue to the driver of a Lexus SUV.
August 28, 2007
Prospect Park Car Restriction Starts Now
In just a few minutes, Prospect Park goers will celebrate the first afternoon of a car-free East Drive. Transportation Alternatives will be on hand to hand out snacks and ensure motorists obey the new rule.
August 27, 2007
Survey Finds That Buffered Bike Lanes Are Better
A buffered section of Manhattan's 8th Avenue bike lane.
August 24, 2007
Staten Island PlaNYC Panel Tonight
Join Transportation Alternatives and the Citizens Committee for NYC at Everything Goes Book Café in St. George on Staten Island for a screening of Contested Streets, a one-hour documentary about New York's traffic crisis and how congestion pricing can solve it.
August 21, 2007
Cyclists Throwing Selves Under Cars in Brooklyn
The Daily News reports that more cyclists are getting hit by cars in Williamsburg and Greenpoint -- an increase of 38 percent and 188 percent, respectively, over last year.
August 20, 2007
Tonight: Traffic-Calming Mural Preview & Fundraiser
In the Gowanus section of Brooklyn, a group of teenagers is transforming a drab, cinder block wall into a three-story mural to memorialize three children killed on dangerous Third Avenue and to remind motorists to drive safely. The mural is being organized by Transportation Alternatives and Groundswell Community Mural Project and painted under the guidance of acclaimed social activist artists Christopher Cardinale and Nicole Schulman.
August 13, 2007
Thank You for the Extra Car-Free Hour, And…
DOT Commissioner Janette Sadik-Khan celebrates the extra Car-Free hour in Central Park with members of Upper Green Side and Transportation Alternatives
August 13, 2007
Brodsky Killed Congestion Pricing But We Hurt His Feelings
State Assembly Member Richard Brodsky is displeased by the suggestion that his opposition to New York City's congestion pricing plan had anything to do with the fact that he has accepted more money from parking industry interests than any other State Assembly Member and that his district houses the wealthiest Manhattan car commuters in New York State.
July 17, 2007
Brodsky Attacks Critics of His Congestion Pricing Study
On the Brian Lehrer show this morning, Assembly Member Richard Brodsky brushed off reports of his parking industry campaign contributions and TA, RPA and Streetsblog's substantive criticism of his congestion pricing study as a "personal attack."
July 11, 2007