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For First Time, NYC Will Fund Plaza Maintenance in Low-Income Areas
Since it launched nearly eight years ago, DOT's public plaza program has relied on a public-private model: The city funds plaza installation and construction, while local partners pick up the tab for maintenance and operations. This works well in some parts of town but is a more difficult proposition in low-income communities. Now, for the first time, the city budget will fund plaza maintenance in neighborhoods that could use additional help.
June 19, 2015
Transportation Tidbits in This Year’s PlaNYC Check-In
To mark Earth Day on Monday, the de Blasio administration released its first PlaNYC progress report [PDF], the latest annual check-in on the citywide sustainability plan released in 2007.
April 24, 2014
PlaNYC 2.0 Reactions: Rachel Weinberger, UPenn Professor
Streetsblog has been gathering responses to last week's release of PlaNYC 2.0. This is the fourth installment. Read the first, second, and third parts.
April 26, 2011
PlaNYC 2.0 Reactions: Kate Slevin, Tri-State Transportation Campaign
Streetsblog has been gathering responses to yesterday’s release of PlaNYC 2.0. This is the third installment. Read the first and second parts.
April 22, 2011
PlaNYC 2.0 Reactions: Joan Byron, Pratt Center for Community Development
Streetsblog has been gathering responses to yesterday's release of PlaNYC 2.0. This is the second installment. Read the first part here.
April 22, 2011
PlaNYC 2.0 Reactions: Paul Steely White, Transportation Alternatives
Streetsblog has been calling around to transportation advocates and experts, gathering reactions to yesterday's release of the first major update to PlaNYC 2030 since the citywide sustainability initiative was launched four years ago. Here's our first installment, with Transportation Alternatives director Paul Steely -- we'll be posting more reactions later this afternoon.
April 22, 2011
PlaNYC 2.0 Hints at Parking Reform, Touts Bike-Share, Lacks Transpo Focus
Four years after Michael Bloomberg launched New York City's sustainability agenda with congestion pricing as the marquee item, transportation reform is no longer the centerpiece of PlaNYC.
April 21, 2011
Mayor’s Office Highlights “Clean Heat Campaign” in Major PlaNYC Update
Four years after the release of PlaNYC 2030, the citywide sustainability plan that has framed New York's recent transportation reforms, Mayor Bloomberg is in Harlem today announcing a major update in the effort to build a "greener, greater NYC." The law that codified PlaNYC in 2007 scheduled revisions to the plan every four years.
April 21, 2011
To Curb Congestion, Parking Reform Must Be in PlaNYC Update
Three years ago, the Regional Plan Association held a panel on congestion pricing at its annual conference. The title of the discussion was "Making Cars Pay Their Way." At the 2011 conference last Friday, a similar panel on curbing traffic took the more generic title, "Strategies to Manage Congestion."
April 18, 2011
Bragdon: PlaNYC 2.0 Cheaper, Bottom-Up, But May Include Hudson Tunnel
City sustainability chief David Bragdon offered some more hints about what to expect from April's update of PlaNYC this morning. Speaking at a livability conference hosted by NYU's Rudin Center, Bragdon said that the update would eschew large capital projects and feature a larger role for neighborhoods and individuals. In terms of transportation, Bragdon seemed to suggest that a call for a new Hudson River crossing of some kind would be a part of PlaNYC 2.0.
February 3, 2011