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StreetFilms: Interview with Parking Guru Donald Shoup
"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."
March 20, 2007
Mayor Bloomberg at the Crossroads: Who Will Run DOT?
With DOT Commissioner Iris Weinshall set to depart city government in three weeks, sources say that Mayor Michael Bloomberg is close to announcing her replacement. The Mayor's choice will have a profound impact on day-to-day neighborhood life as well as the City of New York's long-term future. Though the DOT commissioner job search has barely been covered by the local press, this may very well be one of the most important decisions of the last 1,000 days of the Bloomberg Administration.
March 20, 2007
Park Slope says: “One Way? No Way.” CB6 says: “Let’s Study It.”
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.
March 19, 2007
Doctoroff Sets Stage for Something Bold, Creative & Expensive
Yesterday, Deputy Mayor Dan Doctoroff and MTA President Lee Sander delivered a pair of one-two speeches at the annual meeting of the New York Metropolitan Transportation Council. Sadly, the report I wrote up yesterday afternoon was eaten by my blog software. It was really good too. Much more entertaining than this one. What are you gonna do?
March 16, 2007
Coverage of Last Night’s Park Slope Meeting
Big Crowd of Slopers Turn Out to Jeer One-Way Proposal (Gowanus Lounge) 400+ Slopers Deride DOT Plans for Sixth and Seventh Avenues (Yards Report) Slope Weighs One-Way Byways (Voice) Board votes down one-way proposal (Brooklyn Paper) Jonathan Barkey photos
March 16, 2007
DOT’s Park Slope One-Way Presentation
Above is a bootlegged copy of DOT Deputy Commissioner Michael Primeggia's Park Slope one-way traffic presentation. Though the plan is supposedly all about improving pedestrian safety, you can see for yourself that it is almost entirely concerned with the movement and flow of motor vehicles and the calculation of "vehicular level of service."
March 16, 2007
Brooklyn to City Hall: Give us Planning Not Traffic Engineering
Last night the transportation committee of Community Board 6 fully and unequivocally rejected the Department of Transportation's proposal to transform Park Slope, Brooklyn's Sixth and Seventh Avenues into one-way arterials.
March 16, 2007
The Power of Parking Policy
This is the third in a three-part series on New York City parking policy.Part 1: The New York City Parking Boom Part 2: Parking: If You Build it They Will Come... in Their Cars
March 15, 2007