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Wanted: A New Traffic Boss for New York City
The New York City Department of Transportation is posting a job ad seeking a new Deputy Commissioner of Traffic Operations. That's because Michael Primeggia is retiring. After 30+ years in city government, New York City's chief traffic engineer, a man who referred to the city's streets as "my streets," will work his last day on Friday, February 13. DOT staff threw a party for him on Friday evening.
February 2, 2009
Q&A With Transportation Commissioner Janette Sadik-Khan
Streetsblog interviewed DOT Commissioner Janette Sadik-Khan at 40 Worth St., Monday, June 18. Photo: Brad Aaron
June 20, 2007
DOT: Bergtraum to CUNY, Primeggia to Copenhagen
Department of Transportation First Deputy Commissioner Judith Bergtraum, a top aide to former commissioner Iris Weinshall, is leaving DOT for a job at the City University of New York where Weinshall is now a vice chancellor.
June 12, 2007
CB6 Asks DOT to Find a Final Solution to the “Bicycle Problem”
Community Board 6 was grumpy about the idea of bike lanes on 9th Street.
April 12, 2007
Primeggia’s One-Way Safety Claims Are Based on 1970s Studies
DOT Deputy Commissioner Michael Primeggia on March 15: "I know that two-way streets are less safe."
April 6, 2007
A Community Workshop to Re-envision Grand Army Plaza
All across the city neighborhood groups are coming together to re-envision and plan their own communities. In the last few months we've seen valuable community-planning processes taking place in Hell's Kitchen, the Meatpacking District and, to a certain extent, along Bedford Avenue in Williamsburg, Brooklyn. People aren't waiting around for real estate developers or city agencies to tell them how their neighborhoods should be. They are going out and doing the thinking and planning themselves.
March 29, 2007
Studies Refute DOT’s Claim That One-Way Avenues Are Safer
Prospect Park West at 8th Street, September 16, 2006, 9:45 am. "Higher vehicle speeds are strongly associated with a greater likelihood
of crashes involving pedestrians as well as more serious pedestrian
injuries." American Journal of Public Health
March 22, 2007
Commissioner Weinshall Agrees: Two-Way Streets Calm Traffic
While Michael Primeggia, DOT's Deputy Commissioner for Traffic Operations is trying to sell one-way mini-highways through Park Slope as a pedestrian safety improvement, his boss, DOT Commissioner Iris Weinshall, is hawking the exact opposite. On Thursday, March 1, at the City Council Transportation Committee oversight hearing on the Mayor's Long-Term Planning initiative, Weinshall touted two-way streets as successful traffic calming measure for Downtown Brooklyn. From her lips to your ears:
March 5, 2007
DOT to Propose Radical New Traffic Plan for Park Slope
Park Slope's Fifth Avenue: a pedestrian- and bike-friendly, two-way, neighborhood Main Street.
February 28, 2007
Sources Say…
DOT Commissioner Kate Ascher: "It's not happening. It's not possible. That information is incorrect."
February 22, 2007