Recent Streetsblog USA posts about Manhattan

Days Numbered for City Parking Privileges?

By Brad Aaron | May 16, 2007 | 3 Comments

Michael Bloomberg (front row, fourth from right) with other mayors at the C40 Summit City employees should not have the right to free parking any more than New Yorkers who labor in the private sector, Mayor Bloomberg said Tuesday, hinting that the perk which entices 35 percent of government workers to drive to Manhattan could […]

Bus Bulbs Useless Without Enforcement

By Sarah Goodyear | Apr 27, 2007 | 10 Comments

A story about the new bus bulbs on Lower Broadway in the New York Times highlights the role that enforcement will have to play if DOT’s plan to make the boulevard more bus-friendly is to work. (Bus Rapid Transit, of course, will face similar issues when it rolls out later this year.) The story points […]

Council Overrides Pedicab Veto

By Brad Aaron | Apr 23, 2007 | 17 Comments

NY1 is reporting that the City Council has voted to override Mayor Bloomberg’s veto of its pedicab bill. The pedicab bill caps the number of cabs at 325 and also adds new safety and insurance requirements. The mayor vetoed the bill after meeting with pedicab drivers who were concerned about losing their jobs.

Bus Bulbs Are Blooming

By Sarah Goodyear | Apr 18, 2007 | 15 Comments

According to a more-than-a-little-snarky post on Curbed, the first of Lower Broadway’s hotly anticipated bus bulbs has been constructed on Broadway south of Spring Street. As Streetsblog wrote when the DOT announced the plan to construct the bulbs back in March, this is a noteworthy development for several reasons: The benefits of bus bulbs include […]

Are Phone Booths on Ninth Avenue a Pedestrian Menace?

By Sarah Goodyear | Apr 18, 2007 | No Comments

As reported in Sunday’s City section of the Times (Times Select required), residents of Hell’s Kitchen are concerned that the placement of a double phone booth at the corner of 45th St. and Ninth Ave. may have been a contributing factor in two pedestrian fatalities at that intersection. On May 22, 2000, a tour bus […]

Pedi Politics

By Aaron Naparstek | Apr 17, 2007 | 6 Comments

On Monday, April 23, the day after Earth Day and the Mayor’s Long-Term Sustainability speech, City Council Speaker Christine Quinn plans to hold a decisive vote on Intro. 331-A, a law limiting and restricting pedicabs. Mayor Bloomberg vetoed the bill but rather than going back and trying to improve the legislation by, say, simply increasing […]

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