Recent Streetsblog USA posts about Bike/Ped

Pay Phones May Be a Bad Call for City

By Sarah Goodyear | | 14 Comments
An article in today’s New York Times looks at the city’s most prominent — and profitable — form of street furniture, the pay telephone: The phone kiosks generate $62 million in advertising revenue annually — and last year the city got $13.7 million of the take, triple what it pulled in from calls. Over all, […]

Secretary Peters Says Bikes “Are Not Transportation”

By Brad Aaron | | 56 Comments
We’d expect this kind of thing from some people, but not U.S. Secretary of Transportation Mary Peters.  On PBS’ "NewsHour with Jim Lehrer" this week, Peters stated that instead of raising taxes on gasoline to renew the nation’s sagging infrastructure, Congress should examine its spending priorities — including investments in bike paths and trails, which, […]

Weiner on the Environment: Big Talk, Small Stick

By Glenn McAnanama | | 52 Comments
Where’s the beef? Under Rep. Anthony Weiner’s plan, vehicles, like the one above, would not be charged a fee to use New York City’s most heavily congested streets On Monday evening, just hours before the federal government’s announcement that it would give New York City $354.5 million to kick-start Mayor Bloomberg’s congestion pricing plan, Rep. […]
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