Recent Streetsblog USA posts about Bike/Ped

Disgruntled Drivers Responsible for UK Letter Bombs?

By Sarah Goodyear | Feb 7, 2007 | 13 Comments

A letter bomb exploded yesterday at the offices of the Drivers and Vehicle Licensing Agency in Swansea, South Wales, injuring a woman. It was the seventh such incident reported at a UK agency linked to traffic enforcement in the past three weeks, and the third in three days, according to an article in the Guardian. […]

Streetfilms: An Interview with Sam Schwartz

By Sarah Goodyear | Feb 2, 2007 | No Comments

Sam Schwartz, aka "Gridlock Sam," is best-known to many New Yorkers through his Daily News column about the city’s quotidian traffic woes. Schwartz is the president and CEO of Sam Schwartz LLC, a traffic planning and engineering firm that has worked on projects including the JFK AirTrain, the IKEA project in Red Hook, Brooklyn, and […]

Making Hell’s Kitchen Less Hellish

By Aaron Naparstek | Jan 10, 2007 | 20 Comments

StreetFilms Ninth Avenue Renaissance Town Hall Meeting Running time: 3:35 Monday night was the first meeting of the Ninth Avenue Renaissance project. About 130 neighborhood stakeholders filled the gym at the Holy Cross School in Midtown to begin a process to transform Ninth Avenue from a dysfunctional, traffic-choked, polluted highway into, what organizer Christine Berthet […]

Holiday Bonus for U.K. Ikea Employees: 9,000 Free Bikes

By Jason Varone | Dec 18, 2006 | 14 Comments

The Independent (UK) reports: Ikea, the Swedish retail chain, showed its green credentials yesterday by giving all 9,000 of its UK workers a free bicycle. The store handed out the £139 fold-up bike and offered a 15 per cent subsidy on public transport at its Christmas breakfast.The bicycle is the store’s second high-profile green gesture […]

Safe Routes to Schools Study Complete

By Glenn McAnanama | Nov 30, 2006 | 4 Comments

Walking to school is a healthy way for many kids to get their daily dose of exercise. Unfortunately many parents are rightfully concerned about their children’s safety on the city’s streets because of aggressive driver and lack of good pedestrian safety infrastructure. Everyday in front of many city schools you see parents dropping kids off in […]

NYPD Has Spent $1.32M to Suppress a Monthly Bike Ride

By Charles Komanoff | Nov 16, 2006 | 18 Comments

Charles Komanoff, flanked by Marquez Claxton and Norman Siegel, at City Hall this morning. Time’s Up took its campaign for safe bicycling into the economic arena this morning with release of a report documenting the Bloomberg administration’s squandering of New Yorkers’ tax dollars in suppressing the Critical Mass bike rides. With the City Hall steps […]

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