a reblog covering NYC’s sustainability scene
Posted in Livable Streets, Transportation on Apr 17th, 2008
(Photo: Courtesy of New York City Streets Renaissance Campaign)
Aaron Neparsak–the original tireless pen behind Streetsblog–has a piece in NY Mag about an inspiration shift from London to Paris after the Congestion Pricing boondoggle. It starts thusly:
With the death of Mayor Bloomberg’s London-style congestion-pricing proposal, New York’s transportation advocates have turned to Paris for inspiration. […]
Posted in Climate Change, Energy, Politics, Transportation on Apr 9th, 2008
We just can’t quit you, CP!
So, um, we know we said we won’t dwell too long on the State Assembly’s totally insane (and “cowardly” and “shameful”) refusal to even put CP to vote, but the media fallout (particularly the Silver-bashing) has been somehow cathartic. So if you’re looking for some sense of right and […]
Posted in Transportation on Apr 8th, 2008
Leave it to Bike Snob NYC to bring a chuckle even in these trying time.
Some alternative fees proposed by the mysterious agent of cycling snobbery:
A Complex Schedule of Surcharges
In addition to the base fee for cars and trucks, I’d like to see the following additional fees tacked on:
Vehicles with vanity plates: $2.00
Vehicles with vanity plates […]
Posted in Climate Change, Energy, Livable Streets, Politics, Transportation on Apr 7th, 2008
And just like that, with hardly a discussion and nary a public vote up in Albany, it is over.
From the Times’ City Room:
Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg’s ambitious dream to remake New York City streets with an elaborate plan for congestion pricing died on Monday, after Democrats refused to put the bill to a […]
Posted in Livable Streets, Politics, Transportation on Apr 1st, 2008
City Council did it. 30-20. Don’t have any links, as I’m currently riding the rails through a Utah canyon, on a cross-country Amtrak trip, researching a piece about the state of the American passenger rail. But many a voicemail let it be known that City Council passed the (slightly amended) measure 30-20. Does that count […]
Posted in Livable Streets, Politics, Transportation on Mar 29th, 2008
From WNYC:
REPORTER: Later, in an exclusive interview with WNYC, Senator Obama said he supports congestion pricing.
OBAMA: I think Mayor Bloomberg’s proposal for congestion pricing is a thoughtful and innovative approach to the problem.
REPOTER: Obama said congestion pricing should not replace federal funding of mass transit.
In related news–you won’t find us joining the giddy speculation about […]
Posted in Livable Streets, Transportation on Mar 29th, 2008
Image from Balboa Observer-Picayune
[Note: No images of GOB on a bicycle were easily found, but who wouldn’t love his fearless face on this segway!]
This is officially our favorite endorsement of CP–Will Arnett talking to NY Mag about his affinity for two wheel transportation (not the segway) and why we need congestion pricing:
Congestion pricing may have […]
Posted in Livable Streets, Politics, Transportation on Mar 28th, 2008
Glenn McAnanama of Upper Green Side sent out this perfectly encapsulated roster of CP support:
The deadline for the city qualifying for over $350 million in additional transit aid from the federal government by passing congestion pricing is quickly approaching. There is a growing consensus that congestion pricing is the right thing to do for the […]
Posted in Health, Livable Streets, Transportation on Mar 24th, 2008
Image from Transportation Alternatives ad [pdf]
I swear, this reblog isn’t all CP all the time. It’s just a particularly live period for this vital bit of public health-mass transit-climate change-energy-local economy-livable streets legislation. Here’s what happening right now.
Streetsblog (of course) had blogger Ben Fried inside the City Council public hearings today.
At the […]
Posted in Climate Change, Livable Streets, Politics, Transportation on Mar 19th, 2008
Photo from Streetsblog.
Well, he might not have said that exactly, but pretty much. And boy have the blogs reacted.
Streetsblog sets the stage:
It’s now or never for congestion pricing, the MTA, and maybe even the city itself, Mayor Michael Bloomberg said this morning.
Speaking before a sold-out crowd at the Battery Park City Ritz-Carlton, Bloomberg and […]