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Bike Walk Connecticut members rallying in Hartford during Bike Week in May. Bike Walk Connecticut, formerly the Central Connecticut Bicycle Alliance, is hiring its first-ever full-time executive director, another sign of how cycling and pedestrian advocacy has ramped up in the state in recent years. Recently, Bike Walk CT helped advocate for the [...] Between 2006 and 2008, 424 pedestrians and cyclists were injured (in blue) or killed (in red) in the town of Babylon. (Click to view in Google Map format.) The Town of Babylon yesterday adopted a “Sustainable Complete Streets Policy” resolution, which makes the Town the first municipality on Long Island to do so. [...] Montclair and Somerville are New Jersey’s newest Transit Villages, the NJDOT announced last week. The towns are the 21st and 22nd to receive the designation, which allows them to apply for $100,000 land use planning and technical assistance grants through the Transit Village program and gives them priority when applying for other state grants. The [...] Eastchester workers paint sharrows on the stretch of California Rd shown here. Across the tri-state region, communities are embracing initiatives that make their streets safer for bicyclists while costing little. One recent example is the Town of Eastchester, New York. On July 1, Eastchester workers painted sharrows along California Road between New Rochelle [...] The competition entries range from neighborhood-level interventions to downtown plans and regional visions. The Long Island Index recently announced the 23 finalists from its “Build a Better Burb” competition. The competition challenged architects, urban designers, planners, students, visionaries and everyone else interested in shaping the future of Long Island to come up with [...] Americans are paying the lowest gasoline taxes since before the Great Depression. One consequence is deteriorating transportation infrastructure across the nation. From left to right: the gas tax trend over the past 15 years, cracked support columns on the Pulaski Skyway in NJ; NYC's 181st Street subway station, where the roof collapsed in [...] The Route 120 bridge, as seen in April. As noted again and again in MTR, New York State’s budget problems and an infrastructure in disrepair are threatening people’s livelihoods and perhaps even their lives. The latest case of these infrastructure afflictions took place in the Town of New Castle, which encompasses the hamlets [...] The 34th Street Transitway is the most ambitious bus project currently planned by NYCDOT and the MTA. Today USDOT Secretary Ray LaHood and Federal Transit Administrator Peter Rogoff announced the winners of two competitive grant programs totaling $293 million to help communities implement major bus and streetcar improvements. Cities in New York and [...]
One of the best opportunities for community members to speak in favor of the replacement of the Sheridan Expressway in the South Bronx with housing and open space is next week. NYSDOT will host its first “Stakeholders Committee” meeting in two years on July 13 at 6 pm at [...] In this week’s New York magazine, Robert Sullivan takes a look at NYC and the MTA’s plan for Select Bus Service, suggesting that the bus improvements planned for the city in the coming years are “the future of New York.” Taking a test run on the Bx12 Select, which runs on Fordham Road in [...] |
 
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