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ConnDOT officials will target pedestrian safety improvements at the section of Post Road East near the popular Shake Shack restaurant in Westport. | Photo: The Hour Operation 130 Safe Passage aims to address pedestrian safety along New Jersey’s most dangerous road. | Photo: Burlington County Times Since the release of TSTC’s most recent Most Dangerous [...] There were 1,149 vehicle crashes with pedestrians or bicyclists in Albany County between January 1, 2009 and May 31, 2012. | Map: Geocommons.com There were 2,453 vehicle crashes with pedestrians or bicyclists in Westchester County between January 1, 2009 and May 31, 2012. | Map: Geocommons.com From January 1, 2009 through May [...] Cycle track along Prospect Park West. | Photo: Brooklyn Paper In a shock to no sustainable transportation advocate anywhere, a new study from the Harvard School of Public Health shows that the American Association of State Highway and Transportation Officials (AASHTO), the go-to resource for transportation engineering guidelines, holds antiquated views on bicycling facilities. [...] New Jersey State Senator Diane Allen, and Assemblymembers Herb Conaway, Timothy Eustace, Celeste Riley, Scott Rudder, Troy Singleton, Grace Spencer and Connie Wagner, have sponsored legislation that could help make New Jersey safer for walking and biking. New Jersey legislators are steadily advancing bills that would improve pedestrian and bicycle safety in the [...] Flower Street connects Capitol and Farmington Avenues in Hartford. Residents of Hartford’s Frog Hollow neighborhood and cycling advocates have emerged victorious in a long-running dispute with the Connecticut Department of Transportation (ConnDOT). The agency had planned to close Flower Street, a side street that crosses an Amtrak rail line and the planned CTfastrak [...] Citi Bike stations are clustered in Lower Manhattan and parts of northern Brooklyn, but elected officials in other parts of the city are already calling for its expansion. | Map: citibikenyc.com/stations And so it begins… Citi Bike launched less than one week ago, and (as TSTC predicted earlier this month) elected officials who [...] It’s only a matter of time until Citi Bike is seen as just another component in the public transportation system. | Photo: Flickr user Planetgordon.com via Huffington Post While this week’s Citi Bike launch has received a great deal of the attention both on the streets and in the headlines, it seems bike sharing [...] In early measurements, Citi Bike has had slightly more daily trips per bike than Boston or Washington bike share systems did during the earliest stages of their initial rollouts. | Photo: AM New York/Getty New York City’s bike share program is much larger than any other system in the United States, so comparing [...]  New York City Mayor Mike Bloomberg takes the podium at Monday’s Citi Bike launch. | Photo: Ben Rosenblatt New York City’s long-awaited bike-share program, Citi Bike, launched yesterday, and TSTC was there to document the action. (Photos and videos below!) As of 5 p.m. on Monday, 6050 Citi Bike trips had been logged, totalling 13,768 miles. The length of the average trip was just over 20 minutes, and for those keeping score at home, Citi Bike now has 16,463 annual members (and counting). If you think that data is fun, here’s an animated map that uses colored dots to show how full (or empty, if you’re that sort of person) each station was at every 10-minute interval since Citi Bike launched. Even though Citi Bike has only been up and running in New York City for two days, Paul Feiner, Town Supervisor of Greenburgh in Westchester County, New York, is already talking about bringing a bike share system to his community.
Across the United States, the suburbs have often been synonymous with affluence. But a new publication from Brookings titled Confronting Suburban Poverty highlights that “the poor population in America’s suburbs is growing faster than anywhere else in the country, surging 64 percent in the past decade [...] |
 
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