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Business Owners Hope Upcoming MTA Study Will Help Save Kew Gardens Bridge – Kew Gardens…
Nathalie Reid (second from left), who owns Thyme Natural Market, and her employees, hope the LIRR bridge won't be demolished. View Full Caption DNAinfo/Ewa Kern-Jedrychowska…
Bus Stop Design In The St. Louis Region De-Prioritizes Transit – UrbanReview
Last month I posted about how St. Louis Does the Opposite of the National Association of City Transportation Officials (NACTO), this is the first example: bus stops. Transit is returning to its central place in the life of cities.…
Councilman Wants Real-Time Bus Arrivals Displayed On LinkNYC Kiosks – Park Slope – New…
Councilman Brad Lander is calling on the city to partner with LinkNYC and the MTA to add real-time bus data to kiosks for those without the convenience of a bus countdown clock. View…
Lighthouse Sculpture to be Demolished and Replaced Over Safety Concerns – St. George –…
The city plans to demolish the Siah Armajani Lighthouse and Bridge and replace it with a new artwork over safety concerns. View Full Caption DNAinfo/Nicholas Rizzi…
Speak Up for a Walkable, Transit-Friendly Quebec Street – Streetsblog Denver
The Hancock administration’s streets department plans to widen Quebec Street between 13th and 26th avenues in order to shove more cars through the residential neighborhood faster. The project design is not final, and neither is…
Cuomo Calls for Probe After Con Ed Outage Snarls Weekend Subways – Red Hook – New York
RED HOOK — Gov. Andrew Cuomo called for a state investigation into a power surge at a Con Edison substation in Red Hook that caused extensive train delays and power outages at a public housing…
UN General Assembly to Snarl Midtown Traffic With Street Closures Next Week – Midtown East…
A view of First Avenue, near 47th Street. View Full Caption DNAinfo/Heather Holland MIDTOWN — Drivers are in store for extensive street…
As Transit Expands in Los Angeles, Will Walkability Follow? – Streetsblog USA
Over the past 50 years, L.A. has grown up. Between 1960 and 2014, the city added more than 900,000 residents on land that was already at least partially developed, outpacing every other city in the country. And that growth has been…
One Family’s Bureaucratic Ordeal to Get Speed Bumps On Their Residential Street – Streetsblog Denver
Christina Alderfer and Zach Bishop live on a residential street in Cherry Hills Village. They have two sons, ages 9 and 6. Naturally, they would like to keep their kids safe from traffic. But drivers don’t always care. “We’re…
How Dangerous Is the Driving Around Your Kids’ School? – Streetsblog USA
Just how bad are the drivers that zoom past your children’s school while they’re walking to class? A new map from the driving behavior analytics company Zendrive can give you a better read. The Zendrive mobile app tracks driver…