Today's Fresh Blogs...

• Dying to Get to Work

  Published: July 27, 2007, 1:01 pm

  Tags: Climate Change, Commuting, Air Quality, Transit, Public Health, Energy, Studies Amp 038 Reports

  about six percent of our day commuting to and from work, it is during that time when we receive over half of our exposure" to diesel exhaust, researchers found. CATF is a nonprofit organization dedicated to restoring the environment through scientific research, public education, and legal advocacy. They are responsible for research at New

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• City Backpedals, Says it is Now Making Space for Employee Bikes

  Published: August 1, 2007, 9:29 am

  Tags: Commuting, Transportation Policy, Parking, Manhattan, Bicycling

  stories are similar. Bike-commuting city employees ride to work, same as any other day. But when they get to their buildings they're told they can't come in -- not with their bicycles, at least -- forcing them to leave the bikes outside, in many cases unguarded against theft and the elements. "There was no prior notice,"

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• Saturday Evening in Jackson Heights, Queens: Feel the Pain

  Published: August 3, 2007, 1:49 pm

  Tags: Parking, Livable Streets, Urban Design, Air Quality, Commuting, Transportation Policy, Queens, Street Films, Car Culture, Traffic Enforcement, Pedestrian Safety, Public Health, Quality Of Life, Congestion Pricing

  Fed up with the dysfunction of New York City's streets, people all around the city are picking up video cameras and making their own StreetFilms. The one above is pretty amazing. Unless you like the sound of car horns honking, make sure your volume is turned down before you press "play." This StreetFilm was produced by Will Sweeney

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• The Storm of ‘07 and the Commute of August 8.

  Published: August 8, 2007, 1:33 pm

  Tags: Commuting

  Over on Flickr, Gothamist is gathering some incredible shots of the aftermath of last night's storm and the chaos of this morning's commute. We'd love it if you would share your morning commute story here on Streetsblog. And check out these photos, thanks to Gothamist's remarkable network of contributors...I believe this is Bay Ridge, Brooklyn.

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• More on Rep. Patrick McHenry

  Published: August 13, 2007, 11:46 am

  Tags: Out Of Town, Commuting, Economics, Energy, Car Culture, Bicycling

  Grist's Dave Roberts provides some more background on Rep. Patrick McHenry, the North Carolina Republican Congressman who ridiculed bicycling as a "19th century solution" during debate over the "Renewable Energy and Energy Conservation Tax Act of 2007." The House bill, which passed on Aug. 4, included a $20/month tax break for

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• Weiner on the Environment: Big Talk, Small Stick

  Published: August 15, 2007, 1:17 pm

  Tags: Air Quality, Climate Change, Commuting, Transit, Energy, Congestion Pricing, Bicycling, Streetsblog

  Where's the beef? Under Rep. Anthony Weiner's plan, vehicles, like the one above, would not be charged a fee to use New York City's most heavily congested streets On Monday evening, just hours before the federal government's announcement that it would give New York City $354.5 million to kick-start Mayor Bloomberg's

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• City Still Sending Mixed Signals on Bike Parking

  Published: August 16, 2007, 10:53 am

  Tags: Commuting, Parking, Manhattan, Bicycling, Eyes On The Street

  A tipster sent us these photos of the City's new indoor bicycle parking facility at 280 Broadway. A couple of months ago cyclists who work for the City suddenly found themselves and their bikes turned away from their office buildings, leaving few options aside from locking up to street signs and unprotected outdoor racks. This new facility,

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• Manhattan-Bronx Bike-Ped Link Shut for Three Years

  Published: August 16, 2007, 2:57 pm

  Tags: Commuting, Parks, Manhattan, The Bronx, Bicycling

  Earlier this summer, pedestrians and cyclists in northern Manhattan and the Bronx were surprised to learn that the walkway on the Henry Hudson Bridge, which spans the Harlem River to connect Inwood Hill Park with the neighborhoods of Spuyten Duyvil and Riverdale, would be closed due to construction. For three years. In 2004,

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• PATH bomb threats land Jersey man in federal prison

  Published: August 21, 2007, 6:30 pm

  Tags: Commuting, Hoboken

  A New Jersey man was sentenced today to 30 months in federal prison for calling in three false bomb threats against the Hoboken PATH station last year, according to U.S. Attorney Christopher Christie. Miguel Reyes, 33, a former resident of...

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• Central Park 66th Street Transverse Is Unsafe

  Published: August 22, 2007, 1:45 pm

  Tags: Carnage, Urban Planning, Parks, Commuting, Livable Streets, Upper East Side, Traffic Calming, Bicycling, Public Health, Upper West Side, Issues Amp 038 Campaigns

  A Streetsblog reader brings us an update on the case of the cyclist killed last December in the Central Park Transverse, through information obtained via a Freedom of Information Act request. In the documents sent to Streetsblog, it shows that the motor vehicle "struck the bicyclist as both vehicles attempted to merge into the

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• Web cams for turnpike extension

  Published: August 22, 2007, 6:28 pm

  Tags: Commuting

  Bayonne drivers worried about delays on the Casciano Turnpike Extension Bridge crossing Newark Bay between Exits 14 and 14A can now visit the Turnpike Web site -- and soon the Bayonne city Web site -- to check on traffic...

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• New bus service starts Monday, drawing mixed reviews

  Published: August 22, 2007, 6:24 pm

  Tags: Commuting

  Palisade Avenue residents in Jersey City who suffer a longer commute thanks to the re-routing of Red & Tan Coach USA's route 99S bus will just have to hoof it to the new bus stops on Central Avenue after...

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• Make Your Own Subway Advisory

  Published: August 23, 2007, 4:41 pm

  Tags: Commuting, Transit

  The SUBWAYblogger found a potentially useful new tool for users of Facebook, a social utility that connects people with friends and others who work, study and live around them. The Subway Status application, which was not developed by the MTA, is a user generated subway alert system. Now you can forget about those wet mornings when you

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• Ich bin ein Bicyclist

  Published: August 24, 2007, 12:51 pm

  Tags: Commuting, News, Transportation Policy, Out Of Town, Bicycling

  In a report for CBSnews.com on Berlin, Germany's booming bike culture, Christine Lagorio expresses shock at the sheer number of bikes she saw in Berlin and the way in which motorists and cyclists share the road "gracefully." This, she says, is something she has never experienced in her home town of New York City.

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• Bike & Ped Improvements Slated for Manhattan Bridge Approach

  Published: August 27, 2007, 10:35 am

  Tags: Community Boards, Commuting, Urban Design, Manhattan, Pedestrian Safety, Bicycling

  DOT plans to build a physically-separated two-way bike lane on this one block stretch of Canal Street at the foot of the Manhattan Bridge. The project also includes pedestrian safety fixes.The Manhattan approach to the Manhattan Bridge, where Chinatown and the Lower East Side come together in a jumble, has long presented one of the most confusing

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