T.A. Media Round-Up

[Joseph Ferris]

Here is this week's T.A. Media Round-Up.

T.A. In The Media

Bicycling

America's Top 50 Bike-Friendly Cities: New York City #7

http://www.bicycling.com/ride-maps/featured-rides/7-new-york-city

Bike To Work Day Raises Commuters' Heart Rates In A Good Way

http://www.ny1.com/content/top_stories/161477/bike-to-work-day-raises-commuters--heart-rates-in-a-good-way

The Wheel Deal

http://www.nypost.com/p/news/business/jobs/the_wheel_deal_nirDWrIugElUTnRKwvE3TP

Free Breakfast For Cyclists Tomorrow (Friday) Morning!

http://gothamist.com/2012/05/17/free_breakfast_for_cyclists_tomorro.php

Happy Bike To Work Day, NYC

http://www.streetsblog.org/2012/05/18/happy-bike-to-work-day-nyc/

Drivers Fear Bike-Share Will Replace Parking In Williamsburg And Brooklyn Heights

http://www.brooklynpaper.com/stories/35/21/dtg_bikeparking_2012_05_25_bk.html

Collision Course in NYC

http://nypress.com/collision-course-in-nyc/

Climate Ride Rolls Strong For Clean Transportation And A Healthy Planet

http://switchboard.nrdc.org/blogs/kbenfield/climate_ride_rolls_strong_for.html

Top 10 Cycling Books

http://www.longitudebooks.com/blog/index.php/2012/05/whats-new/top-10-cycling-books/

Public Transit

Mayoral Contenders Talk Transit, Part 1: Tom Allon

http://www.streetsblog.org/2012/05/21/mayoral-contenders-talk-transit-part-1-tom-allon/

Mayoral Contenders Talk Transit, Park 2: Bill de Blasio

http://www.streetsblog.org/2012/05/22/mayoral-contenders-talk-transit-part-2-bill-de-blasio/

Mayoral Contenders Talk Transit, Part 3: John Liu

http://www.streetsblog.org/2012/05/23/mayoral-contenders-talk-transit-part-3-john-liu/

Mayoral Contenders Talk Transit, Part 4; Christine Quinn

http://www.streetsblog.org/2012/05/24/mayoral-contenders-talk-transit-part-4-christine-quinn/

For Whom The Bridge Tolls: Why Not East River Spans

http://www.thevillager.com/?p=4906

Select Bus Service On Webster Ave. Could Feature First Median Bus Lanes And Stops In The City, Speed Up Travel

http://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/bronx/select-bus-service-webster-ave-feature-median-bus-lanes-stops-city-speed-travel-article-1.1084188?localLinksEnabled=false#commentpostform

Street Safety

Bronx Middle Schoolers Get City To Improve Safety At Mt. Eden Intersection

http://www.dnainfo.com/new-york/20120522/morrisania/bronx-middle-schoolers-get-city-improve-safety-at-mt-eden-intersection

No More Excuses: Albany Bill Tells NYPD How To Enforce Careless Driving

http://www.streetsblog.org/2012/05/24/no-more-excuses-albany-bill-tells-nypd-how-to-enforce-careless-driving/

Must Reads

Will CitiBikes Integrate Or Compete With NYC's Transit Network?

http://secondavenuesagas.com/2012/05/21/will-citibikes-integrated-or-compete-with-nycs-transit-network/

Pedaling To Prosperity: Biking Saves U.S. Riders Billions A Year

http://www.forbes.com/sites/tanyamohn/2012/05/20/bicyclists-in-the-united-states-save-at-least-4-6-billion-a-year-by-riding-instead-of-driving-ased-on-friday-to-coincide-with-national-bike-to-work-day-part-of-national-bike-month-which-occurs-each/

Dumb Ideas, But No More Money, From The City Council

http://secondavenuesagas.com/2012/05/24/dumb-ideas-but-no-more-money-from-the-city-council/

Hitting Pedestrians With A Car Still Not Criminal In New York 

http://nymag.com/daily/intel/2012/05/michael-mckean-hit-by-car-nyc-no-criminality-suspected.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+nymag%2Fintel+%28Daily+Intelligencer+-+New+York+Magazine%29&utm_content=Google+Reader

T.A. Issues in the Media

Bicycling

New York City Adding On-Street Bike Parking

http://transportationnation.org/2012/05/17/new-york-city-adding-on-street-bike-parking/ 

Citigroup's Bike Deal Is Big Bargain

http://www.crainsnewyork.com/article/20120518/TRANSPORTATION/120519873

How Will You Use Bike Share? New Trip Planner Lets You Find Out

http://www.streetsblog.org/2012/05/18/how-will-you-use-bike-share-new-trip-planner-lets-you-find-out/

Cyclists: Whose Idea Was It To Put Bike Kiosks on Lafayette Avenue?

http://fort-greene.thelocal.nytimes.com/2012/05/18/cyclists-whose-idea-was-it-to-put-bike-kiosks-on-lafayette-avenue/

Bike to Work Day: Ditch The Car. Pedal. Save $9,000?

http://www.csmonitor.com/Business/2012/0518/Bike-to-Work-Day-Ditch-the-car.-Pedal.-Save-9-000

Friday Is National Ride Your Bike To Work Day

http://abclocal.go.com/wabc/story?section=news/health&id=8665944&rss=rss-wabc-article-8665944

Slope Bike Lane Critics: Put Plaza Street West Cycling Path On The Sidewalk

http://www.brooklynpaper.com/stories/35/20/dtg_plazastreet_2012_05_26_bk.html

Fears Of Bike Rack And Ruin

http://www.nypost.com/p/news/local/fears_of_bike_rack_and_ruin_J1spXi4rLTssu8COuAgQZO?utm_medium=rss&utm_content=Local

Racky-Road! Parking Spot Becomes Bike Slots In Slope

http://www.brooklynpaper.com/stories/35/21/all_gorillaparking_2012_05_25_bk.html

Can A Bike Share Program Succeed In NYC?

http://www.greenpointstar.com/view/full_story/18685312/article-Can-a-bike-share-program-succeed-in-NYC-?instance=lead_story_left_column

The 78th Precinct Pushes To Enforce The Illegal Use of Electric Bicycles

http://parkslope.patch.com/articles/the-78th-precinct-pushes-to-enforce-the-illegal-use-of-electric-bicycles

Braving Double-Parked Parents, MS 51 Students Bike To School In Droves

http://www.streetsblog.org/2012/05/23/braving-double-parked-parents-ms-51-students-bike-to-school-in-droves/

Young Cyclists Compete 

http://www.qgazette.com/news/2012-05-23/Front_Page/Young_Cyclists_Compete.html

More Details Shared About Bike Program

http://www.qchron.com/editions/queenswide/more-details-shared-about-bike-program/article_d4f3d553-4615-5fbc-82b2-70f1b9cbd521.html

Public Transit

Warm Winter Boosts MTA Ridership

http://www.ny1.com/content/top_stories/161558/warm-winter-boosts-mta-ridership

A New Day At The MTA?

http://www.silive.com/opinion/editorials/index.ssf/2012/05/a_new_day_at_the_mta.html

Double Bus Lane And Sidewalk Extensions To Boost East New York Transit Hub

http://www.streetsblog.org/2012/05/18/double-bus-lane-and-sidewalk-extensions-to-boost-east-new-york-transit-hub/

Clashing Underground

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052702303448404577412352030953794.html?mod=googlenews_wsj

MTA Will Remove Trash Cans From More Stations To Reduce Trash

http://www.amny.com/urbanite-1.812039/mta-will-remove-trash-cans-from-more-stations-to-reduce-trash-1.3729264

MTA's East Side Access Project Could Now Cost $8.2B

http://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/mta-east-side-access-project-cost-8-2b-article-1.1082218?localLinksEnabled=false

Hylan Boulevard SBS Will Speed Bus Rides Starting In September

http://www.streetsblog.org/2012/05/21/hylan-boulevard-sbs-will-speed-bus-rides-starting-in-september/

Staten Island To Get Faster Bus Service

http://transportationnation.org/2012/05/21/staten-island-to-get-faster-bus-service/

MTA Head: East Side Access Is Behind, But Second Ave. Subway Isn't

http://www.amny.com/urbanite-1.812039/mta-head-east-side-access-is-behind-but-second-ave-subway-isn-t-1.3736829

Select Bus Service To Roll Out On Staten Island

http://www.dnainfo.com/new-york/20120521/heartland-village/select-bus-service-roll-out-on-staten-island

Parking Slashed By Half In Plan For Barclays Center in Dowtown Brooklyn

http://transportationnation.org/2012/05/23/parking-slashed-by-half-in-plan-for-barclays-center-in-downtown-brooklyn/

MTA Chairman Joseph Lhota Trashes Proposal For Transit Authority To Grade Each Of Its 468 Subway Stations

http://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/mta-chairman-joseph-lhota-trashes-proposal-transit-authority-grade-468-subway-stations-article-1.1083672?localLinksEnabled=false

Subway Stations Should Have Grades, Too: Pol

http://www.amny.com/urbanite-1.812039/subway-stations-should-have-letter-grades-too-pols-1.3736991

What Else Is New? The MTA's Grand Central Project Has Problems

http://www.nydailynews.com/opinion/-article-1.1083495?localLinksEnabled=false

Uptown Transit Riders Fight for 125th Street Select Bus Service

http://www.streetsblog.org/2012/05/24/uptown-transit-riders-fight-for-125th-street-select-bus-service/

Street Safety

Putting The Public Back In Midtown's Privately Owned Public Spaces

http://www.streetsblog.org/2012/05/22/putting-the-public-back-in-midtowns-privately-owned-public-spaces/

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Joseph Ferris
Communications Coordinator
Transportation Alternatives

Phone: 646-873-6030
Mobile: 201-294-3085