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What: Rally for Pedestrian Safety

When: Sunday, March 4th, 3pm

Where: City Hall

New Yorkers obeying the law, crossing in crosswalks with the light and aware and attentive to their surroundings have been run down and killed by motor vehicles with horrifying regularity in 2007.

What: Campaign Q & A and photo shoot for uncivilservants.org

When: Thursday, March 15th, 11 am

Where: North East corner of City Hall Park – Centre St. and Chambers St.

To save lives, encourage more physical activity, reduce automobile use and create a more sustainable city, New York City must do more to make walking safer and more inviting. Therefore, Transportation Alternatives commends the New York City Council, the Council's Transportation Committee and its Chair, John Liu, for holding an oversight hearing on pedestrian safety.

"Mayor Bloomberg's sustainability plan will make the Big Apple a whole lot greener," says Transportation Alternatives Executive Director Paul Steely White. "The plan shows that the Mayor cares deeply about the future health and prosperity of our City and our planet."

Transportation Alternatives commends the Mayor and his sustainability team on the ambitious agenda outlined today and looks forward to working with his office and City agencies to make the streets more inviting to those who use them most efficiently: walkers, bus riders and bicyclists.

NEW YORK, NY (April 24, 2007) – The Citywide Coalition for Traffic Relief today issued a new report, Debunking the Attack on Congestion Pricing, exposing the flawed study underlying the anti-congestion pricing arguments that are being marshaled by the American Automobile Association, parking garage owners, the Queens Chamber of commerce and a handful of Brooklyn and Queens elected officials.

Transportation Alternatives commends the Mayor on his appointment of Janette Sadik-Khan as the next Commissioner of the NYC DOT. His thoughtful and progressive appointment will usher in an era of cutting edge transportation planning.

Friday, May 18th 8:33am from Fix Cafe in Brooklyn to Bellevue Hospital in Manhattan

This morning, Luci Olewinski, Nurse Practitioner at Bellevue Hospital, won Transportation Alternatives' Bike Month NYC 2007 6th Annual Commuter Race by making it from Fix Cafe on North 11th Street and Bedford Avenue in Brooklyn to Bellevue Hospital in Manhattan in 15 minutes, despite strong headwinds over the bridge. Olewinski beat subway rider Phillip Pond, by 4 minutes and Cab rider James Vincente, by 8 minutes.

Transportation Alternatives applauds the New York State Assembly for holding a hearing on the PlaNYC 2030 initiative today. The transportation component of PlaNYC 2030 provides for critical improvements to bus service, subways, bicycle lanes, commuter rail and the pedestrian environment.

• The supermajority of New Yorkers—especially middle and low income New Yorkers—are transit riders.
• Congestion pricing is by far the most effective way to improve travel for New York's transit-reliant majority.
• In addition to better-quality and lower-cost transit, congestion pricing will return economic, health and quality of life benefits to small businesses and lower-income New Yorkers, who are disproportionately impacted by high volumes of traffic and pollution.