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Showing posts with label bad parks. Show all posts
Showing posts with label bad parks. Show all posts
Friday, December 16, 2016

What if the MTA is interested in bringing back the trains?

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I’ve always opposed the proposal to convert the Rockaway Beach Branch of the Long Island Railroad into a bike trail, because I think the lan...
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Sunday, March 29, 2015

NYCHA and the fetishized green space

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Today the Daily News published a hyperbolic " EXCLUSIVE: NYCHA selling off green space to developers! " As one person remarked o...
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Thursday, January 15, 2015

Driving to the walkway

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Among the many crazy things about the new Tappan Zee Bridge, one of the craziest is the way that some environmentalists seem to melt into so...
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Monday, January 5, 2015

The MTA is not interested

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One cornerstone of the arguments for the Queensway rail-trail is that the MTA isn’t interested in restoring passenger rail service. Queensw...
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Monday, November 17, 2014

When bike paths are not transportation

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I've written before about the capacity of bike paths to move large numbers of people. A dedicated bike path performs this function best...
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Saturday, November 8, 2014

Decking the Sunnyside Yards: the history of a fantasy

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Becoming the Yards: 1643: Burger Jorrisen receives the first patent for farmland near the swamps surrounding the Dutch Kills. 1861: The Lo...
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Monday, April 8, 2013

Will "Willets West" relieve Flushing Meadows's parking curse?

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One of the least pleasant things about Flushing Meadows is the sheer amount of parking, as I've helpfully highlighted for you on the Goo...
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Thursday, February 14, 2013

What is the best use for the Flushing River valley?

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I've lost count of all the proposals to build things in the Queens Valley. Here's a map from the Wall Street Journal: In additio...
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Saturday, May 19, 2012

Saving the Manhattan Terminal

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A transit advocate looks at abandoned transit infrastructure and thinks, "Imagine if we reactivated that!" Certain other people (...
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