Past Successes
Since its creation, Transportation Alternatives has helped achieve goals including:
- Pedestrian and bicycling paths on all East River Bridges for the first time in 50 years
- A complete Hudson River Greenway, ten miles of car-free walking and cycling along the Hudson River
- A promise of a Manhattan Waterfront Greenway, a car-free path circling the entirety of Manhattan
- Year-round "Summer Hours" in Prospect Park plus a further increase in car-free hours in the park
- Year round weekday car-free hours in Central Park, plus the reclamation of three motor vehicle entrances as parkland
- Legal bike access on New York City subways and NJ Transit, including 24/7 access to the NYC subway
- New Manhattan access to the Brooklyn Bridge promenade
- Pedestrian safety improvements on Queens Boulevard
- Pedestrian improvements in Herald Square and Times Square
- The Bronx Safe Routes to School: Pedestrian improvements at 38 Bronx schools
- Creation of NYC DOT citywide Safe Schools Program
- 800 speed humps on neighborhood streets
- Numerous new bike lanes throughout NYC
- Bicycle racks on city streets throughout NYC
- Legal bicycle access to the George Washington Bridge
- Secure bike parking at several midtown garages
- Pedestrian and cyclist access to River Road on the New Jersey Palisades
- Overturn of the 1987 midtown bicycle ban
- Ramped access to the Brooklyn Bridge bicycle/pedestrian path
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