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TRANSPORTATION 127 West 26th Street, Suite 1002 New York, NY 10001 ALTERNATIVES 212 629-8080 transalt.org 2012-2013 ANNUAL REPORT TRANSPORTATION ALTERNATIVES’ MISSION 1 Welcome

IS TO RECLAIM 2 Letter from a Founder

NEW YORK CITY’S 3 Letter from the Executive Director STREETS FROM 5 The New New Yorker THE AUTOMOBILE, 6 How Did T.A. Get Here? Better Buses 8 The Transportation Alternatives Index AND TO ADVOCATE 11 Building Complete Streets FOR BICYCLING, Short Stories WALKING AND 14 How Did T.A. Get Here? A Network of Bike Lanes PUBLIC TRANSIT 17 Local Streets & Public Access Short Stories

AS THE BEST 20 How Did T.A. Get Here? Safe Street Interventions

TRANSPORTATION 22 Power & Public Policy Short Stories ALTERNATIVES. 26 How Did T.A. Get Here? Car-Free Spaces

29 100,000 Strong: The T.A. Community

30 Powered by People

31 Financial Statements

32 Donors

In 1973, a small group of concerned New Yorkers founded Transportation Alternatives to reclaim streets from automobiles. Forty years later, that mission does not waver. The few who founded Transportation Alternatives recruited and multiplied, and today, T.A.’s tent of supporters is packed with New Yorkers, effective and impassioned. Their zeal buoys every T.A. campaign and their effect is found in New York City’s revolutionized geography. From grand public spaces to local bike lanes, T.A.'s supporters pave the way to remarkable changes in New York City’s transportation infrastructure and transform New Yorkers’ understanding of bicycling, walking and public transit.

Every day, Transportation Alternatives works adventure every year, touring the New York City with a network of 100,000 New Yorkers who streets T.A. activism has transformed while regularly take action, birddog public officials and generating more than $400,000 in support of testify to the consequence of T.A.’s mission. Each T.A.’s work. week, T.A. organizes local meetings, protests, In honor of 2013, Transportation Alternatives’ rallies, petition drives, community gatherings 40th anniversary year, please enjoy a celebratory and on-street actions to amplify those 100,000 look back on four decades of activism. Timelines voices. By the power of these people and a track (on pages 6, 14, 20 and 26) chronicle just a few of record of transformative change, T.A. sways the ways T.A. advocacy has changed New York New York City’s most influential decision- City and inspired the nation. Transportation makers. Alternatives' 2012-2013 Annual Report delves T.A. is a membership organization supported into a forty year history of groundbreaking by more than 10,000 dues-paying members and research, innovative community organizing and scores of foundations. T.A.'s five annual bike transformative activism that continues to re- tours – the Tour de , Tour de , imagine New York City streets. Tour de Bronx, Tour de and the Turn the page to start a tour of this year’s NYC Century Bike Tour – which are boosted successes, and a special look back at 40 years by a wealth of national sponsors, take more of change… than 15,000 New Yorkers on an unforgettable

transportation alternatives' 2012-2013 annual report 1 letter FROM A FOUNDER letter FROM THE EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR

Every week, I find a lively message from York Automobile Show. It took a cow costume, a pedestrian barricade humble T.A. beginnings feel as far away as the Transportation Alternatives in my e-mail in- In 1973, Rivvy Berkman, Charlie McCorkell and an unpaid internship for me to find cows of Montana. box, summarizing the most recent changes on (owner of the chain of Bicycle Habitat bike Transportation Alternatives. The following pages skim 40 years of the streets and rallying members to help achieve shops) and Barry Benepe (founder of the For a young man fresh out of the University history and four decades of reclaimed streets, the next goal. In 1973, when I helped T.A. get Greenmarket farmers’ markets) re-imagined of Montana, as I was in 1997, New York alongside our most recent, most effective started, the notion that New York could be Action Against Automobiles under the more City streets appeared to be a grid of infinite year. When I lay it all out on the table, certain saner and safer if people used the streets mostly positive banner, “Transportation Alternatives.” potential. And I poured all my aspirations themes appear: T.A.’s objectives are loftier, our for walking or bicycling rather than driving cars Rivvy became T.A.’s first director and raised into an unpaid internship at the Institute for blueprints for new street innovations are more was as far from most people’s imaginations as money to hire a small staff. The first public Transportation and Development Policy, holistic, and our little tent of local activists has the possibility of receiving electronic messages T.A. action was a “Ride & Rally for a New York which luckily shared office space with a local gotten much, much larger. on a screen at home. What is now a common Bicycle Lane Network.” Red Grooms illustrated activist organization called Transportation When I was a young activist, I saw a point of view was once the opinion of only a few the leaflet with a cartoon of delightfully daffy Alternatives. pedestrian barricade as a barrier to a better life dreamers. cyclists and Pete Seeger came to sing. Four On occasional late nights at the office, I and 12 extra inches of bike lane as the secret Among these dreamers in the 1950s were hundred cyclists showed up at Central Park for would stay to help T.A. organize their actions. to success. If I was naive then, not much the Greenwich Villagers who successfully a ride to Washington Square. We convinced For my first foray into T.A. activism, I donned has changed. Simply put, at Transportation stopped Robert Moses’ plan to bisect a New York Times reporter to join us. In T.A.’s a cow costume and with a herd of others Alternatives, our activism is about quality of Washington Square Park with a highway. first mention in the Times, we were, “fresh air protested pedestrian barricades that had been life. This was a forerunner of nationwide protests enthusiasts,” who, in replacing the cars on the recently installed in Midtown . When we look past safety or necessity, against the destructive interstates dividing street, created, “a momentary hush of traffic “Don’t fence us in,” we mooed. And at some public space to walk and bike is a simple, joyful American downtowns. T.A.’s roots are in these noise,” on Fifth Avenue. point, I looked at the anarchic, eye-catching postscript to an otherwise average day. An struggles, but also in the protest movements The next year we repeated the scene we’d created and thought: I found my efficient bus means a mother spends more of the 1960s. While fighting for civil rights and demonstration, with the late Ed Koch, then tribe. These are my people, T.A. people! time with her kids. Public bike share lets an demonstrating against the war in Vietnam, a congressman, riding with us. Jane Jacobs, Life in Montana had taught me a fond old man revisit the pursuits of his youth. A city some activists also saw inequities being built living in Toronto, wrote to say how glad she was familiarity of cows, but my passion for direct block becomes a neighborhood when a Play into their own city. In New York, where most that bicycle demonstrations were happening. action came from someplace else. That Street is in full swing. Those small moments of people get around on subways or on foot, an T.A. eventually became more than that, not passion found a compatriot in Transportation happiness, shared by millions of New Yorkers, excess of public money was devoted to adding only an activist group and a megaphone for its Alternatives, and after that first action, I was are why I am convinced we have the right idea. convenience for cars. members’ concerns, but also a serious analyst yoked. I don’t know what will happen in the next In 1965, the Lower Manhattan Expressway, of city transportation, a watchdog, author of Seven years later, I took over as T.A.’s 40 years (or even where in the office we're which would have thrust 10 elevated lanes landmark studies and voice at the table for the Executive Director. Transportation storing those cow costumes) but there’s one through SoHo, was in hot debate. Jane Jacobs, city’s biggest transportation decisions. Alternatives then boasted a history of civil prediction I’m pretty confident in: Right now, who had recently published The Death and Life of In the beginning, T.A. was on the fringes of disobedience and absolute effectiveness, there are 100,000 New Yorkers who are the Great American Cities, led the opposition against the political map. It took nearly four decades having radically rewritten City policy over the heart and soul of Transportation Alternatives, Robert Moses at the height of his power. Jacobs for T.A.’s values to enter the mainstream, but years. T.A. was the stuff of legend, and I’m and the oomph behind our every fight for a won: Mayor Lindsay scuttled the highway in the ideals of the former fringe group can now sure I was intimidated at the time, but looking better way. Next year, there’s going to be even 1969. be seen in the city’s bikes lanes and pedestrian back, all I remember is how rewarding it felt to more of them – a lot more. During this period, a precursor of T.A. plazas. There is far more to be done, but what change New York City for the better. demonstrated at the General Motors Building has been accomplished already, in pavement One of my first big victories was pressuring Paul Steely White is an advocate for livable streets under the banner, “Ban Automobiles from and in public perception, is remarkable. the City to increase the width of the 6th and sustainable transportation, and the 2011 Manhattan!” In 1972, I published an article Avenue bike lane from four feet to five feet. recipient of the Rockefeller Foundation’s Jane in the Village Voice, reporting on bicycle David Gurin became a Deputy Commissioner of Imagining that 12 inch win in the face of what Jacobs Medal. Before becoming Transportation demonstrations in Europe and calling for the New York City Department of Transportation we accomplished this year – speed camera Alternatives’ Executive Director in 2004, Paul similar “eco-tactics” in New York. The result, in the Koch Administration, and later a legislation passed, Citi Bike launched, crash served as Regional Director for the Institute for “Action Against Automobiles,” organized a Commissioner of Planning in Toronto. He has investigations expanded and 20 mph zones Transportation and Development Policy. few hundred cyclists to ride past the New now returned to his native Brooklyn. installed across the city, to name a few – my

40 YEARS OF EXTRAORDINARY LEADERSHIP Rivvy Berkman, Executive Director 1973 to 1975 Janet Weinberg, Executive Director 1981 to 1984 Ann Sullivan, President 1992 to 1993 John Kaehny, Executive Director 1994 to 2004 Charlie McCorkell, Executive Director 1975 to 1979 Gail Boorstein, Executive Director 1986 to 1987 Larry Wood, President 1993 to 1994 Paul Steely White, Executive Director 2004 to present Laurence Reilly, Executive Director 1979 to 1980 Charles Komanoff, President 1986 to 1992 Jon Orcutt, Executive Director 1989 to 1994 2 3 When Transportation Alternatives printed its first stack of leaflets 40 years ago, bicycling was an act of defiance in a country obsessed with expanding interstates. Cities all over America busied themselves paving highways through historic neighborhoods under the banner of “urban renewal.” In New York, Robert Moses' myopic motor vehicle vision still ruled the day. The reigning idea of progress consisted of adding another lane to the highway at the expense of New York City’s street life and history.

Appalled by rampant highway construction and crumbling city Transportation Alternatives provided the tools – better buses, neighborhoods, T.A. was founded in 1973, in the same breath safe and accessible bicycling, walkable neighborhoods – to as Earth Day, the Clean Air Act, the Clean Water Act, and with make Robert Moses’ most machinated transportation projects Joni Mitchell still lamenting in America’s ear, “You don’t know less relevant than ever before. what you’ve got till it’s gone, they paved paradise and put For forty years, T.A. swapped cogs and wrenched the up a parking lot.” T.A.’s founders – inspired by community machinery of New York City’s transportation networks until struggles against Robert Moses and amped to fight the the disparate parts worked together. Now, buses as efficient as dominant paradigm of expanding highways and paving parking subways stand in where there’s no route underground. Grand, lots – had a vision: New York City built for people, not cars, spacious avenues disperse their widths evenly between users, with an abundance of clean air, space to play, room to so New Yorkers on foot, on bike and on bus each have their breathe. own that’s protected, efficient and methodical, and local Forty years later, New York City is more likely to ditch businesses still receive their daily deliveries on time. And along the parking lot and replace it with a little stretch of paradise. with T.A., the people of New York City have evolved. Protected bike lanes ribbon up and down major avenues, a On the renewed streets of New York City, a new breed bike share system allows anyone to access a ride and bicycling of New Yorker appears; on bus, on bike, on bus again; their is as commonplace as recycling. It’s a sea change for New York: MetroCard as worn as their sneakers, with a Citi Bike key fob green spaces replace gridlock, New Yorkers breathe welcome, alongside the taxi fare in their pocket. This New York City clean-aired relief. resident does not singularly bike or walk or ride the subway, But New York City’s transportation blueprint did not turn but carves a logical path from A to B, linking transit modes like around in isolation. As cities repopulate nationwide, rising puzzle pieces until their unique map is complete. For the new tides and extreme weather add urgency to environmental New Yorker, transportation is not a trait, it’s a choice. concerns. Young Americans choose to drive less or not at all. The protected bike lane provides a safe haven for the first- How individuals think about getting from A to B is shifting. In time Citi Bike rider. The dedicated bus lane brings the Select no place are any of those factors more prominent than in New Bus Service commuter home to their family faster. The public York City. plaza provides respite for an older New Yorker. These simple New York City’s economic center is no longer a Midtown innovations, which began as Transportation Alternatives’ Manhattan bull’s-eye. Now, centers of industry grow in proposals, do more than dedicate pieces of pavement to a pockets in all five boroughs. All commutes don’t end in the select population. The changes T.A. wrought in the streetscape central business district. Residential populations are shifting created a new New Yorker, and now T.A. has built a brand of as they grow. These demographic plate tectonics are boosting advocacy to cater to them. From here on in, T.A. is building bicycle ridership and public transit use to all-time highs. Car every street to every need, so New Yorkers have a choice, use is shifting too, and car owners are using their vehicles less. every time.

4 transportation alternatives' 2012-2013 annual report 5 HOW DID T.A. GET HERE? Before Transportation Alternatives slow, inefficient and traffic-clogged. routes is largely fiscally impossible. buses and redesigned routes. Now, New BETTER challenged the status quo, the idea of Yet on-street public transportation By envisioning exactly how much room York City’s bus system is more modern, improving busing in New York City was is a necessity in a city where car- New York City’s bus system could grow more functional and more useful than BUSES considered a lost cause. The 57-year-old ownership is scant, populations are and understanding the absolute need ever before, connecting more New transportation system was notoriously shifting and adding new underground for buses that served New Yorkers’ Yorkers to where they need to go. daily lives, T.A. pushed for 21st century

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Peñalosa first used to 2011 increase bus efficiency In the first year, travel in Colombia was tailored times on the M15 Bus – a to New York City streets longtime Pokey Award as "." winner – improve by 2008 as much as 18 percent. The first Select Bus Ridership increases Service route is nine percent. introduced in . 2013 ___ In the first year, travel In the wake of Hurricane After T.A. activists collect times drop 20 percent and Sandy, Governor Cuomo’s and deliver more than ridership increases seven official commission on the 2,500 handwritten letters percent. Today, Select super storm notes that demanding Complete City, a comprehensive Bus Service is improving 2001 bus efficiency by as T.A. launches the explanation of how dedicated bus lanes, much as 20 percent in first-ever campaign to Manhattan, the Bronx and improve notoriously bus lane enforcement cameras and off-board Staten Island, and coming slow and inefficient bus to Brooklyn in 2013. service in New York City, fare collection would and with the generous ease New York City’s 2010 support of the J.M. Kaplan bus problems. T.A. activists help Fund, points New York 2004 New York City bridge City buses toward a In response to T.A.’s the Bus Rapid Transit more modern future. proposal that a Bus knowledge gap by 2002 Rapid Transit system connecting the Institute could improve efficiency for Transportation and The first ever “Pokey Development Policy to Award” is bestowed by and increase ridership on New York City buses, City and State officials. Street improvements, T.A. and the Straphangers modern busing systems T.A. activists persuade With T.A. and a coalition including Select Bus Campaign on the M96 Bus, like Select Bus Service State elected officials of environmental, Service, for Manhattan’s the city’s slowest. The were a key part of the and City commissioners transportation and 1st and 2nd avenues, award ceremony becomes City’s rapid recovery in to convene for an official good government construction begins on a yearly, tuxedoed the days following the discussion on how to activists, the Institute dedicated terracotta tradition to draw attention storm, and recommended bring Bus Rapid Transit for Transportation and bus lanes, bus lane to the least effective an increased investment to the M15 Bus. Development Policy enforcement cameras and buses in New York City. in high-quality surface develops technical advice off-board fare collection ___ 2006 transportation to prepare that helps tailor Bus Rapid for the avenues’ M15 Bus. T.A. and the Straphangers T.A. hosts world- Transit to New York City. for future storms. renowned Bus Rapid Campaign publish Bus ___ Rapid Transit for New York Transit pioneer Enrique Peñalosa in New York. T.A. activists send T.A. activists introduce thousands of letters Peñalosa to City to the New York State commissioners and Legislature demanding elected officials to discuss automated bus lane the benefits of dedicated enforcement cameras bus lanes, bus lane to ease congestion enforcement cameras and and reduce travel off-board fare collection. times. A bill allowing Thanks to a select group bus lane enforcement of T.A. donors who cameras in New York financed his visit, the Bus City passes soon after. Rapid Transit system that

6 transportation alternatives' 2012-2013 annual report 7 14,101 100 Number of people who watched Number of applications for Intersection Follies, the first Neighborhood Slow Zones in the educational YouTube video by first year of the program. T.A.’s Bike Ambassador field team. +100 Percent change in number of New Yorkers demanding the speed limit be lowered in their neighborhood since T.A. initiated the Neighborhood Slow Zone 3 10,000 program. Number of times the average Anticipated number of Citi Bike amount of people injured in New bicycles in New York City’s new York City traffic each year could bike share system, the nation’s fill Madison Square Garden. largest, once phase one is -58 completed. Percentage change in the number 4.29 billion +50 1,600 +28 3 of injuries caused by traffic on Percentage change in the size of Number of handwritten Percent change in T.A.’s network Manhattan's 8th and 9th avenues Average yearly cost of traffic T.A.'s Bike Ambassador field team letters collected in support of of online action-takers since Number of languages the video after a protected bike lane and crashes to the New York City in anticipation of the increase in transforming Manhattan’s 5th 2011. was translated into. pedestrian islands were installed economy, in dollars. bicycling after Citi Bike's launch. and 6th avenues into Complete there. Streets since September 2012. 1 in 3 10,000 200 15 Minimum number of bicycles Chance that a New Yorker 1 Approximate square footage of a Number of different locations the +130 valet parked by T.A.’s Bike Valet traveling on Brooklyn’s Bergen Average number of pedestrians single New York City car parking spot. Bike Ambassadors do outreach in Percent change in the number service in 2012. Street during morning rush hour struck by a car every hour on each week. of bicyclists on the is riding a bicycle, according to New York City streets. bridges following Hurricane mode counts conducted by T.A.’s 8 Sandy. 13,975 +75 Brooklyn Activist Committee. Number of bike parking spaces Minimum number of online Percentage change in number of 3 in 5 that could fit in that car parking actions taken by T.A. supporters dues-paying T.A. members since -75 Chance that a driver who kills spot. 10,600 in 2012. 2008. a bicyclist or a pedestrian was Minimum combined number Percentage change in the amount committing an enforceable traffic +1,275 of cups of hot coffee, free bike of paperwork required to apply violation. 21 Predicted percentage change in lights, copies of T.A.’s Biking for a Play Street, after T.A. Number of car parking spaces the number of daily bicycle trips Rules bicycling guide and bicycle persuaded the City to simplify the that T.A. activists convinced the in New York City one year after maps distributed to those process. City of New York to replace with Citi Bike is launched. bicyclists in bike parking since 2012. three days. 8 in 10 Chance that a pedestrian struck +300 by a vehicle traveling 30 mph Percentage change in the number survives. of T.A. Bike Friendly Businesses in 100,000 New York City since 2011. 3 in 10 Minimum number of bicyclists the Bike Ambassadors talked to Chance of survival if the vehicle about bicycling politely this year. 8,053 is traveling 40 mph. Minimum number of cities that visitors to transalt.org came from in the last year.

8 transportation alternatives' 2012-2013 annual report 9 Streets for people is Transportation Alternatives’ simple democratic ideal: every street in New York City should be designed with equity and efficiency for every user, whether they ride a bicycle, drive a car, navigate with a wheelchair, ride a bus or walk from place to place.

With New York City’s unique geography of islands, bridges, by T.A. field teams, rounded out the case for a change. T.A. diverse neighborhoods and widespread economic centers, activists persuaded every adjacent community board and the only common ground about how New Yorkers get City Council member to sign on in support. Then in 2010, around is that choice is a necessity. Over the past 40 years, the inauguration of New York City’s, and the nation’s, T.A. conceived, honed and began to apply a practical first Complete Street; pedestrian spaces, protected bike response to that need: the Complete Street. Culled from an lanes and demarcated, photo-enforced bus lanes were international pool of safe street designs and fine-tuned to New installed on the streets. Today, 1st and 2nd avenues move York’s unique geography, the Complete Street provides choice New Yorkers more effectively than ever before, with tens where formerly there was car traffic. By combining a series of thousands of bicyclists choosing the route every day, of tools proven to alleviate dangerous traffic – public plazas, a drastic reduction in injuries to everyone who uses the traffic signals timed for pedestrians, protected bicycle lanes street and a Select Bus Service line, with off-board fare and dedicated bus lanes – a Complete Street lays out every collection and two-door street-level boarding, increasing transportation choice in a single, shared route. bus efficiency by 20 percent. In 2004, T.A. brought renowned Danish urban architect With 1st and 2nd avenues as the model for how Jan Gehl to New York City to introduce Complete Streets to residential communities and commercial districts can decisions-makers here. The result was the construction of the organize their neighborhood behind Complete Streets, this country’s first protected bike lane on Manhattan’s 9th Avenue, year T.A. launched a suite of campaigns to build Complete in 2007. The effect was remarkable: crashes dropped by 40 Streets in every borough. percent, injuries to all road users were halved and dangerous Right now, New York City’s widest, most heavily behavior, like bicycling on the sidewalk, was reduced tenfold. trafficked roadways are a double-edged sword: each is a The 9th Avenue protected bike lane introduced only route that New Yorkers unavoidably depend on and each is one aspect of a Complete Street to New Yorkers; in 2009, too dangerous and congested for anything but car traffic. a locally led campaign on the other side of Manhattan This is where T.A. activists are fighting to build Complete fought to complete the vision. On Manhattan’s East Streets. In scores of New York City neighborhoods, local Side, a lack of subway lines left residents clamoring for T.A. activists are talking to their neighbors and the owners more transportation choices. T.A. activists understood of businesses where they spend money. They are educating a Complete Street could change that equation. Their the leaders of their community boards and the City Council campaign for Complete Streets on 1st and 2nd avenues members they helped elect on how to transform New York would become a textbook example of people-powered City roadways into accessible streets with safe space for organizing. Local T.A. activists and residents appeared at walking, bicycling and public transit. With local activists community meetings, petitioned the long bus lines on East in the lead, the roads ripest for improvements will Side street corners and educated local elected officials lead a street-level revolution of new Complete Streets on the benefits of a Complete Street. More than 2,500 touching hundreds of New York City neighborhoods. handwritten letters from community members, collected

10 transportation alternatives' 2012-2013 annual report 11 SHORT STORIES For the summer of 2013, Central Park’s north loop drive will be entirely car-free.

Revise and Improve The first step toward a Complete Street is the demand for better routes Inequitable Streets for bicycling, buses and walking. The second step is ensuring that routes that While bicycle lanes, a critical Complete work for bicycling, busing and walking, Street component, spread throughout work for everyone. T.A. activists are in Manhattan and Brownstone Brooklyn, attendance at the local meetings where progress has been much slower in the successes or slip-ups of Complete with new pedestrian spaces and bicycle bicycling in their communities. other neighborhoods. This year, T.A. Streets are discussed. Then, T.A. lanes on Plaza Street in Brooklyn. In successfully corrected that inequity in works with local residents, businesses the Midtown Manhattan area, more Pieces of the Puzzle two of those communities. On Crotona than eight miles of crosstown bicycle and community board leaders to Complete Streets can’t always arrive Avenue and Southern Boulevard in the routes make connecting to a safe street adjust these safer streets to meet the in a tidy package. Often, T.A. can save Bronx, more than four miles of bike easier than ever before. Also, pedestrians variety of needs. This year, when the lives, slow speeding and build a more lanes and other street improvements have a new mid-block way to walk “6th Broadway Boulevard was found to put pleasant street with simple tweaks, were added to the map. In Brownsville and 1/2 Avenue,” with stop signs, raised pedestrians and bicyclists in too-close rather than wholesale redesign. That’s and East New York in Brooklyn, more 2007 and helped ease into the cityscape Allen Street and 1st and 2nd avenues crosswalks and pedestrian-only waiting exactly why hundreds of local residents than seven miles were added, making in 2013 – is a critical cause for Complete and the campaigns launched in 2012 for areas connecting West 51st Street to rallied to change Lafayette Avenue in bicycling a more accessible choice than Street transformations. It is the nation’s Complete Streets on 5th and 6th avenues West 57th Street through the middle of Brooklyn, where corrected signal timing ever before. Now, T.A.’s Dr. Carl Henry largest bike share system and is expected in Manhattan, and Atlantic Avenue and the block. and sharrows are making bicycling Nacht Health Fellow, an activist and to transform hundreds of thousands of Jay Street in Brooklyn. and crossing the street safer; on Adam public health champion, is exclusively New Yorkers into everyday bicyclists, Bikes Boost Business Clayton Powell Jr. Boulevard, where tasked with safer Brownsville streets. dependent on Complete Streets for Room to Breathe In 2012, T.A. launched the first-ever Bike added paint and pavement are making Her first goal is the addition of new safety and peace of mind. That’s why Though T.A. has stoked a citywide Friendly Business District in the Lower crossing safer and vehicles’ left turns mid-block crossings to make the “super teams of T.A. Bike Ambassadors are demand for Complete Streets, off-street East Side and East Village, showcasing less hazardous; on 7th Avenue South blocks” that proliferate in Brownsville staffed at Citi Bike hubs citywide, waiting space to walk and bicycle remains an that bike lanes are a key part of a thriving and Bleecker Street, where an additional safer. to show users the path to a safe street. ideal respite from bustling city traffic. conditions, T.A. and the Department New York City business. In a unique 1,215 square feet of sidewalk and shorter With Citi Bike in mind, T.A. has fought That's why T.A. activists campaign of Transportation worked out a plan study, T.A. chronicled the local spending crossing distances are making the area Citi Bike Needs Safe Streets for Complete Streets with specific to make New York City's parks and for bicycle infrastructure to be moved habits of car drivers, pedestrians, less dangerous for pedestrians; on dedication to the neighborhoods where The arrival of Citi Bike – the recently greenways more bucolic to walk and out of pedestrians’ way, while retaining bus riders and bicyclists in the East Delancey Street, where a series of traffic Citi Bike launched, like T.A.’s successful inaugurated bike share program that T.A. bike. In 2012, T.A. and the Brooklyn efficient bicycle access and enlarging signals timed for pedestrians, shortened campaign for Complete Streets on Village. The results were another introduced to New York City officials in Greenway Initiative made great pedestrians’ space. On 1st, 2nd, 8th, crosswalks and two new public plazas strides towards the completion of one 9th and Columbus avenues, where are narrowing the road and reducing greenway, inaugurating new stretches Complete Street infrastructure stopped speeding; on Howard Avenue, where of the Brooklyn Waterfront Greenway. abruptly between communities, T.A. an added stop light is making a street And after ten years of advocacy, nearly helped the neighborhoods left out call known for speeding safer; on the Upper completed another, adding nearly two for the extension of the safety initiatives. East Side, where a series of traffic signals miles to the Bronx River Greenway. In Now, all four avenues reach miles further timed for pedestrians is making crossing , historic Marcus Garvey Park is north and south. safer and increasing visibility for drivers; more accessible than ever before, with and in Astoria, Clinton Hill, Fort Greene, new pedestrian space and safer ways Making Connections Kips Bay, East New York and in two to cross. In Central and Prospect parks, While Complete Street innovations locations in Jackson Heights, where where T.A. has been incrementally provide safety and efficiency, their public plazas are slowing local traffic, reaching the goal of car-free parks since unassailable argument for Complete benefit is limited without a direct improving community relationships, the 1980s, T.A. activists convinced Streets, with bus riders, bicyclists and connection to other safe streets. To boosting local businesses and giving City officials to redesign the parks’ pedestrians outspending car drivers create connections between Complete New Yorkers a space of their own in loop drives with a fairer share of the by a heavy margin. With that evidence, Streets, T.A. pioneered a series of those neighborhoods. And these are road space. Now, in both Central and local business owners across the five connector routes in Brooklyn and just a few of the little, local pieces T.A. Prospect parks, walkers, bicyclists and boroughs jumped at inclusion in T.A.’s Manhattan in 2012. Now, Complete helped add to the Complete Street car drivers have one entire lane each. Bike Friendly Business program and Street improvements are accessible puzzle this year. have spent the year advocating for safer

12 transportation alternatives' 2012-2013 annual report 13 HOW DID T.A. GET HERE? Bicycles are the indicator species activism, people on bicycles the bread and butter of T.A.’s activism, A bike lane is only as useful as it is A NETWORK of a city’s streets. Their presence in New York City are more and the most storied slice of T.A.’s connected to bridges, subways and allows a visitor, at first glance, likely to be found bicycling in a mission. That’s why, soon after T.A. was every great New York City destination; OF BIKE to judge the safety of a street. dedicated, demarcated bike lane. founded in 1973, the difference between for a bike lane to be most used it LANES And thanks to 40 years of T.A. Bicycle lanes have always been a single bike lane and a network of requires a network of connections. bike lanes became all-important.

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5th, Madison and Park, By 1993, the City of New ever map of New York protected bike lane following New York City bicyclists York institutes a full- City bicycling routes. his designs on Manhattan’s ignite in protest. T.A. time ban on cars on this 9th Avenue, with bicycle-only 2001 activists unite with bike section of the bridge. traffic signals and a protective An extraordinary T.A. messengers for weekly barrier of parked cars. 1993 idea, the bike-in protests, slowing T.A. sparks a firestorm of Greenway, opens, after 2006 Midtown traffic to a city planning initiatives T.A. helps the City of In response to T.A.'s Bike Safety standstill. By August, the with the publication of The New York secure $75 Action Plan, the City publishes New York State Supreme Bicycle Blueprint: A Plan million in federal, state their Bicyclist Injury and Fatality Court declares the ban to Bring Bicycling into and city funding to Study, the most comprehensive invalid on a technicality, lobbies New York State the Mainstream in New complete the route. New kind mapping tool that chronicles analysis of bicycle crashes, and having seen the and federal officials, York City. An encyclopedic Yorkers flock to the city’s traffic injuries and fatalities to injuries and fatalities to date. boisterous united verve the City of New York 1894 guide to the step-by-step longest uninterrupted bicyclists and pedestrians on Quarterly meetings between of the cycling community, is granted $23 million New York City installs the changes needed to bring off-street bicycle path New York City streets. This new City agencies and the New York the City decides to back for new bicycling and nation's first bike path, on wholesale acceptance and T.A. activists count tool creates a crystal clear map City Bike Coalition accelerate away from the ban. walking projects, as along Brooklyn’s Ocean of bicycling in New York a five-fold increase in of the city’s most dangerous progress on the New York City part of the federal Parkway, eventually 1991 City, published “as a bicycling there by 2002. streets, setting a course for T.A. Bicycle Master Plan, and in the T.A. convenes and hosts challenge to New York program for “Congestion following years, secure more stretching from Prospect ___ activism for years to come. the first "International City to treat its cycling Mitigation / Air Quality,” new bike lanes in a shorter Park to the ocean. A bike After decades of T.A. ___ Conference for Auto- citizens better and to providing funding for period of time than ever before. path on Eastern Parkway watchdogging, bicycle commercial buildings allow letters demanding the bike lanes Free Cities" at New promote bicycling as miles of future bike lanes New York City’s official Bike Week follows soon after. and pedestrian paths 2007 bicyclists to bring their bikes extend to East Harlem. Within York University. a tool for achieving a and public plazas. becomes Bike Month for the on the Manhattan Mayor Bloomberg publishes inside, wiping out a major three years, the bike lanes are 1972 ___ more livable city,” and entirety of May, signaling T.A.’s 1997 Bridge re-open. With PlaNYC 2030. With guidance barrier keeping New Yorkers extended uptown, making 1st Under the moniker “Action touching on everything success at growing bicycling as Six T.A. activists are The City of New York this ribbon cutting, all from T.A. activists, the document from bicycling to work. and 2nd avenues the longest Against Automobiles,” from bridges to bike theft. a favorite trait of New Yorkers’ arrested and charged publishes the New East River bridges are lays the groundwork for a more ___ protected bike lanes in the nation. activists who would everyday lives. with disorderly conduct ___ York City Bicycle open to 24-hour bike sustainable, livable New York. soon become T.A.’s 2011 for blocking traffic After a long-running Master Plan, a map of and pedestrian access 2005 ___ founders host their first A parking-protected bike lane on on the Queensboro campaign, T.A. secures proposed bike lanes, bike for the first time since After three years of campaigning group ride, a “bike-in” Mayor Brooklyn’s West Bridge’s outer roadway, 24-hour access to the parking and bike safety World War II, thanks to and a threatened lawsuit, T.A. from Central Park to appoints Janette Sadik-Khan becomes a flash-point of bike in a demand for safe recommendations for T.A. campaigns dedicated succeeds in having 26 dangerous Washington Square, with to lead the Department of lane love, prompting hundreds of passage for bicyclists system for people with city streets. Produced to each crossing. By expansion joints – raised bumps a detour protest at the Transportation in response to Brooklynites to testify in defense over the bridge. A judge bicycles. This landmark with T.A.’s consultation, 2006, T.A. convinces the on the bridge surface – removed New York Auto Show. T.A.’s demand for a progressive, of the lane at local community rules that T.A. activists victory makes up for the plan follows the City to build ramps for from the Williamsburg Bridge. bicycle-friendly appointee. board hearings, and hundreds 1987 were “justified” in then-major gaps in recommendations of bicyclists at each entrance ___ Once in office, Commissioner more to attend a family bike In July, after Mayor Ed disobeying police orders the bike network and T.A.’s Bicycle Blueprint. of all four bridges. After a sharp rise in the number Sadik-Khan hires away parade that demonstrates that Koch bans bicycles from in an attempt to keep bridge access. 1998 2004 of bicyclists killed in a year, current and former T.A. staff One year after the City announces protected bike lanes are safe key Manhattan avenues, the bicycle lane car-free. 1994 The City of New York T.A. launches T.A. convenes the New York members to lead her office. an 8.1-mile network of new enough for the training-wheel set. publishes the first- crashstat.org, a first of its City Bike Coalition, unifying bike lanes in North Brooklyn, ___ After years of T.A. ___ stakeholders from cycle clubs to T.A. secures New York City’s petitioning, a buffered T.A.’s Caroline Samponaro A lawsuit posed by opponents bike messengers, to publish the first two-way parking protected bike lane is installed on travels to Paris for the launch of the parking-protected bike Bike Safety Action Plan. It calls on bike lane on Kent Avenue. Once , from of Vélib, the bike share system lane on Prospect Park West is the City to study bicycle fatalities, completed, the lane becomes Houston to 14th Street. that revolutionized Paris dismissed as frivolous, proving adopt new bike lane markings a Brooklyn favorite and forms Two years later, T.A. transportation, and sets out once and for all that you cannot and “share the road” signage, a critical link in the Brooklyn activists win a tense to bring a similar system to sue the safety off of a street. and work with T.A. to develop a Waterfront Greenway. fight with the local New York City. Citi Bike, the bike safety outreach plan geared 2013 firehouse over the loss nation’s largest bike share toward drivers and bicyclists. 2010 There are more than 400 miles of their “double-parking system, launches in 2013. T.A. launches a campaign to ___ of on-street bike lanes in New privileges,” and secure add a parking-protected bike 2009 York City, with innovative designs an extension of the T.A. hosts Danish urban planner lane to the plan to improve bus First recommended in T.A.’s tailored to city streets, and more lane to Spring Street. Jan Gehl on a series of meetings service on Manhattan’s 1st and Bicycle Blueprint in 1993, the City than 100 miles of greenways, all with New York City decision- 2nd avenues. At a City Hall rally 1995 Council passes the Bike Access connected in a remarkable and makers. By 2007, the City agrees after it’s installed, T.A. activists After T.A. aggressively to Buildings Law, mandating ever-evolving bicycle network. to construct the nation’s first deliver 2,500 handwritten

transportation alternatives' 2012-2013 annual report 15 Look back 100 years: for millions of New Yorkers, the streets of New York are the front yard, the playground, the ballpark, the shopping mall, the grocery store and the meet-up spot. City streets housed an intersection of public transportation and community, satisfying a need for public space in a growing city. Then, the introduction of the automobile took that all away. Now, streets made dangerous by car traffic have the opposite effect, keeping children indoors, neighbors withdrawn and communities divided.

There is a direct, observable correlation between the by international research: create 20 mph speed limits where number of cars and the quality of life in New York City. speeding traffic adds hazard to residential neighborhoods. When automobiles overtook city streets, people too were After a year of T.A. activists pushing for this solution, New overtaken. Streets became dangerous places, the locale of York City adopted the “Neighborhood Slow Zone” program, traffic crashes where New Yorkers were killed and injured creating 20 mph slow zones where speeding traffic is most while they bicycled, walked or drove. Neighbors lost the ability pervasive. to be out and about in the public space of their community. In 2012, T.A. helped David Sheppard submit an application Urban crime skyrocketed. Without streets that were safe for for the first round of installations. After a Neighborhood Slow play, childhood obesity ballooned; more pollution, more Zone is installed in 2013, traffic on Baychester Avenue and in asthma and scores more New Yorkers maimed by traffic the surrounding neighborhood will be safer than ever before. crashes. Through research and program development, T.A. has But traffic is not New York City’s fate. proposed a stockpile of community-based solutions that Written into the 40-year-old mission of Transportation recalculate how street space is divided in New York City. Alternatives is the fact that these streets are ripe with potential. One after another, the City of New York has adopted these With simple programs that emphasize local people using their solutions into policy: Safe Routes to Schools, Safe Routes for streets as public space, New Yorkers can correct the ills of Seniors, Citi Bike bike share, Neighborhood Slow Zones, Bike traffic in their own neighborhoods. On the most local level, Corrals, Pocket Parks, Public Plazas, Select Bus Service, Play Transportation Alternatives is working to repurpose divisive Streets and Summer Streets are each New York City programs streets into a new way for neighbors to connect by developing developed out of T.A. ideas and research. Each was introduced programs to change how their local roads function. at the petition of thousands of T.A. supporters. In 2009, a speeding driver struck and killed Sonya Powell While T.A. continues to create programs that correct the ills on Baychester Avenue, a notoriously dangerous street in the of the car-centric view, field teams of T.A. activists also provide Bronx. When a T.A. activist reached out to the victim’s fiancé, a localized connection between the City of New York and the David Sheppard, the conversation immediately turned to how solutions that neighborhoods need. By cutting through red to prevent this tragedy from happening ever again. tape, targeting the most needful communities, educating local In 2010, T.A. invited David Sheppard to discuss a solution leaders and petitioning for the most accessible application at New York City’s first-ever Stop Speeding Summit. Hosting processes, T.A. ensures that New Yorkers can correct the effect scholars and innovators in traffic safety from around the of car traffic on their community, and that these solutions world, the Summit began a conversation between local elected are known and within reach for communities where the officials, city policy-makers and community leaders in the consequences of traffic are most felt. neighborhoods most plagued by speeding traffic. The solution proposed by the gathered brain trust was simple and backed

16 transportation alternatives' 2012-2013 annual report 17 SHORT STORIES U nderserved Communities afflicted with disproportionately high In 2012, the City of New York announced rates of asthma and obesity, there is also an that the program would launch, with initial In communities where obesity and asthma unequal portion of children killed in traffic. installation following a path T.A. drew, are prevalent and traffic fatalities are rou- On the Lower East Side, people killed by from Chinatown to Bedford-Stuyvesant, tine, the City programs that could turn back traffic were twice as likely to be children Brooklyn, with a pro-rated pricing scheme the clock on these hazards are too often than on the . This critical for low income and public housing absent. T.A. offers a team of public health research project was a direct response to residents. researchers and activists directly to the the death of 12-year-old Dashane Santana, Play in the Streets communities most effected by car traffic, who was struck and killed crossing Delancey The Welcoming Committee For New York City’s string of urban islands, and with original research, shines a light on Street in 2012. With a bully pulpit buoyed by The unofficial welcoming committee for expanding the city limits is not an option. the inequity. In recent years, T.A.’s Dr. Carl this original research, T.A. paved the way for Citi Bike is T.A.’s in-house field team of With a growing population, the streets must Henry Nacht Health Fellowship sent public change on the Lower East Side, expediting Bike Ambassadors, guiding communities be more than a place to park a car. A Play health researchers into Bedford-Stuyvesant a long-delayed project to calm traffic and through the bike share station location se- Street is a direct response to the problem. and Brownsville, where their research construct public plazas on Delancey Street, lection process, communicating concerns In 2010, T.A. convinced the City of New connected the relative use of streets for under the pressure of T.A.’s findings. Now, to the Department of Transportation and York to adapt its historic and underfunded bicycling, walking or play, to the safety of Dashane Santana’s grandmother serves on assisting New Yorkers with their first bike Play Streets programming, a more than local streets. This year, the Fellowship puts the local community board, speaking up share ride. There are City programs that 100-year-old practice aimed at youth crime an activist from the community on the task for safer streets in communities like hers, have the potential to change a neighbor- prevention, into a program more applicable of making streets amenable to active living. where they’re needed most. hood, but only if that community can to today’s young people and accessible to Already, T.A.’s effort led directly to new access them. That’s why T.A. doubled the thousands of community-based organiza- life-saving interventions in Brownsville, A Bike for Everyone size of the Bike Ambassador field team. tions in New York City. Now, Play Streets like the recent installation of a network of The Bike Ambassadors do more than chase are a public health intervention promoted bike lanes to promote bicycling and calm Transportation Alternatives first introduced down petition signatures: In the com- by First Lady Michele Obama and public traffic, and more subtly, an open spot at the the concept of bike share, and its radical munities where T.A. is changing streets, health advocates nationwide, and they’re community table. As community members potential, to New York City officials in 2007. making bicycling better and inaugurating providing space to play in more than 20 New try to transform their own streets, T.A. has With steady participation in the planning New Brighton, Baychester, Riverdale, better pedestrian ramps, making the streets new places for young people to play, the York City communities in the summer of been accepted as a welcome resource. process, T.A. successfully advocated for the Eastchester, Mount Eden, Claremont, in those communities safe for their large first round of Citi Bike stations to expand Bike Ambassadors are the first people on 2013. the scene and the last to leave. With their Boerum Hill and Inwood. These neighbor- senior populations. AN UNEQUAL BURDEN past transit lines in the low-income neigh- hoods, each with a significant problem with borhoods that would most benefit from person-to-person interaction, T.A. does Slow Down A 2012 T.A. report titled Child Crashes: speeding drivers and too-frequent crashes, Less Red Tape the bicycles as a healthy, affordable form of more than propose essential new public An Unequal Burden found that in public In 2011, at T.A.’s behest, the City of New are now installing speed bumps, narrowed transportation, and fought for a lower price programs or help New Yorkers connect to To make the process as practical as possible housing communities on the East Side of York introduced the Neighborhood Slow road widths and gateways introducing the point for low-income New Yorkers and New these integral new city tools; T.A. ensures for local communities and to encourage Manhattan, where children are already Zone program to create 20 mph zones in slower 20 mph speed limit. Already in 2013, York City Housing Authority residents. that these programs succeed. a multitude of applications, in 2013, T.A. neighborhoods where dangerous speeding T.A. fielded scores of inquiries about the petitioned the City of New York to condense was a serious community problem, a application process and is actively assisting the application process for Play Streets, concept developed at T.A.’s 2010 Stop neighborhoods as they demand a slower, successfully cutting paperwork and ad- Speeding Summit. By 2012, with the help safer speed for their community. ministration time by 75 percent. With T.A. of T.A. organizers and in an expression providing assistance to local organizers, of overwhelming demand, communities Safer for Seniors Play Streets are spreading. For the summer flooded the application process with more It’s a sad fact that older New Yorkers are of 2013, more than 30 new organizations than 100 proposals. In all, T.A. saw 13 disproportionately more likely to be struck filed applications for Play Streets, joining applications through the process, and now and killed by a vehicle while walking. That’s scores of already established community Neighborhood Slow Zones are installed why, in 2003, T.A. piloted a program called Play Streets. Young people have found a or scheduled for Auberndale, Jackson Safe Routes for Seniors, which advocates for summertime place to play in the streets Heights, Corona, Rosebank, Dongan Hills, Complete Street tools and techniques to be of their neighborhood, now that T.A. has applied where older New Yorkers live and spread Play Streets to every borough. In the walk. In 2008, the City of New York adopted summer of 2013, thanks to T.A., Play Streets the program, and now, cities nationwide are will change thousands of young peoples’ trying it out. In the past year, the application relationship to public space and push public of T.A.’s Safe Routes for Seniors program health into the public eye in Brownsville, brought improvements to Kingsbridge, East New York, Bedford-Stuyvesant, Manhattan Valley, East Harlem, Turtle Clinton Hill, Inwood, Jackson Heights, Bay, Forest Hills, Middle Village, Flatbush, University Heights, Woodstock, Sea Gate, Gerritsen Beach, Bay Ridge, Bath Beach and Williamsburg, Cypress Hills, Washington South Beach. On the ground, intersections Heights, East Harlem and Forest Hills. are transformed, with larger pedestrian islands, shorter crossing distances and

18 transportation alternatives' 2012-2013 annual report 19 HOW DID T.A. GET HERE? SAFE STREET Urban planners and street architects Alternatives has been researching the neighborhood basis. The goal is to create local environment. With the rallied understand that it takes the right best practices for correcting dangerous safe street interventions – to remedy uproar of a hundred thousand New INTERVENTIONS tools to make streets safer. Applying streets and developing programs that speeding, red light running, deficient Yorkers, T.A. convinces governments on those tools is the difficult step in the allow wholesale, replicable change police enforcement and countless other the city, state and federal level to enact process. Since 1973, Transportation to occur on a neighborhood-by- dangers – that can be tailored to fit the these T.A. programs as official policy.

1980s 1980s 1990s 1990s 2000s 2010s 1988 1995 the law culminates more than The number of applications After an 18-month-old T.A. writes to the City a decade of T.A. activism for for Play Streets soars. girl crossing the street of Odense, Denmark to NYPD transparency, beginning ___ with her mother is find out more about their in 1997, when the NYPD first enacted the TrafficStat program, After years of legislative stalling dragged 13 blocks by a traffic calming programs, on T.A.’s Speed Camera Bill, car driver who ran a red which use community to record and analyze traffic crash and summonsing data, a string of violent crashes light, the nation's first participation to map out caused by speeding inspires red light enforcement primary routes to schools at T.A.’s recommendation. The newly accessible data identifies T.A. supporters to send more cameras are installed on throughout the city. than 4,600 letters to Albany New York City streets. New York City’s most crash- 1996 prone and enforcement-deficient decision-makers and rally the 1993 The first-ever speed intersections and sets the course support of the mayor, police chief, In conclusion of a series bumps are installed in for T.A.’s safe street interventions comptroller, public advocate radar gun studies of New York City, an early for years to come. and entire New York City Council speeding on New York example of a physical ___ behind the bill. Thanks to T.A. City streets, T.A. publishes addition to the street activists lobbying in Albany Speeder City, a report exclusively for safety Directly in line with T.A. up to the final minutes of the that definitively proves purposes and a direct recommendations from 1998 legislative session, T.A.'s Speed that the New York City result of T.A. demand. to 2010, the City of New York Camera Bill finally passes Police Department is not announces the Neighborhood in the summer of 2013. ___ program, modeled on enforcing the speed limit 1997 2000 Slow Zone program, and begins In , a After years of research T.A.’s Safe Routes to Safe Routes to Schools. 2013 on local streets. By 1996, to install 20 mph zones in select T.A.-organized coalition and development, T.A. School program is funded ___ More than 25 Safe Routes the NYPD shifts resources New York neighborhoods. T.A. of activists called the introduces “Safe Routes by members of the U.S. paint, T.A. lays down a guerilla Speeding Summit, where he for Seniors interventions and in response, adding an T.A.activists introduce activists rally local communities Neighborhood Streets to Schools,” a 10-step House of Representatives. traffic calming system on a leads a conversation about the more than 135 Safe Routes to additional 100 officers a Speed Camera to the cause, helping to submit Network leads monthly program to identify and By 2006, the program dangerous corner of 3rd Avenue dramatic safety boon of 20 mph Schools interventions have been to traffic summonsing Bill in the New York more than 100 applications to rallies demanding improve dangerous is included in the in Brooklyn, outside a recently speed limits with international implemented on New York City shifts and creating a State legislature. the first round of the program. traffic calming in their intersections near federal transportation completed mural depicting young traffic safety scholars, city streets. Fourteen Neighborhood special squad of traffic- Now, in all five boroughs, neighborhood. After schools, with the help of bill and implemented 2004 people killed by traffic in the planners, New York City elected Neighborhood Slow Zones are Slow Zones have been approved dedicated officers. The City of New York T.A. activists stop traffic Bronx Borough President in cities across the neighborhood. officials and policy-makers in reducing traffic speeds, improving and are installed or scheduled ___ adopts T.A.’s Safe Routes for the fifth time in six Fernando Ferrer. The nation, mandating safer attendance. quality of life on residential for installation in the summer to Schools program as T.A. activists persuade months in an act of civil pilot program debuts on streets for millions 2008 streets and putting the onus of 2013. Today, 170 red light its own and expands the The City of New York adopts T.A.’s 2011 legislators to reauthorize disobedience, Brooklyn the streets surrounding of schoolchildren of safety on the people driving cameras are in operation on safety initiative citywide, Safe Routes for Seniors program Mayor Bloomberg signs T.A.’s New York City's red light Borough President 18 Bronx schools. across America. through local communities. surveying and mapping as its own and expands the safety Saving Lives Through Better City streets and in June, T.A.'s camera program for Howard Golden submits Information Bill, requiring the speed camera legislation the first time. At every a proposal to use 1998 2003 conditions and crashes initiative citywide. 2012 T.A. kicks off a campaign In response to a spate around all New York City NYPD to publish a monthly At T.A.’s behest, the City of New passed into law. Twenty school subsequent opportunity, federal funds for the to reduce New York City’s of deaths of older schools, identifying the 2009 record of traffic crashes and York introduces a 75 percent zones are scheduled to have T.A. activists document project. When planning More than a decade after T.A. first speed limit, and soon New Yorkers and the 135 most dangerous summonsing. The passage of shorter Play Streets application. speed cameras installed. the effectiveness of eventually begins, the identified children as the most after, Mayor Rudolph disproportionate rates at and beginning to correct the program and fight Downtown Brooklyn vulnerable users of New York City Giuliani endorses a which older New Yorkers hazardous conditions for to expand it, adding Traffic Calming Project is streets, and a few months after T.A.-supported bill to are struck by vehicles, walking there. more red light cameras the nation’s largest traffic the driver was not charged when to city streets. calming project ever. reduce traffic speeds. T.A. introduces the “Safe Routes for Seniors” 2007 four-year-old Hayley Ng and 1999 With planters and three-year-old Diego Martinez After decades of denied were killed by his rolling, T.A. requests for traffic unattended truck, T.A. introduces calming due to a quirk the Hayley Ng and Diego Martinez in New York law that Act, to create stiffer penalties disallowed the City from for crashes that kill or injure designing streets for vulnerable users of the street. It anything slower than the is signed into law the following speed limit, T.A. rallies year. a massive coalition to lead the passage of the 2010 “New York City Traffic T.A. writes to Rod King, a Calming Law,” allowing community organizer in the the Department of United Kingdom who helps cities Transportation to design convert to a 20 mph speed limit. streets for speeds as Thanks to a select group of T.A. low as 15 mph using donors, Rod King is brought to traffic calming devices. New York City for T.A.’s Stop

transportation alternatives' 2012-2013 annual report 21 A good idea can save a life, prevent a crash or change the course of a day. Any New Yorker who’s wiled away an afternoon in a public plaza or seen how traffic’s threat is diffused by a Play Street taking over a local block can understand how even Transportation Alternatives’ smallest ideas affect New Yorkers’ day-to-day reality. But small-scale changes are a tedious way to redraw a city’s blueprint. With trust, attention and clear communication with New York’s elected officials, T.A. takes these tiny ideas and cements them as City and State policy, in perpetuity.

T.A.’s teams of activists affect public policy by In the summer of 2013, a trial speed enforcement providing a line of communication from the people camera program broke out into citywide demand. of New York to their elected officials. In turn, those The legislation first introduced by T.A. in 2003 was officials understand that T.A. can effectively connect stalled in Albany. Thousands of T.A. supporters them to their constituents’ needs. For forty years, jumped into action, calling and petitioning New T.A. has developed policies that proactively and York State officials. T.A. field teams flooded the comprehensively correct the dangers of New streets in the districts of dissenting legislators and York City streets. collected letters from their constituents. While T.A. In 1988, a Red Light Camera Bill passed the activists raised a rallying cry to Albany’s in-boxes and New York State legislature, expanding a small New phone lines, T.A. connected New York City Council York City pilot program to police New York City members to the families of victims of traffic crashes streets – the nation's first automated enforcement caused by speeding. With that visceral connection, program. By the early 90s, inspired by the program's T.A. was able to guide concerned City Council effectiveness, T.A. activists took up its expansion. members through the process of passing a resolution With documentation of the massive safety boon in support of T.A.’s State legislation, and to persuade automated enforcement provides, T.A. activists the support of New York City’s comptroller, public secured the re-authorization of New York City's red advocate, mayor and police commissioner. For the light camera program in 1993. Since that time, T.A. final days of the legislative session, T.A. activists were activists kept the program's success at the forefront in Albany to introduce legislators to the families of of the day's news and its expansion an on-going crash victims. process that added more red light cameras to New The need for this life-saving tool resonated from York City streets, year after year. Today, there are the grassroots and the grass-tops, all the way to the more than 170 red light cameras installed, millions State Capitol. In June, both the State Assembly and of red light running drivers caught and fewer traffic Senate overwhelmingly passed the bill. injuries caused by red light running drivers than ever The tragic story of the Glauber family is one of before. hundreds that T.A. responds to, one of thousands In March of 2013, Nathan Glauber and his wife that T.A. activists are fighting to prevent. With Raizel, six months pregnant, were struck by a driver original research and timely studies, T.A. educates traveling double the speed limit. They were both elected officials, empowers budding power-players killed instantly. to ally with T.A.’s issues, and provides the factual The story of the Glauber family was one of base they need to change city policy and pass safer hundreds of stories of New Yorkers killed by a practices into law. Thanks to the organized, speeding driver. But for the New Yorkers who look to reverberating zeal of 100,000 T.A activists, T.A. to keep the streets of New York safe, the story of those policies and practices become law, again the Glauber family was the final straw. and again.

22 transportation alternatives' 2012-2013 annual report 23 of the infrastructure improvements SHORT STORIES installed on New York City’s safest streets were approved first by local community boards. To ensure the city’s community boards are brimming with educated neighbors who understand the importance of infrastructure for Every Crash Investigated pedestrians and bicyclists, in 2012, T.A. initiated dozens of New Yorkers into the Until recently, for tens of thousands of community board application process. New Yorkers grievously injured in traffic Now, in neighborhoods throughout crashes every year, the only accessible New York, local community boards officially considered all traffic crashes public justice was Transportation are packed with active, educated “accidents,” faultless and unprevent- Alternatives' advocacy on their behalf, people demanding safer bicycling and able. After T.A. traveled to Albany to since the NYPD refused to investigate walking through the most powerful local lobby the Department of Motor Vehicles collisions unless someone was killed. channel, their community. T.A. devoted the past year to amplifying and won the buy-in of state police offi- the stories of New Yorkers left with terri- cials, all official DMV forms and online Better Relationships ble injury and no investigative evidence, materials were changed from “accident” calling out uninvestigated crashes in to “crash,” in 2012. T.A. alerted their A positive relationship with police the press and providing the victims 100,000 supporters to the DMV’s officers can make a big difference in en- a pulpit on the steps of City Hall and correction and the fact that the NYPD forcement on the local level. That’s why police headquarters. After T.A. rallied maintained this inaccuracy. Thousands T.A. activists are in attendance at local thousands of New Yorkers to demand spoke out, embracing the effect simple precinct community council meetings the City Council intervene in the NYPD’s semantics can have on the outlook of across the city and dedicated to bringing lackluster crash investigation practices tens of thousands of police officers precinct commanders to the table every and thousands more to demand the and millions of drivers. Demanding a chance they get. By dedicating time invited the local 94th Precinct to be part attorneys, NYPD executive officers, redesigns are accompanied by a public NYPD comply, Police Commissioner change, they petitioned to “Send Police to these connections, local activists of the conversation. This year, a digital beat cops and experts on enforcement comment process to address commu- Ray Kelly announced increased staffing Commissioner Ray Kelly a dictionary!” have seen on-the-ground results. In NYPD sign publicized drivers’ speeds and policing, T.A. published Executive nity concerns, the City has piloted a and a change in policy toward more The NYPD heard the call for change loud Greenpoint, Brooklyn, after multiple in real-time on McGuinness Boulevard, Order: A Mayoral Strategy for Traffic web-based tool to allow New Yorkers to thorough, wide-spread investigations and clear. Now, both the New York State horrific crashes caused by speeding jolt- and the 94th Precinct wrote more than Safety. The investigative report laid out directly report dangerous conditions in of not just fatal traffic crashes, but the Department of Motor Vehicles and New ed the community, T.A. activists teamed double the number of speeding tickets a blueprint for creating real deterrents to Bay Ridge and Jackson Heights and the collisions that leave thousands of New York City Police Department, as a policy, up with concerned local residents as in the prior year. dangerous driving in 20 recommenda- mayor has reaffirmed the Department Yorkers seriously injured as well. refer to all traffic crashes as “crashes” and community groups to form the tions. Since its publication, T.A. activists or “collisions” respectively. McGuinness Boulevard Working Group. Information is Power have been steadily checking recom- “My streets. My vote.” The working group conducted radar gun mendations off the list. Public access to Everything is Local studies, installed pedestrian memorials After a multi-year effort of political NYPD summonsing and crash data, the T.A. educates the constituencies of for New Yorkers killed on the street, persuasion in New York City’s highest re-institution of the NYPD’s practice of Not all public policy turns on a level as elected officials who stand in the path rallied thousands to petition for stricter echelons, T.A. activists successfully "Collision-Prone Location" deployment, lofty as the New York City Council or of progress and rouses a community enforcement, and most importantly, passed the Saving Lives through Better the use of cameras by NYPD officers at State Legislature. In fact, the majority of grassroots activists who keep the Information Bill in 2010. By forcing the crash scenes, the inclusion of “crashes political grass-tops in line. In an election New York City Police Department to resulting in serious injury” in the NYPD year, these tactics are increasingly publish summonsing data every month, Collision Investigation Squad purview potent. So in early 2013, Transportation the law guarantees that any New Yorker and the passage of the Hayley Ng and Alternatives launched transalt.org/ can correlate the connection between a Diego Martinez Law to protect people on vote, a user-driven platform that takes dangerous street and deficient enforce- foot and on bike are just a few of those T.A.’s most populist issues directly to ment. Already, T.A. has transformed now marked as accomplished. Riding on the candidates, in the form of 100,000 that raw data into an assessment of how the transformative effect of that effort, New Yorkers telling every candidate for increasing traffic enforcement can lead T.A. activists next undertook an even elected office, “My streets. My vote.” to lives saved with the publication of the more holistic project. Vision Zero: How Candidates responded instantaneously, report Deadly Driving Unlimited, which Safer Streets in New York City Can Save turning to T.A. for policy cues, giving proves incontrovertibly that a majority More Than 100 Lives a Year proposed a voice to T.A.’s vision and developing of the crashes that kill bicyclists and wholesale change in philosophy, adopt- of Transportation’s mandate to improve pedestrians were the result of enforce- platforms that directly address New ing the ideal that even a single death in street safety. The City now compiles able traffic offenses. York City’s unsafe streets. traffic in unacceptable and laying out and publishes monthly reports on traffic concrete, actionable steps to reach that safety, identifies the most dangerous Checking Off the List It’s No Accident visionary goal. Collaborating with the intersections and implements street In 2009, T.A. undertook a first of its Drum Major Institute to add political designs built to reduce speeding, and is Prior to 2012, the New York State kind research project, delving into heft to T.A.’s recommendations, many expanding the 20 mph Neighborhood Department of Motor Vehicles and the underbelly of the NYPD. Over six of T.A.’s demands can be checked off Slow Zone program – each a T.A. New York City Police Department both months and 30 interviews with district as accomplished. Now, major street recommendation realized.

24 transportation alternatives' 2012-2013 annual report 25 HOW DID T.A. GET HERE? Across New York City, Transportation way to build cities. At the center of of car-free spaces – from neighborhood forward, while T.A. helps New Yorkers Cra -free Alternatives facilitates the installation T.A.’s 40-year mission is one simple public plazas to Times Square’s expanses subvert the dominant paradigm on their Spaces of innovative solutions to dangerous goal: reverse the dominance of the to New York City’s crown jewels, Central own, by providing tools to reclaim public streets and inaccessible public automobile on New York City. At T.A.’s and Prospect Park – has inched this goal space from car traffic where they live. spaces, demonstrating a better recommendation, the inauguration

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by proposing that cities collecting more than their peers, the students march the application process and function better as a whole 1,500 signatures in just across the Brooklyn Bridge for petitioning the City of New York when streets encourage five hours. By 2011, a City Hall rally to deliver the to increase the applicant pool socialization, rather than Grand Army Plaza is postcards. In response, in 2009, and create a simpler, shorter domination by cars. completely redesigned. the 3rd Street entrance to the application. park was closed to traffic, leaving 2011 1974 2005 only a single entrance and exit to T.A. rallies around the After thousands of T.A. supporters Thanks to a select group the park open to vehicles. car-free potential of of T.A. donors who petition the City of New York and Broadway, declaring on financed his visit, T.A. 2009 call their local officials about a series of photocopied brings urban planner Jan Based on designs by Jan Gehl, their love of the car-free Times 1899 flyers, “Cars off of Gehl in from Copenhagen. and pressure from T.A. activists Square, the City submits designs The first cars are Broadway NOW!” The people-first designs to create grand, central examples for making the pedestrianization allowed on the Central to guide the expansion of the of the Crossroads of the 1979 free Prospect Park, and car-free Times Square. that are Gehl’s namesake Park loop drive. City’s public plaza program, World a permanent part of After T.A. gathers a he agrees, requesting By 2011, Times Square are the blueprint for the streets surrounding the streetscape, and the $27 1909 “blue ribbon panel” to the Department of is permanently car-free. the next ten years of T.A. activism. After Times Square, Herald Square, million redesign begins. Sidewalk space on 5th recommend that car-free Transportation conduct 1998 T.A. activists make an Madison Square and Union Avenue, then a two-lane periods are key to a safer the study. In response day relaxing there. The liberated to Donald Appleyard’s famous 2013 In response to petitioning introduction, the City of Square are transformed into More than 22 neighborhood street, is cut by 15 feet to Central Park, the City to pressure from space turns heads all day. The study, demonstrating how varying by T.A. activists, Brooklyn New York hires Gehl in a car-free public plazas. public plazas are installed or create an additional lane of New York runs with T.A. activists, the 5th following year, T.A. activists levels of traffic in three New York Avenue, West 110th and Borough President 2007 to craft a new street under construction, and scores for car traffic. The change T.A.’s recommendations, convince the City of New York to City neighborhoods affects local 2010 Howard Golden hosts a design policy for New of major streets have been making weekends in the 106th Street entrances follow their lead: in Williamsburg, quality of life. After T.A. rallies thousands of destroys the sunken town hall meeting on a York. redesigned to include car-free park car-free and adding to Central Park are the City replaces car parking supporters enamored with the gardens of the Waldorf car-free Prospect Park. ___ 2007 space, like Delancey Street, a pedestrian and bicycle closed to cars. spots with space to park 30 public plazas on Broadway in Astoria, among other More than 400 people With T.A.’s consultation and vocal Grand Army Plaza and Madison lane to the loop drive. After years of talking to bicycles for the first time, and Times Square, the City agrees roadside beautifications, show up for the standing- support, the City of New York Square. In Prospect and Central park-goers, T.A. activists in DUMBO, Brooklyn, the City to extend the project south, on the once 30 foot 1981 room only meeting. publishes PlaNYC 2030, including Park, one traffic lane is changed collect 100,000 signatures transforms a small parking lot creating the grand Broadway wide sidewalks. Humanist urban planner Ninety-three people testify the commitment to install a from car to bicycle designation, in favor of a car-free into the first-ever “pocket park.” Boulevard, a more than 25-block- Donald Appleyard in support of a car-free public plaza in every New York giving pedestrians, cyclists and 1914 Central Park, and in ___ long bike lane and parking- publishes Livable Streets, park, including the NYPD; City neighborhood. drivers each their own lane, and The New York City response, the City instates protected pedestrian plaza. establishing the first only four testify against. T.A.’s Neighborhood Streets for the summer of 2013, Central Police Athletic League alternating morning 2008 ___ scientific correlation Network and their success Park's north loop drive will be 2001 and evening closures T.A. publishes Streets to Live By, introduces street closures between quality of life establishing the Downtown T.A. discovers the underfunded entirely closed to car traffic. After six years of to cars on the Central a seminal report documenting to car traffic, opening the and urban traffic. Brooklyn Traffic Calming Project Police Athletic League Play There will be more than 20 Play campaigning and Park loop drive. City the economic, social and health space to kids to encourage inspires the closure of the Streets program and begins to Streets occurring in New York 1992 community research, T.A. Council members from benefits of dedicated public connect communities without outdoor play, creating intersection of Willoughby and City in the summer of 2013. With the help of local activists bring improved the four neighborhoods spaces. Nearly all of the eight- access to open space to the the first “Play Street.” Adams streets to traffic. With activists, T.A. sends conditions for walking to surrounding Prospect point list of recommendations program by assisting with planters, benches and café tables, 1961 20,000 postcards to Times Square, including Park sign-on to a T.A. toward a more walkable city have New York City’s first public plaza Jane Jacobs publishes Brooklyn Borough wider sidewalks, stricter letter requesting a three- since become City policy. parking regulations and is born. In 2013, it was paved into The Death and Life of President Howard Golden 1994 month trial closure of the ___ new traffic patterns. T.A. a permanent, raised plaza. Great American Cities, and demanding a study of A “Car-Free Grand park drives. the feasibility of a car- responds to the victory ___ The DOT announces the New inspires T.A.’s founding Concourse” closes the by calling for more: a 2006 York City Public Plaza program, Grand Concourse to cars DOT Commissioner Iris Weinshall “pedestrian and transit In , Brooklyn, with a budget of over $43 million from 161st to 198th responds to T.A.’s demand for street” on Broadway T.A. activists open lawn over three years, to build public Street. Originally reserved more pedestrian-dedicated from 48th to 23rd Street. chairs across two parking spaces into underused streets. for summer Sundays, spaces, vowing to identify Protected bike lanes and spaces and spend the With T.A.’s support, more than the T.A. Bronx Activist locations ripe for, “aggressive public plazas are installed 23 new public plazas have been Committee successfully pedestrianization,” and proposing along the street in 2010. completed, with another 26 extends the program a series of new car-free spaces planned or under construction. through November. 2003 suggested by T.A., including ___ 1995 Pointing to an increasing Grand Army Plaza and Times number of crashes and Square. Under T.A.’s tutelage, four Citing dangerous a dangerous barrier to ___ Brooklyn high school students conditions for pedestrians open space accessibility, from the neighborhoods and major overcrowding After two years of research T.A. activists rally for a surrounding Prospect Park on sidewalks, T.A. activists and interviews, T.A. publishes safer Grand Army Plaza, collect 10,000 postcards for a launch a campaign for a Traffic’s Human Toll, an update car-free park. With hundreds of

26 transportation alternatives' 2012-2013 annual report 27 From New York City’s highest public office to the local community board, Transportation Alternatives’ public reputation as a potent political force hinges on a finely tuned ability to educate, empower, organize and rally masses of New Yorkers. This is how T.A. turns the strength of a staff of 28 full-time activists and community organizers into a citywide movement. Providing New Yorkers with tools to rewrite their neighborhood’s story and connecting New Yorkers with a direct line to the halls of power, the T.A. community multiplies the political power of T.A.’s small staff.

Over 40 years, T.A. cultivated a network of local experts, inaugurating the first ever Bike Friendly Businesses District. urbanists, dreamers and do-ers willing to fight for New York It’s a new idea that does more than prove that bicycling is City: T.A.’s Advisory Council and Board of Directors, an activist good for the bottom-line; it’s a way for business owners to committee in every borough, 10,000 dues-paying members participate in the T.A. community. From this new coalition, and thousands of volunteers are the backbone, heart and head small business owners advocate together for better bicycling in of the T.A. community. their community. And since they’ve won new bike parking and For guidance and leadership, T.A. turns to its Board of bike lanes in the district, bicycling there has only increased. It’s Directors and Advisory Council. These teams of doctors, a virtuous cycle, and a welcome new part of the T.A. family. lawyers, scholars, urban planners, business owners, financial For T.A.'s 100,000 supporters, standing with T.A. is wizards and community leaders encompass a perspective as about more than self-identification as a bicyclist or a bus broad as New York itself. This influential group ensures that rider or a pedestrian – it’s about standing up for what’s T.A. stays on course, and under their advisement, each of T.A.’s right. The T.A. community is built on a shared idea of justice networks – funders, T.A. members and activists – has grown and a belief that all New Yorkers deserve safe passage and a real exponentially. say in how they get from A to B. In every borough, every month, T.A. activist committees For those 100,000 New Yorkers, T.A. is the voice at the gather to strategize, socialize and sound off on the places they other end of the line. Whether they’re enraged at the unjust see the need to apply T.A.’s mission into immediate goals. treatment of pedestrians in New York City or inspired to bring These local activists are experts on their home borough, and bike lanes to their neighborhood, they know T.A. has the tools, inspired to bring change to the places that matter most to the political prowess and the open arms to meet their goals and them. Moreover, they organize locally with the understanding solve their problems. that their community exists as a unit, and the improvements On each of T.A.’s five bike tours, volunteers wear a T.A. can help them secure become self-contained examples sticker that reads, “I’m here to help.” At community board for the entire borough. With at least three annual goals that meetings, T.A. activists wear a sticker that reads, “Talk to me advance T.A.’s mission locally, these community activists about your neighborhood.” These little markers are more represent T.A. at the borough level while transforming streets than conversation-starters; they’re the most ardent mantra citywide into Complete Streets. of a 40-year-old organization, and the guiding light of T.A.’s This year, in the East Village and on the Lower East continued growth: Talk to T.A. about your neighborhood, Side, a group of T.A. supporters and small business owners we’re here to help. joined forces to start a new chapter in the T.A. community,

28 transportation alternatives' 2012-2013 annual report 29 FINANCIAL STATEMENTS December 31, 2012, 2011, 2010, 2009

2012 DONOR SUPPORT REVENUES & OTHER SUPPORT 2012 2011 2010 2009 Contributions $1,707,531 $1,508,015 $1,133,949 $818,699 Membership $279,843 $216,381 $229,891 $268,730 Transportation Alternatives is powered Grants $515,399 $383,398 $201,350 $290,453 by the passion and financial support Program Service Fees $394,195 $366,937 $283,626 $230,030 of New Yorkers who believe in T.A.’s Sponsorship $134,015 $129,771 $99,624 $164,308 vision for a better city. These forward- Interest Income $2,643 $3,383 $3,509 $3,898 Other $33,060 $14,779 $54,408 $37,827 thinking urbanites are more than the Funds Released bold activists and generous donors who from Restriction $- $134,500 $313,724 $287,618 keep T.A. at the frontlines of a changing TOTAL REVENUE & OTHER SUPPORT $3,066,686 $2,757,164 $2,320,081 $2,101,563 city; these are T.A. members. For almost the entirety of Transportation Individuals: 79.6% EXPENSES Alternatives’ 40 years, membership Foundations: 12.6% Program Services $2,576,173 $2,140,281 $1,649,003 $1,599,722 has been the moral resonance buoying Corporate: 7.3% Management $254,024 $337,118 $270,758 $138,907 Government: 0.5% T.A. activism. Once an all-volunteer Fundraising $174,398 $213,755 $184,746 $132,631 TOTAL EXPENSES $3,004,595 $2,691,154 $2,104,507 $1,871,260 effort, T.A. has grown into a New York Change in Net Assets $56,958 $66,010 $215,574 $230,303 City institution, with more than 10,000 TOTAL EXPENSES Net Assets at dues-paying members investing in our Beginning of Year $1,424,870 $1,358,869 $1,188,295 $957,992 work each year. NET ASSETS AT END OF YEAR $1,481,837 1 ,424,879 $1,403,869 $1,188,925

In 2012, for the first time, STATEMENT OF FINANCIAL POSITION contributions from T.A. members, December 31, 2012, 2011, 2010 & 2009 foundations and corporate partners ASSETS 2012 2011 2010 2009 totaled more than three million Cash and dollars – roughly double T.A.’s Cash Equivalents $1,284,661 $1,290,567 $1,226,243 $1,074,047 Accounts Receivable $207,244 $156,645 $191,811 $111,707 annual budget just six years ago. Pledges Receivable $- $- $- $8,602 Fully three-quarters of T.A.’s income Prepaid Expenses $27,860 $21,780 $10,624 $10,394 comes from individual donors. Whether Deposits $16,583 $16,583 $16,583 $16,583 paying membership dues, registering for Program Services: 78% Fixed Assets, Management: 13% Net of Depreciation a T.A. bike tour or donating to support Fundraising: 9% and Amortization $57,079 $51,465 $18,749 $12,679 the specific organizing effort of the day, Total Assets $1,593,427 $1,537,040 $1,464,010 $1,234,012 the people who support T.A. propel the vision of a better New York City – where LIABILITIES bicycling, walking and public transit are Accounts Payable $53,957 $59,661 $55,086 $40,662 Security Deposit $- $- $5,055 $5,055 the norm – to new heights each year. Loans Payable $- $- $- $- Total Liabilities $53,957 $59,661 $60,141 $45,517 TOTAL REVENUE NET ASSETS 2009 $2,101,563 Unrestricted Net Assets - 2010 $2,320,081 Board Designated $400,000 $400,000 $300,000 $200,000 2011 $2,757,164 Unrestricted 2012 $3,066,686 Net Assets $1,081,837 $1,024,879 $888,295 $757,992 Temporarily Restricted Net Assets $57,633 $52,500 $- $70,000 Total Net Assets $1,539,470 $1,477,379 $1,188,295 $1,027,992 Total Liabilities and Net Assets $1,593,427 $1,537,040 $1,234,012 $1,150,991

30 transportation alternatives' 2012-2013 annual report 31 Janet Liff Jeremy Grysman Marks Family Foundation Patagonia Planned Giving Bevis & Clara Longstreth Sarah Horne Marty & Dorothy Silverman Planet Bike A thoughtful planned gift can John Luisi & Eileen Ruth Howell Foundation Public Bikes minimize estate settlement Harrington Julie Huntington Max & Rose Katz Foundation Q+A Events & Productions costs and taxes, ensure that your property is managed in Carol Lutz Elaine Kang The Ronald & Jo Carole Rapha Transportation Alternatives gratefully acknowledges The following list represents major gifts received in the manner of your choosing Adam Mansky & Chloe Karen Karp Lauder Foundation Redbeard Bikes and guarantee income for the following individuals and organizations whose 2012. T.A. is supported by more than 10,000 dues- Wasserman Elizabeth Peters S+F Charitable Fund REI life for your family. paying members and a network of 100,000 supporters, generous contributions provide the financial resources Constance Marks Elly Roman Shepard Family Revolution Rickshaws to sustain T.A.’s campaigns for better biking, walking and is immensely grateful to all the members whose Including Transportation Laura McKenna Lisa Soverino Philanthropy Fund Rodale Alternatives in your will or and public transit in New York City. gifts are not listed due to space limitations. 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32 transportation alternatives' 2012-2013 annual report 33 CELEBRATING 40 YEARS OF

Car-free parks

Play streets pUBLIC plazas

DEDICATED BUS LANES

COMPLETE STREETS

PROTECTED BIKE LANES

SAFER CROSSWALKS

BETTER CRASH INVESTIGATIONS

EFFICIENT BUSES AND AFFORDABLE SUBWAYS

GREENWAYS

BIKE SHARE

BIKES ON BRIDGES

BIKES ON SUBWAYS

MORE NEW YORKERS BICYCLING THAN EVER BEFORE