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Transportation Alternatives is a New York-based organization advocating for bicycling, walking and public transit. The organization is involved in every aspect of traveling around New York City. From bike routes and bus lanes to pedestrian crossings and car parking, Transportation Alternatives endeavors for safer, smarter transportation and a healthier city.

When the organization was founded in 1973, New York City’s cycling population was one-fifth of current ridership and the number of pedestrians killed each year by cars was more than twice as high. Since then, Transportation Alternatives has been laying the groundwork of a safer city – pedestrian plazas, parking-protected bike lanes, the very philosophy of the livable street – and working to introduce this innovation into the urban landscape. We see New York City as a web of streets and green spaces that viewed as a whole, are the foundation of a city with a greater quality of life. With the help of our 1,000 active volunteers and 8,000 members, T.A. makes the streets of New York City better, and mile-by-mile, acre-upon-acre, we're shaping and envisioning a brighter way to travel.

Growing Cycling
With flat avenues and a compact grid, New York City was a brilliant place to bicycle even before T.A. rolled onto the scene. Today, because of our persistence and introduction of better ideas for biking from around the world, the cycling potential of that compact grid is now blossoming into hundreds of miles of new bike lanes and innovative street designs.

Traffic Safety and Enforcement
A bike lane is of little use with a car parked in it, and sidewalks are only as safe as the crosswalks that connect them. That’s why our members and volunteers work with local police precincts to make individual community streets safe to travel, and why we fight for those small changes to become policy citywide. We study what make streets most dangerous and advocate for laws that protect the lives of cyclists and pedestrians.

Safe Streets
The ideal urban streetscape affords one major criterion: anyone can get around. Crosswalks should be accessible and intersections navigable. With streets and sidewalks amounting to 80of New York City’s public space, Transportation Alternatives works with individual communities to make those spaces and streets safe for all, advocating for multi-modal use to be adopted as policy citywide.

Traffic Reduction and Public Transit
Transportation Alternatives believes in a city where most people can live without owning an automobile. In fact, New York ranks the country’s lowest car ownership rates with more people using public transit here each day than the rest of the United States combined. T.A. wants New York City to strike a smarter balance for all road users--mandating a minimum amount of automobile traffic, encouraging the public health benefits of biking and walking, and investing in the efficiency of public transit.

d3

d3 is an organization committed to advancing innovative positions in architecture, art, and design by providing a collaborative environment for architects, artists, designers, and students from around the world. Our New York-based program of exhibitions, events, competitions, and publications is focused on generating dialogue and collaboration across geographic, ideological, and disciplinary boundaries in design and the built environment worldwide. d3 seeks to unearth new approaches to connecting, form, space, and materiality with innovative notions of interiority and exteriority at various scales.

Contest categories in Alternative Transportation Infrastructure Contest
· First Prize $3000 cash prize
· Second Prize $2000 cash prize
· Third Prize $1000 cash prize
· Special Mention Categories

website: http://www.d3space.org/closethegap/