Noah Budnick - Deputy Director, Transportation Alternatives

Transportation Alternatives (T.A.) Deputy Director, Noah Budnick.

As Transportation Alternatives (T.A.) Deputy Director, Noah Budnick oversees and coordinates T.A.’s advocacy and media campaigns to improve and increase walking and biking in New York City.  Mr. Budnick is T.A.’s senior advocate and has worked with scores of New York City community organizations and elected and government officials to make walking and cycling safer and easier in New York City.

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Noah works with T.A.’s executive director, Paul Steely White, and the organization’s seventeen person staff to craft organizing, political and media strategies to educate and build support among diverse coalitions of community groups and businesses and target key decision makers to act on desired changes to our city’s streets, sidewalks, parks and other transportation networks and public spaces.

Noah directs T.A.’s campaigns to win biking and walking improvements, to reclaim public space for pedestrians, bicyclists and mass transit, to reform government transportation and street safety policy to discourage driving and prioritize biking, walking and transit use ahead of private motor vehicles and to win more funding for biking and walking projects in New York City. He is the point person on campaigns to win congestion pricing and increase federal transportation funding to New York City and advises T.A. staff on their myriad campaigns and communications strategies.

Noah’s on the steering committee of the Campaign for New York’s Future, a coalition of over 150 advocacy, civic, religious, business and community groups working to support PlaNYC and congestion pricing. He played a key roll in building support and providing input for the City's recently released study of cyclist injuries and fatalities. After 9/11, Noah played an instrumental role forging a new City policy to preserve bicycle and pedestrian access to bridges and greenway paths during terrorist alerts.

Noah is also the chair of the board of directors of the Thunderhead Alliance, the national coalition of state and local bicycle and pedestrian advocacy groups, a board member of the Brooklyn Greenway Initiative, a founding member of Greene Acres Community Garden in Brooklyn and serves on the board of directors of the City Reliquary Museum and Civic Organization. Before working at T.A., Noah was the Administrative Director at the Institute for Transportation and Development Policy, where he was a specialist in bicycle transportation in developing countries. He has a B.A. in anthropology from the Colorado College.