Recent Streetsblog NYC posts about London

Robin Chase: “The Web 2.0 of Transportation Technologies”

By Sarah Goodyear | Oct 15, 2007 | 23 Comments

Robin Chase is the co-founder and former CEO of Zipcar and the founder and CEO of GoLoco, a ride-sharing service that uses social networks like Facebook to connect people who want to carpool. A Harvard University Loeb Fellow, Chase is an authority on the use of wireless and mesh network technology as it applies to […]

Congestion Pricing, Hashed Out Over Pints

By Brad Aaron | Oct 11, 2007 | 10 Comments

It wasn’t your typical congestion pricing forum, but last night about 50 people got to hear the pros and cons of the Bloomberg plan debated in a relaxed, informal setting, with instructions from the moderators to keep drinking. The event, sponsored by the London-based Institution of Civil Engineers, brought together two proponents and two critics […]

Congestion Pricing Should be Attached to Parking Reform

By Aaron Naparstek | Oct 5, 2007 | 36 Comments

The daily scene on SoHo’s Crosby Street, jammed with illegally parked government employees. The Observer reported on Wednesday that Walter McCaffrey’s Committee to Keep New York City Congestion Tax Free recently solicited UCLA parking policy guru Donald Shoup to do a study of curbside parking policy in New York. Carolyn Konheim, a Brooklyn-based transportation consultant […]

Parking Revenue Declining, London Borough Lures Back Drivers

By Aaron Naparstek | Sep 11, 2007 | 7 Comments

The City of Westminster is one of 32 London boroughs, just west of the city center. If you think borough-level politics is messy in New York City, consider London, a city of 32 boroughs, each with its own local government. On a visit to interview Eric Manners, an urban planner working for the borough of […]

Famed Danish Urbanist Jan Gehl in Town to Consult on PlaNYC

By Alex Marshall | Aug 2, 2007 | 8 Comments

The Urbanist Musketeers: Alex Garvin, Jan Gehl and Fred Kent in Copenhagen, Denmark, Sept. 30, 2006. Jan Gehl, the famed Danish urbanist, is in New York City this week where, sources say, he has been hired as a consultant for Mayor Bloomberg’s PlaNYC program. At a presentation to the board of the Regional Plan Association […]

The London Model is Dead. Time to Look at Paris.

By Aaron Naparstek | Jul 18, 2007 | 13 Comments

David Haskell, executive director of the Forum for Urban Design, and organizer of last week’s New York Bike-Share Project demonstration in Soho, says it’s time for New York City to ditch the London model and take a closer look at the traffic-reduction techniques Paris has implemented without congestion pricing. An op/ed in today’s New York […]

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