Recent Streetsblog NYC posts about Events

Cities worldwide are embracing new ideas about mass transit, congestion pricing, parking, public squares, mixed used development, and more, yet New York City’s transportation policies often seem as though they are stuck in the 1960s. But the sustainable transportation movement in New York City is alive in Streetsblog, StreetFilms, Transportation Alternatives, the Municipal Art Society, […]

The traffic engineers conducting the Brooklyn Bridge Park Transportation and Access Study will present their preliminary findings at this public meeting. The study, which included important public input, reviewed transit options to-and-from the park such as bicycle/pedestrian improvements, bus route modifications and vertical connections. The Downtown Brooklyn Waterfront LDC is a community-based local development corporation created […]

The American Planning Association New York Metro Chapter‘s Transportation Committee presents … Taxi Technology A talk by Gary Roth of the New York City Taxi & Limousine Commission By the end of the year, all of NYC’s 13,000 yellow cabs must accept credit cards and also contain a GPS unit. In order to ensure that […]

CUNY Institute for Urban Systems presents … Personal Mobilities, Contemporary Cities, and Urban Life A visiting scholar seminar by Dr. Aharon Kellerman, Professor Emeritus of Geography, University of Haifa; President-Designate of the new Academic College for Israel In his most recent book, Aharon Kellerman studies contemporary cities and their residents from the perspective of the […]

NYU Wagner Rudin Center for Transportation Policy and Management and CUNY Institute for Urban Systems present … Hyper Motorization in China: Is There No Way Back? A talk by Dr. Lee Schipper, Director of Research, EMBARQ – The World Resources Institute Center for Sustainable Transport. By any definition, China’s urban transport is becoming less sustainable. […]

The New York Metropolitan Transportation Council presents … Promoting Walking and Cycling to Improve Public Health: Lessons from Europe Remarks by Dr. John Pucher, Bloustein School of Planning and Public Policy, Rutgers University Prof. Pucher will examine a range of public health impacts of our urban transport systems. He argues that the current car-dependence of […]