Recent Streetsblog NYC posts about Bus Rapid Transit

Pedestrian Interference

By Aaron Naparstek | Jan 26, 2007 | 13 Comments

Left to right: New York City Department of Transportation Deputy Commissioner/Senior Policy Advisor David Woloch, Commissioner Iris Weinshall, a procurement and technical servicea aide and City Councilmembers John Liu and Gale Brewer. As I saw it, the three big bullet points to come out of yesterday’s City Council Transportation Committee hearing on Intro. 199, […]

DOT Announces Five Bus Rapid Transit Corridors

By Aaron Naparstek | Oct 24, 2006 | 33 Comments

Sketches from an internal BRT Study depicting the three general types of stations: A) Major Station: Includes extended canopy with windscreens and seating. Icon and full platform pavement treatment. B) Standard Station: Shelter with Icon and full platform pavement treatment. C) Minimum Station: For locations with narrow sidewalks: Icon and platform edge strip only. Bigger image […]

The Iris Weinshall Renaissance

By Aaron Naparstek | Oct 13, 2006 | 10 Comments

DOT Commissioner Iris Weinshall’s speech was, for many long-time Livable Streets advocates, the single most remarkable aspect of yesterday’s Manhattan Transportation Policy Conference. As Jon Orcutt at TSTC noted, Weinshall’s speech "laid out an array of measures to improve New York’s pedestrian and bicycling environments, soften the quality of life impacts of heavy traffic, and […]

Live-Blogging the Manhattan Transpo Policy Conference

By Aaron Naparstek | Oct 12, 2006 | 19 Comments

I’m up at Columbia University covering Borough President Stringer’s Transportation Policy Conference, live: 10:40 am: Enrique Peñalosa, the former mayor of Bogotá, Colombia is the keynote speaker. In only one three-year term as Mayor, Penalosa revolutionized the transportation system and public spaces of his city of 7 million (Mayors only get one term in office […]

NY1: Why is Bloomberg So Weak on Transportation?

By Aaron Naparstek | Aug 16, 2006 | 2 Comments

Fifty-nine percent of New Yorkers say Mayor Bloomberg is doing a poor-to-fair job on transportation. Jon Orcutt, Executive Director of the Tri-State Transportation Campaign was on New York 1’s "In Transit" this weekend discussing the results of a survey showing that most New Yorkers are unhappy with Mayor Bloomberg’s job on transportation. Click here to see the video. […]

European Vacation

By Aaron Naparstek | Aug 10, 2006 | 3 Comments

DOT Commissioner Iris Weinshall’s two week European vacation has gotten off to a lousy start. NPR is reporting that Weinshall, her husband, Senator Chuck Schumer, and their two daughters were stuck in Heathrow Airport for hours after yesterday’s terrorism arrests. The Commissioner and her family were planning on visiting Amsterdam and Paris but have decided to stay […]

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