Recent Streetsblog NYC posts about Buses

Buses and Atlantic Yards

By Aaron Naparstek | Nov 8, 2006 | No Comments

BrooklynSpeaks on Atlantic Yards and Buses: The Atlantic Yards project, despite sitting adjacent to the some of the best transit connections in the city, hasn’t been planned with transit in mind. A real transportation plan would look very different. It would push people away from driving cars that clog the streets by reducing parking on […]

Life on Crutches in NYC

By Glenn McAnanama | Oct 27, 2006 | 8 Comments

For the last month, since I broke my ankle, New York has ceased to be the same place for me. At least in terms of getting around the city, the landscape has been dramatically transformed. Week 1 was spent in relative isolation at my parents house on Staten Island where they were nice enough to […]

And the 2006 Pokey Award Goes to…

By Aaron Naparstek | Oct 24, 2006 | 1 Comment

Paul White of TransAlt and Gene Russianoff of Straphangers’ Campaign deliver the Golden Snail. The 14th Street crosstown bus wins this year’s Pokey Award for being New York City’s slowest bus line. This morning Straphangers’ Campaign and Transportation Alternatives handed the Golden Snail to the M14A for making its 12 noon trek across town at […]

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 […]

Thursday’s Transpo Conference: A Call for Reform

By Alec | Oct 17, 2006 | 8 Comments

While former Bogota Mayor Enrique Peñalosa and DOT Commissioner Iris Weinshall got most of the attention for their keynote speeches at last week’s transportation policy conference, much of the day’s real intellectual ferment took place in the five separate breakout sessions that convened before lunch. The groups were organized as follows: Subways and Commuter Rail […]

Beyond Thermoplast, Street Signs and Signal Timing

By Aaron Naparstek | Sep 26, 2006 | 21 Comments

Last week we asked the Department of Transportation why the agency had not followed through on making safety improvements on the Fifth Avenue bike lane in Brooklyn by end-of-summer. DOT responded with a statement saying that "Share the Road" signs had, in fact, been installed and that, as part of the new citywide bike safety […]

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