Recent Streetsblog NYC posts about Buses

Street Films: Hell’s Kitchen Miracle Ticket

By Aaron Naparstek | Sep 8, 2006 | 6 Comments

Hell’s Kitchen Miracle TicketA Clarence Eckerson Street FilmRunning time: 1:13 – 3.59 MB, QuickTime Since we’ve been talking about traffic enforcement (or lack thereof), here is a quick Street Film that touches on the topic as well. In 2005, TOPP Founder and Executive Director Mark Gorton toured 9th Avenue with Hell’s Kitchen Neighborhood Association’s Christine Berthet to check out […]

Traffic Continues to Disappear in Paris

By Ethan Kent | Aug 11, 2006 | 4 Comments

In 2001, shortly after being elected the Mayor of Paris on a platform promising to "fight, with all the means at my disposal, against the harmful, ever-increasing and unacceptable hegemony of the automobile," Bertrand Delanoë began implementing a series of far-reaching transportation reforms throughout the City of Light. With New York City Department of Transportation Commissioner […]

Bus Stop. Hamburg, Germany

By Aaron Naparstek | Jul 12, 2006 | 3 Comments

What it looks like when a city decides that bus riders can and should have a first-class transportation system. Real-time bus schedule information: Detailed, up-to-date, thougtfully-designed timetables and route maps:

Streetfilms: The Defeat of the Mt. Hood Freeway

By Aaron Naparstek | Jul 5, 2006 | No Comments

The Defeat of the Mt. Hood Freeway A Clarence Eckerson Streetfilm Running time: 11:42, 28.21 MB, QuickTime In the midst of his reign has New York City’s master-builder, Robert Moses proposed building a network of massive expressways through the middle of Portland, Oregon’s inner-city core. One part of Moses’ plan was to replace a stretch […]

Untangling Traffic: Bloomberg’s Forgotten Promise

By Aaron Naparstek | Jun 19, 2006 | No Comments

On July 11, 2001, Republican mayoral candidate Michael Bloomberg issued a policy paper on traffic and transportation. The paper was called "Untangling Traffic" and it’s opening sentence exclaimed, "Traffic is a mess!" Written with the help of transportation consultant and former DOT Deputy Commissioner "Gridlock" Sam Schwartz, the paper went on to detail some of […]

Slow-Moving Bus Rapid Transit

By Aaron Naparstek | Apr 19, 2006 | 5 Comments

The Oil Drum has coverage of last night’s bus rapid transit forum on the Upper East Side: Despite the broad-based community support for faster, more efficient and higher quality bus services all that is being discussed by city/state/MTA officials is a STUDY that will examine 15 routes to pick JUST 5 in June 2007 and […]