Recent Streetsblog NYC posts about Commuting

Pratt Center Maps the Urgent Need for Better Transit in Low-Income Areas

By Noah Kazis | Oct 13, 2010 | 7 Comments

Last week’s MTA fare hikes marked the latest setback in a string of bad news for New York City transit riders. But with the launch of Select Bus Service on the East Side of Manhattan this week, some advocates are looking ahead to further opportunities to enhance the city’s surface transit network. The Pratt Center […]

Report: Want to Ease Commuter Pain? Highways and Sprawl Won’t Help

By Noah Kazis | Sep 29, 2010 | 11 Comments

Imagine two drivers leaving downtown to head home. Each of them sits in traffic for the first ten miles of the commute but at that point, their paths diverge. The first one has reached home. The second has another twenty miles to drive, though luckily for her, the roads are clear and congestion doesn’t slow […]

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Car-Dependent States Hit Hardest by Obesity Epidemic

By Noah Kazis | Jul 8, 2010 | No Comments

States where more people drive to work face an even worse obesity crisis. Graphic: Noah Kazis and Carly Clark Transportation is a public health issue. As profiled in the recently released report from the Trust for America’s Health, "F as in Fat," obesity rates continue to rise across the nation, increasing the risk of serious […]

Bike to Work Day Finale: Why the Bronx Commutes By Bike

By Ben Fried | May 21, 2010 | 3 Comments

Streetfilms’ Robin Urban Smith was up on the Grand Concourse this morning for one of New York’s Bike to Work Day traditions — the Bronx Borough President’s ride from Poe Park down to Lou Gehrig Plaza. Watch and see all the different answers you get when you ask people, "Why do you bike to work?" […]

Bike to Work Day Open Thread

By Ben Fried | May 21, 2010 | 25 Comments

How was your ride to work today? Bike traffic on the Manhattan Bridge seemed heavier than usual. After I took a few pictures of the Sands Street bike path, I got onto the bridge approach with a platoon of about a dozen people on bikes. At the end of the bridge, an apple from the […]

Bike to Work Day Preview: Council Member Jimmy Van Bramer Rides Again

By Ben Fried | May 20, 2010 | 2 Comments

I think Al Roker’s Brompton ride to victory last week pretty much sealed the deal: Bike to Work Day has never been bigger. In San Francisco, where they observed the occasion last week, bikes accounted for 75 percent of morning rush hour traffic on Market Street, and most of the legislative and executive branches of […]

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