Recent Streetsblog NYC posts about Commuting

Rage-Free Rush Hour in Utrecht

By Brad Aaron | May 17, 2010 | 19 Comments

From Infrastructurist by way of Buzzfeed comes this video of bike commuters in Utrecht. With a population of around 300,000, Utrecht is the fourth largest city in the Netherlands, and has a 33 percent bike mode share. According to the write-up accompanying the YouTube post, this intersection handles "no less than" 18,000 bicycles and 2,500 […]

Al Roker Bikes to Victory in 2010 Commuter Race

By Ben Fried | May 14, 2010 | 14 Comments

This morning, the hosts of the Today Show played this segment for their 5.4 million viewers. It’s this year’s edition of Transportation Alternatives’ annual Great Commuter Race, where cyclist, transit rider, and motorist vie to see who gets to work first. TA’s Wiley Norvell emailed us to explain how the race made the transition to […]

Transit Check: Most New Yorkers Take Green Modes to Work

By Charles Komanoff | May 10, 2010 | 3 Comments

Everyone knows that public transit, not auto travel, is New York City’s transportation workhorse. Thus it was a little unsettling to get halfway through the ostensibly transit-friendly story in today’s Times, "Take a Taxicab to Work? More New Yorkers Walk," and read that mass transit doesn’t even account for half of the city’s commuting. The […]

Building an App to Help Neighbors Ride Together

By Noah Kazis | Mar 5, 2010 | 5 Comments

Of all the ways to improve your bike commute, riding with a friend might be the simplest. Not only do you have someone to talk to at red lights, you also become more visible and therefore more safe. With that in mind, Transportation Alternatives is working on a new tech solution called Bike Buddy to […]

Congestion Pricing Can Help Save Working NYC Families $2,300 Per Year

By Noah Kazis | Feb 16, 2010 | 2 Comments

Without congestion pricing, fare hikes will hit New York’s many transit-using families hard. Image: Ed Yourdon via Flickr. Without bold action from legislators to fund transit, middle-class New York families will have to spend $2,300 more per year to get around the city even as the quality of the service they’re paying for declines, according […]

High Hopes — And Higher Standards — for Bloomberg 3.0

By Joan Byron | Nov 17, 2009 | 22 Comments

Our series on the next four years of NYC transportation policy continues with today’s essay from Joan Byron, Director of the Pratt Center for Community Development’s Sustainability and Environmental Justice Initiative. The Rudin Center for Transportation Policy recognized Byron’s work at the Pratt Center with the 2009 Civic Leadership Award. Read previous entries in this […]

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