Recent Streetsblog NYC posts about Commuting

Google Staff Get On Their Bikes

By Jason Varone | Mar 23, 2007 | 7 Comments

The Guardian reports: Google is improving its green credentials by offering all of its employees a free bike to ride to work. The bikes, manufactured by Raleigh Europe, will be offered to around 2,000 permanent employees of the search engine giant in Europe, the Middle East and Africa. All of the bikes – plus free […]

Where Do Manhattan Auto Commuters Come From?

By Aaron Naparstek | Dec 8, 2006 | 26 Comments

Bruce Schaller’s studies continue to give New York City policymakers a much more detailed idea of who commutes into Manhattan’s Central Business District each day, where they came from and what they are doing once they get there (PDF file). Towards that end, his new Manhattan Institute study, Battling Traffic: What New Yorkers Think About Road Pricing, offers […]

Auto Insurance Break for Rail Commuters

By Aaron Donovan | Nov 30, 2006 | 10 Comments

File this under the Duh category: New Jersey Skylands Insurance Companies has unveiled a promotion that highlights what it says is a first-of-a-kind discount for New Jersey drivers who regularly commute to work via mass transit — a rate discount of up to 10 percent. It is great to see that insurance companies are doing […]

The Cost of Sprawl on Low-Income Families

By Aaron Donovan | Oct 17, 2006 | 9 Comments

Via the Manhattan Institute’s new blog, Streetsblog learns of a pdf-formatted report entitled A Heavy Load: The Combined Housing and Transportation Burdens of Working Famillies, which looks at the housing and transportation expenses paid by lower income families in a number of cities. The report, published by the Center for Housing Policy, a K Street […]

DOT’s Missed Opportunity on the Manhattan Bridge

By Aaron Naparstek | Oct 16, 2006 | 13 Comments

On Friday, Department of Transportation Commissioner Iris Weinshall stood up in front of 600 people at Borough President Stringer’s Transportation Policy Conference and said that her agency was serious about reducing car use in New York City. It was a great policy speech. Then on Sunday morning I flipped on the radio and heard that […]

The New Business Cycle

By Aaron Naparstek | Oct 6, 2006 | 7 Comments

The Citizen commuter bicycle from Breezer. I think we can safely count this among the day’s major events. Today’s Wall Street Journal is running a lengthy piece on the growing trend of bicycle manufacturers making bikes for people to use as "actual transportation." After decades of pushing models designed for recreation, from full-suspension mountain bikes to ever-faster […]

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