Recent Streetsblog NYC posts about Commuting

Hillary Feels Staten Island’s Pain on Traffic

By Aaron Naparstek | | 4 Comments
While transportation issues are clearly not very high up on Mayor Bloomberg’s agenda, at least one New York elected official is acknowledging that the city has major traffic problems in need of big solutions. At last week’s Staten Island Chamber of Commerce breakfast, Clinton focused almost exclusively on transportation issues, according to the Advance: From scorning Staten […]

Cyclists Rally at City Hall

By Aaron Naparstek | | 2 Comments
Call on Mayor Bloomberg to "take control" of city streets. Almost exactly one year ago, New York City cyclists rallied on the steps of City Hall, mourning the deaths of four of their own and demanding that Mayor Bloomberg take action to make the city’s streets safer for bike commuting. This morning, in what is […]

Brooklyn Traffic

By Aaron Naparstek | | 6 Comments
A correspondent sends in this photo of the morning commute on Bergen Street in Boerum Hill, Brooklyn. Moments before snapping it the photographer says he was "stopped at a light with six cyclists, all of whom looked at each other and smiled as if to say, ‘any more of us and we’ll need a permit!’" […]

Measuring Street Performance

By Aaron Naparstek | | 4 Comments
Council member Gale Brewer of Manhattan’s Upper West Side has introduced a new piece of legislation that would compel New York City’s Department of Transportation to completely re-conceive of the way it measures and evaluates its own performance and the performance of the city’s streets. Currently, DOT’s metrics are set up mainly to measure the […]