Recent Streetsblog NYC posts about Commuting

In Rochester, nearly a third of bus commuters have to spend at least an hour to get to work. Photo: Pete Nabozny via Reconnect Rochester

How Job Sprawl Robs People of Time, Money, and Economic Opportunity

By Angie Schmitt | Dec 19, 2016 | No Comments

What’s the cost of a long commute? If you’re struggling to make ends meet, spending hours each day just to get to work not only costs you time, it can also be a major barrier to economic mobility.

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What the Equality of Opportunity Project Actually Says About Commuting

By Sarah Jo Peterson | Oct 10, 2016 | No Comments

With their powerful results, the studies coming out of the Equality of Opportunity Project, led by Raj Chetty and Nathaniel Hendren, have become an important touchstone for journalists and transportation policy advisers. In their 2014 [PDF] and 2015 [PDF] studies, Chetty and Hendren show that place matters for low-income families. When low-income families have the […]

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Where Car Commuting Is Shrinking — And Where It’s Not

By Angie Schmitt | Sep 16, 2016 | No Comments

Where are Americans making the shift away from driving to work? Crunching newly-released Census data, Yonah Freemark looked at how commute travel is changing in different cities and regions. In general, car commuting in major metro areas declined between 2005 and 2015, but the shift was greater than a couple of percentage points in only a few […]

Car-Free Day Doesn’t Mean Much Without New Policies to Reduce Traffic

By Ben Fried | Apr 28, 2016 | 16 Comments

New York City is America’s car-free capital, home to eight and half million people, most of whom get around without owning a car. When so many of us already live car-free, what more can come out of an event like last Friday’s Car-Free Day? There are basically two ways an awareness-raising event like Car-Free Day can go. It can […]

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Explore National Transportation Change Trends by Age Group

By Daniel Hertz | Mar 4, 2016 | No Comments

Cross-posted from City Observatory In some ways, the urban renaissance of the last decade or two has been quite dramatic. Downtown or downtown-adjacent neighborhoods in cities around the country have seen rapid investments, demographic change, and growth in amenities and jobs. Even mayors in places with a reputation for car dependence, like Nashville and Indianapolis, are […]

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Congress Expected to Level Tax Benefit for Transit and Car Commuters

By Angie Schmitt | Dec 16, 2015 | No Comments

A federal policy that has encouraged Americans to drive to work instead of taking the bus or the train won’t tilt the playing field toward car commuters so much. A bill that extends provisions of the tax code will permanently set the maximum transit commuter tax benefit at the same level car commuters get for parking expenses. Both classes of commuters can now […]

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