Recent Streetsblog NYC posts about Commuting

Five Ways Colleges Are Coaxing Students Out of Their Cars

By Angie Schmitt | Feb 5, 2014 | No Comments

The University of Wisconsin-Madison provides bike valet at its football games. The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill supports free transit for everyone in the region. The University of California, Irvine launched a bike-share system in 2009, long before any major city in California had done so. American colleges and universities are leaders in […]

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Study: All Across America, Car Commuting Is Dropping

By Tanya Snyder | Dec 4, 2013 | No Comments

U.S. PIRG and the Frontier Group are on a mission to explore the downward trend in driving. In a series of reports, they point to evidence that it isn’t just a temporary blip, but a long-term shift in how Americans get around. Today, the two organizations released a new report, “Transportation in Transition: A Look at Changing Travel Patterns in […]

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Census: American Bike Commuting Up Nine Percent in 2012

By Tanya Snyder | Sep 19, 2013 | No Comments

Congratulations, America. We’re biking to work more than ever before. We’ve known for a while that Americans are driving less than they used to, even as the economy grows. And just about every quarter, the American Public Transportation Association delivers more stats about increasing transit ridership. Now the Census brings another measure of Americans’ shifting transportation […]

City Lays an Old Board Over Upper Manhattan Greenway Pit

By Brad Aaron | Aug 7, 2013 | 2 Comments

The Parks Department doesn’t know when a hole that opened up two months ago on the Hudson River Greenway will be repaired. A tipster sent us photos of the pit, located just north of 181st Street in Washington Heights, in June. These pictures were taken by the same reader about a week and a half […]

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Commuter Idyll Winner Jake Williams Tells His Dramatic Story of Salvation

By Tanya Snyder | May 10, 2013 | No Comments

When we saw that Washington’s news-traffic-weather radio station, WTOP, was holding a “Commuter Idle” contest for the worst commute in the DC area — and rewarding it with $1,000 in gas money — we couldn’t resist. We went looking for the best “Commuter Idyll” — the trips to work that made people happy, got them fresh […]

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Dreamy Routines: Some of Our Readers’ Best “Commuter Idylls”

By Tanya Snyder | May 9, 2013 | No Comments

Some of you have some fabulous commutes. Rather than watch the stress-filled minutes and hours tick by stuck in traffic, you go outside, get exercise, and connect with your community. I’ve had the pleasure of reading many of your commuter tales over the last few days, since we launched our Commuter Idyll contest. It’s our […]

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