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The Power of Moses: Please Wield Responsibly

By Sarah Goodyear | | 2 Comments
An op-ed piece by Eleanor Randolph in today’s New York Times finds yet another lesson in the current re-examination of Robert Moses’s legacy. Randolph looks at the enormously powerful entities, usually known as authorities, that Moses left behind: "public-private hybrid[s] that can collect fees, take on debt and build things with little government interference." Randolph […]

Sustainable Transportation for NYC: How to Make it Happen

By Sarah Goodyear | | 2 Comments
Today on Gotham Gazette, Bruce Schaller outlines how transportation policy could fit in to Mayor Bloomberg’s sustainability initiative for 2030. The piece merits a full read, but Schaller frames his argument in terms of three big ideas: [F]ix the skewed economic incentives to drive, implement targeted transit improvements throughout the city, and make more efficient […]

The Seed of a Revolution in Red Hook

By Ethan Kent | | 6 Comments
How can we get drivers to respect the communities they are driving though? How can we make traffic slow down if we can’t change the design of the street or the timing of the lights? How can a community reclaim its neighborhood streets? For a few short hours last weekend, Red Hook, Brooklyn, had an […]

Congestion Tops Citizens’ PlaNYC 2030 Concerns

By Sarah Goodyear | | 1 Comment
The second phase of Mayor Bloomberg’s PlaNYC 2030 outreach campaign, which has been soliciting feedback from the public through meetings with community leaders and on PlaNYC’s website, has been completed, and the word is in: People in New York want to do something about traffic congestion. So far, the website has received 52,000 visits from […]

Robert Moses’s Fundamental Misunderstanding

By Jason Varone | | 30 Comments
In the latest issue of the Regional Plan Association’s Spotlight on the Region newsletter, editor Alex Marshall has an outstanding essay responding to the recent burst of Robert Moses revisionism. An excerpt:   It all comes down to capacity. Like many people of his generation, I’m convinced, Moses essentially didn’t understand the different capabilities of […]
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