Recent Streetsblog NYC posts about Economics

Chamber of Commerce: Empty Asphalt = Good Transportation Performance

By Tanya Snyder | Jul 25, 2011 | No Comments

The Chamber of Commerce released its annual Transportation Performance Index (TPI) last week [PDF], and you can tell it’s due for a total overhaul, because according to the Index, recession-battered 2009 was a banner year for transportation performance. Using 2009 data, the Chamber, a powerful lobbying group that represents millions of American businesses, determined that […]

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The Once and Future Auto Bailouts

By Catherine Lutz and Anne Lutz Fernandez | Jul 6, 2011 | No Comments

You’d think the Obama campaign had confused Michigan and Ohio with Iowa and New Hampshire. As his 2012 Republican challengers flooded early primary states last month, the President instead headed to where he could stand beside beaming auto executives and watch proud workers toiling on once-idle assembly lines. The Obama administration and the industry have […]

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Transpo’s Losses in First Round of Spending Cuts Look Worse Than They Are

By Tanya Snyder | Mar 7, 2011 | No Comments

The two houses of Congress were so much at odds over the Republicans’ proposed spending cuts that they needed two more weeks to bicker about it. So last week, they pushed off a little longer final passage of the budget for a fiscal year that started five months ago. But in order to even pass […]

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Get Rich While Reducing Emissions: Smart Growth Keeps Looking Smarter

By Tanya Snyder | Jan 21, 2011 | No Comments

Just when you may have been looking for ways to counter that Pew report which poo-pooed the environmental impacts of transit and smart growth, here’s more evidence that reducing driving has an essential role to play in meeting economic and environmental goals: A new report from the Center for Clean Air Policy concludes that compact […]

Land Use Process Likely Safe in Charter Revision, But Major Issues Simmer

By Noah Kazis | Jun 25, 2010 | 1 Comment

Former Staten Island Council Member Stephen Fiala defends the role of borough presidents in land use decision-making. Image: SI Advance. The city’s Charter Revision Commission held its fifth issue forum last night, discussing the city’s complex land use process. Based on the commentary of a panel of expert witnesses, a major revision of the city’s […]

New Domino Drops 266 Parking Spaces. How Low Can It Go?

By Noah Kazis | Jun 14, 2010 | 17 Comments

Local activists have made Williamsburg’s New Domino a little less auto-centric. Image: The New Domino How few parking spaces should be attached to new developments to make New York a more sustainable city? That’s the big question for developments like Brooklyn’s New Domino, the huge project slated for the Williamsburg waterfront where developers originally proposed […]

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