Recent Streetsblog NYC posts about Economics

What’s Good for Green Transport Is Good for Business in the East Village

By Noah Kazis | Jun 1, 2010 | 6 Comments

Second Avenue shoppers are far more likely to arrive via bus, bike, or foot than private car. Photo: akuban/Flickr Wherever parking spaces are replaced with infrastructure for sustainable transportation, you can usually find a local merchant yelling about how it will destroy his livelihood. With the redesign of First and Second Avenue bringing safer biking […]

Sustainable Transport Saves New Yorkers $19 Billion Per Year

By Noah Kazis | Apr 21, 2010 | 11 Comments

New York City residents save at least $19 billion each year by driving less than other Americans, according to a new report from the non-profit CEOs for Cities. "New York City’s Green Dividend" [PDF] makes the case that investing in transit, walking, and cycling isn’t just better for the environment, it’s great for our wallets […]

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What Happened to the Proposed “Transportation Tax” on Wall Street?

By Elana Schor | Apr 5, 2010 | No Comments

For several weeks last fall, as members of the House infrastructure committee pushed for passage of a new six-year federal transportation bill as a strategy to rouse the economy from recession, a proposal to pay for the legislation with a small tax on oil futures trades attracted a healthy crop of Democratic cosponsors and some […]

Wanted: Crowd-Sourced Transportation Analysis

By Charles Komanoff | Oct 16, 2009 | 12 Comments

My recent post refuting David Owen’s attack on congestion pricing ignited a long, rich thread. Here’s one comment, from "Jonathan," that struck a nerve: [A] cordon-pricing plan … which doesn’t charge center-city residents could result in an increase in those residents’ automobile use. If the streets are free of outer-borough traffic, more of my Manhattan […]

How Much Would Most People Pay For a Shorter Commute?

By Elana Schor | Sep 10, 2009 | 3 Comments

Data: IBM’s CPI As Washington conventional wisdom has it, raising gas taxes or creating a vehicle miles traveled tax to pay for transportation is impossible during the current recession. After all, who would want to squeeze cash-strapped commuters during tough economic times? As it turns out, the public is very willing to pay for the […]

How to Judge “Cash for Clunkers”

By Ryan Avent | Aug 4, 2009 | 7 Comments

(Photo: NYT) At this point, it’s difficult to know exactly what the government’s "cash for clunkers" program is supposed to accomplish. Claims about its economic and environmental benefits are increasingly detached from reality, and the chief advantage of the program would seem to be that it "worked," in the sense that it was popular among […]

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