Recent Streetsblog NYC posts about Schools

Motorists Still Pose the Biggest Danger to NYC School Kids

By Brad Aaron | Sep 10, 2013 | 3 Comments

With the new school year in session, an analysis of traffic injury numbers by WNYC shows that NYPD and DOT need to step up on enforcement and engineering improvements to prevent motorists from hurting kids. Year after year, traffic crashes rank as the leading cause of injury-related death for children in NYC. Drawing on state DMV data […]

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Streetfacts #4: Children Have Lost the Freedom to Roam

By Clarence Eckerson Jr. | May 10, 2013 | No Comments

Think of this Streetfacts chapter as a PSA about how, in just a few generations, we have tightly restricted American kids’ freedom to roam, play, and become self-sufficient. The percentage of children walking and bicycling to school has plummeted from almost 50 percent in 1969 to about 13 percent today. Although distance from school is often cited […]

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Transport U: CU-Boulder Catches the Bus to Savings

By Angie Schmitt | Apr 24, 2013 | No Comments

This is the third installment in Streetsblog’s series on transportation demand management at American colleges and universities. Part one gave an overview of TDM techniques that schools employ, part two profiled Stanford, and part three looked at MIT. Sustainability is part of the ethos in Boulder, where there’s a joke that there are more bikes than people. And the University of […]

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Transport U: Mode Shift at MIT

By Angie Schmitt | Apr 18, 2013 | No Comments

This is the third installment in Streetsblog’s series on transportation demand management at American colleges and universities. Part one gave an overview of TDM techniques that schools employ, and part two profiled Stanford’s TDM programs. The Massachusetts Institute of Technology has a long track record of trying to minimize traffic. The Institute has run a formal transportation […]

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Transport U: Stanford Turns Green Commuting Into Greenbacks

By Angie Schmitt | Apr 17, 2013 | No Comments

This is the second installment in Streetsblog’s series on transportation demand management at American colleges and universities. Part one gave an overview of TDM techniques that schools employ. This post looks at how Stanford University has used TDM to reduce driving and realize huge savings in the process. Stanford graduate engineering student Matthew Haith made […]

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Transport U: Colleges Save Millions By Embracing Policies to Reduce Driving

By Angie Schmitt | Apr 16, 2013 | No Comments

Jeffrey Tumlin was managing transportation programs at Stanford in the mid-1990s, when he made an important finding: It was cheaper for the university to pay people not to drive than to build new parking structures. Offering employees just $90 a year not to drive to campus was enough to entice many of them to use […]

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