Recent Streetsblog NYC posts about Traffic

West Side Study Offers Lots of Little Improvements, No Transformations

By Noah Kazis | Apr 27, 2012 | 2 Comments

The Department of Transportation has completed a multi-year transportation study of the Upper West Side, and Wednesday night the agency walked local residents through the many proposed changes [PDF]. The suggestions for the area between 55th and 86th Streets, west of Central Park, include a number of valuable intersection-level improvements to pedestrian safety, but left […]

Flushing Transpo Project Boosted Safety While Curbing Congestion

By Noah Kazis | Mar 5, 2012 | 7 Comments

It might not be as bold or attention-grabbing as the overhaul of Times Square and Herald Square, but a set of changes made to New York City’s third-busiest pedestrian intersection is having its own quiet success. In Downtown Flushing, a 2010 project that expanded sidewalks, daylighted dangerous intersections, and introduced numerous turn restrictions is boosting […]

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LOS and Travel Projections: The Wrong Tools for Planning Our Streets

By Gary Toth | Feb 7, 2012 | No Comments

Gary Toth is director of transportation initiatives at Project for Public Spaces. This post first appeared on PPS’s Placemaking Blog. Would you use a rototiller to get rid of weeds in a flowerbed? Of course not. You might solve your immediate goal of uprooting the weeds — but oh, my, the collateral damage that you […]

Komanoff: 2,000 New Cabs Will Add as Much Traffic as 80,000 Private Cars

By Ben Fried | Jan 20, 2012 | 20 Comments

Transportation analyst and Streetsblog contributor Charles Komanoff is out with a piece in Reuters today that examines the traffic impacts of adding 2,000 new yellow taxis to Manhattan streets, and it’s not pretty. As part of the grand bargain struck between Mayor Michael Bloomberg and Governor Andrew Cuomo that will create a new class of […]

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TTI: Mass Transit Saved Drivers 45.4 Million Hours Last Year

By Tanya Snyder | Sep 27, 2011 | No Comments

Last year, the D.C. region ran away with the dubious honor of Most Congested Metro Area. D.C. area drivers wasted 74 hours and 37 gallons of fuel sitting in traffic last year, which would have cost about $100 over the course of the year. But the gasoline cost is just the tip of the iceberg. According […]

Guess Who Has a Lot to Lose From an MTA Meltdown: Drivers

By Charles Komanoff | Aug 1, 2011 | 8 Comments

Can you spot the flaw in this excerpt from the New York Times’ Saturday backgrounder on MTA chief Jay Walder’s pending departure for Hong Kong? [T]he future of New York’s cash-poor transit system, depended on by millions of riders a day, has now fallen directly to Mr. Cuomo, who must pick a successor. The passage […]

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