Recent Streetsblog NYC posts about Traffic

Albany’s Choice… or Ours

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Thank Albany. By segmenting the 30-35 percent transit fare increase into three stages, the legislature has opened the door for a broad-based campaign to put an end to fare hikes and institute genuine transportation reform. Hike 1, the 10-12 percent rise in subway, bus and rail fares set to take effect within a month, is […]

Hello MTA Bailout, So Long Truck Tsunami?

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The New Jersey "trucker’s special." Graphic: Sam Schwartz. Sheldon Silver’s partial endorsement of the Ravitch Commission’s MTA rescue plan [PDF], which includes East and Harlem River bridge tolls, offers the best political hope in years for reducing the daily truck tsunami pulverizing downtown Brooklyn and Lower Manhattan. The truck inundation is due to the great […]