Recent Streetsblog NYC posts about Traffic

“Traffic” Author Tom Vanderbilt on Leonard Lopate Today at Noon

By Aaron Naparstek | Jul 29, 2008 | No Comments

Author Tom Vanderbilt will be on Leonard Lopate at noon today, WNYC, 93.9 FM. Streetsbloggers will want to tune in. Vanderbilt takes all of the geeky and arcane transportation studies that we love to bandy about here on Streetsblog — induced demand, shared space, modal bias, you name it — he puts them together in […]

Wiki Wednesday: Vehicle-Miles Traveled

By Ben Fried | Jul 23, 2008 | 1 Comment

Until recently, VMT had been rising steeply in the U.S. In the second installment of our serialized tour through StreetsWiki, we turn to DianaD’s entry on Vehicle-Miles Traveled: Vehicle-Miles Traveled (VMT) is the total number of miles driven by all residential vehicles within a given time period and geographic area. We’re seeing more about VMT […]

Tom Vanderbilt Ponders Motorist Sociopathy

By Aaron Naparstek | Jul 18, 2008 | 14 Comments

Yesterday, at the end of our piece about the recent road rage incidents in usually-polite Portland and Seattle, we posed a question to Tom Vanderbilt, author of the forthcoming book, Traffic: Why We Drive the Way We Do and What It Says About Us. We asked: What is it about automobility that often seems to […]

High Gas Prices Won’t Cure Gridlock

By Charles Komanoff | Jul 3, 2008 | 19 Comments

It’s the New Math: a dollar-a-trip rise in the cost of fuel for a car trip to Manhattan is cutting traffic almost as much as Mayor Bloomberg’s eight-dollar toll plan would have done. Too good to be true, right? But that’s the slant of the front-page headline in today’s Times, "Politics Failed, but Fuel Prices […]

Rider Report: Select Bus Service Shaves Trip Time

By Brad Aaron | Jul 3, 2008 | 16 Comments

Three days after the debut of Bx12 Select Bus Service, Bronx resident and Tri-State Transportation Campaign Associate Director Veronica Vanterpool rode the route from Co-op City to Inwood. On Mobilizing the Region, she reports that riders are becoming accustomed to the pre-payment system and rear-door boarding, with the help of bus drivers and New York […]

City Council Signs Off on 400-Car Garage in Hell’s Kitchen

By Ben Fried | Jun 30, 2008 | 4 Comments

Last week, the New York City Council approved a special permit granting developer Glenwood Management the right to build a 400-car parking garage at 310-328 West 38th Street. The decision was not unexpected, as the permit had already been approved by the City Planning Commission earlier this month. The garage, situated near the mouth of […]

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