Recent Streetsblog NYC posts about Traffic

Albany Gives the Go-Ahead to Gansevoort Waste Transfer Station

By Ben Fried | Jun 25, 2008 | 4 Comments

State lawmakers reached an agreement yesterday allowing the city to move forward with plans for a recycling transfer station on Manhattan’s Gansevoort peninsula near 14th Street. The step may do more to reduce traffic than any other measure passed during the latest legislative session, which wrapped up this morning. The Gansevoort station is part of […]

T.A.: Car-Free Central Park Would Ease Neighborhood Congestion

By Brad Aaron | Jun 12, 2008 | 24 Comments

A study released this week by Transportation Alternatives undercuts the claim that closing Central Park’s loop drive to cars would increase traffic on the streets of Harlem. To the contrary, findings indicate that loop entrances on 110th street at Malcolm X and Adam Clayton Powell Boulevards "act as traffic magnets," drawing vehicles onto neighborhood streets […]

City Planning Commission Approves 400-Car Garage for Hell’s Kitchen

By Ben Fried | Jun 12, 2008 | 5 Comments

Two weeks ago Streetsblog reported on the glut of public parking garages being built in Hell’s Kitchen, which threatens to worsen traffic conditions in one of New York’s most congested neighborhoods. The City Planning Commission could have set a precedent last Friday by denying a developer’s request to build a 400-car public garage as part […]

The Windshield Perspective, Same As It Ever Was

By Ben Fried | Jun 6, 2008 | 9 Comments

From the way back machine comes this remarkable essay, "The Last Traffic Jam," about the blind spots that plague the motoring mentality. The anonymous author, writing for Time Magazine in 1947, delivers observations about road rage and the endemic violence of driving that still apply today. The most striking passage, perhaps, is the writer’s take […]

Bike, Transit or Car: Which Is the Fastest Commute?

By Brad Aaron | May 28, 2008 | 36 Comments

Tomorrow Transportation Alternatives will hold the 7th Annual Great NYC Commuter Race. Three contestants — traveling by bike, transit and car — will see who has the quickest commute from Fort Greene in Brooklyn to Manhattan’s Union Square. Jamie Favaro, a social worker, plans to ride her bike to victory, "Not only does biking save […]

Do Alternate Side Parking Rules Increase Traffic Congestion?

By Aaron Naparstek | May 21, 2008 | 40 Comments

Our regular babysitter Laura, an R train commuter, is out of town this week. Nicole, the woman providing us with back-up nanny service for our 1-year-old, travels to our house, in Park Slope, in a mini-van. This morning she noted, quite happily, that there was so little traffic on her way from Ocean Parkway […]

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