Recent Streetsblog NYC posts about Traffic

Streetfilm: Lessons from L.A.

By Damien Newton | May 1, 2008 | 1 Comment

Never let it be said that transportation reform advocates don’t have a sense of humor. How else can you explain the decision to take one of Los Angeles’ best known pedestrian advocates and interview her while driving around the Hollywoods at rush hour on a Friday night? Streetfilms’ Nicholas Whitaker took a backseat, rush hour […]

Survey Finds New Yorkers Anxious About Congestion and Safety

By Brad Aaron | Apr 28, 2008 | 13 Comments

Following a three day period that saw three pedestrian fatalities in Brooklyn — preceded by two cyclist deaths in Manhattan one week earlier — the Citizens Committee for New York City has released its annual "Speak Out New York" survey, citing pedestrian safety as one of two top concerns of city residents. The number one […]

How Paris is Beating Traffic Without Congestion Pricing

By Ben Fried | Apr 22, 2008 | 31 Comments

Biking by the Seine during car-free hours on the Georges Pompidou Expressway. The mayor of a global metropolis, elected to his first term in 2001, set out to reduce driving and promote greener modes of transportation in his city. Congestion pricing turned out to be unfeasible, because influential political forces in the suburbs believed, rightly […]

Today the Périphérique. Tomorrow the FDR.

By Ben Fried | Apr 10, 2008 | 3 Comments

Here’s an idea to file away for PARK(ing) Day 2008. In this video (which starts to pick up after the :45 mark), Paris Deputy Mayor Denis Baupin narrates Operation "Carré Vert" ("Green Square"), an intervention in which activists re-allocate road space on the Périphérique — the highway that encircles the city — in a matter […]

Sadik-Khan: What We Lose Without Congestion Pricing [Updated]

By Ben Fried | Mar 24, 2008 | 9 Comments

Ben Fried reports live from the City Council congestion pricing hearing, underway at City Hall: According to Transportation Commissioner Janette Sadik-Khan, without congestion pricing: Western Queens will not see a 39% reduction in its most severe traffic jams and a 6.1 percent reduction in total traffic; will not get new bus routes from Middle Village […]

Traffic Jam on a Petri Dish

By Aaron Naparstek | Mar 11, 2008 | 3 Comments

This one comes to Streetsblog via the Sightline Institute’s Daily Score, a blog covering environmental issues in the Pacific Northwest. Why do traffic jams materialize for no apparent reason? In an effort to answer that question, here’s a surprisingly simple experiment cooked up in Japan by the University of Nagoya’s "Mathematical Society of Traffic Flow:" […]

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