Recent Streetsblog NYC posts about Traffic

Congestion Tops Citizens’ PlaNYC 2030 Concerns

By Sarah Goodyear | Feb 9, 2007 | 1 Comment

The second phase of Mayor Bloomberg’s PlaNYC 2030 outreach campaign, which has been soliciting feedback from the public through meetings with community leaders and on PlaNYC’s website, has been completed, and the word is in: People in New York want to do something about traffic congestion. So far, the website has received 52,000 visits from […]

The Times is a Changin’

By Aaron Naparstek | Jan 12, 2007 | 22 Comments

A chart illustrating the number who commute by auto to the Central Business District from Bruce Schaller’s study for the Manhattan Institute, Battling Traffic: What New Yorkers Think About Road Pricing. A great story on New York City traffic congestion, In Traffic’s Jam, Who’s Driving May Be Surprising, ran on the front page of the […]

A Snapshot of New York City Gridlock

By Aaron Naparstek | Dec 7, 2006 | 6 Comments

Bruce Schaller’s new study, Battling Traffic, released this morning at a standing-room only Manhattan Institute panel discussion, digs in to the question of what New Yorkers really think about the city’s traffic congestion and the idea of using road pricing and other tools to manage it. Want to see what New York City gridlock looks like? Take a look […]

45% of New Yorkers Receptive to a Congestion Charge

By Aaron Naparstek | Nov 27, 2006 | 30 Comments

The congestion charging policy roll-out is officially on the move. Today the Tri-State Transportation Campaign released the findings of a detailed telephone survey conducted last spring in an effort to learn more about how New Yorkers feel about traffic congestion and the idea of making motorists pay more to drive in to the most gridlocked […]

Straphangers’ Russianoff Will be Named to Spitzer Team

By Aaron Naparstek | Nov 15, 2006 | 13 Comments

Streetsblog has learned that Gene Russianoff, executive director of the Straphangers Campaign, will be named as a member of Governor-Elect Eliot Spitzer’s transition team transportation committee. The announcement is likely to be made tomorrow. Russianoff says, "No comment." Unlike yesterday’s inaccurate tip about the Mayor’s Office of Long-Term Planning and Sustainability this item seems to be solid. Russianoff generated […]

Traffic’s Human Toll

By Aaron Naparstek | Oct 6, 2006 | No Comments

Transportation Alternatives’ new study, Traffic’s Human Toll, is getting picked up all over the place (CBS, NBC, Post). The report is an update on the famous Appleyard Study and it found that New Yorkers who live on high traffic streets have a measurably lower quality of life. Not exactly a huge surprise, and yet this […]

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