Recent Streetsblog NYC posts about Traffic

Tomorrow, Special Event: What is Traffic’s Human Toll?

By Aaron Naparstek | Oct 4, 2006 | 1 Comment

A special New York City Streets Renaissance Campaign event. Location: NYU Puck Building, 295 Lafayette Street, 2nd FloorTime: 9 – 10:30 amRSVP: research@transalt.org.Note: A light breakfast will be served.

Traffic’s Human Toll

By Aaron Naparstek | Oct 3, 2006 | No Comments

For the last two years or so Transportation Alternatives’ Karla Quintero has been working on a New York City-based update of the famous "Appleyard Study" examining the social costs of traffic. Karla presented the study’s preliminary findings last year at a forum I helped organize in Brooklyn and it was really interesting. This event is sure to be a […]

New York City’s Opinion-Makers Turn Attention to Traffic

By Aaron Naparstek | Sep 13, 2006 | 13 Comments

Today’s Times Select, a subscriber-only web site, has published a lengthy manifesto on New York City traffic and transportation by Carolyn Curiel. It urges Mayor Bloomberg to listen to the ideas being generated by the Citywide Coalition for Traffic Relief, and suggests that his legacy depends on it. Increasingly, one gets the sense that the […]

Traffic Continues to Disappear in Paris

By Ethan Kent | Aug 11, 2006 | 4 Comments

In 2001, shortly after being elected the Mayor of Paris on a platform promising to "fight, with all the means at my disposal, against the harmful, ever-increasing and unacceptable hegemony of the automobile," Bertrand Delanoë began implementing a series of far-reaching transportation reforms throughout the City of Light. With New York City Department of Transportation Commissioner […]

Poll: NYC Blames Bloomberg for Failure to Deal With Traffic

By Aaron Naparstek | Aug 7, 2006 | 10 Comments

A Broken Street: Broadway north of Houston St. on an August Friday. New Yorkers want the Mayor to fix it. The so-called "greatest city in the world" doesn’t even have decently-paved streets, let alone cutting edge transportation features like bus rapid transit, neighborhood traffic calming plans or bicycle-friendly avenues. It may be time to consider […]

Mayor Bloomberg Says NYC Traffic Congestion is Good.

By Aaron Naparstek | Aug 2, 2006 | 16 Comments

Mayor Bloomberg offered a depressing-yet-enlightening dose of complacency about the city’s traffic crunch this morning. Speaking at Museum of the City of New York’s construction kickoff, Bloomberg explained that he’d arrived late because he’d been "huddled with Con Ed" to monitor power usage during the heatwave. After carping a bit about residents turning up their air […]

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