Recent Streetsblog NYC posts about Traffic

Atlantic Yards Traffic and Parking

By Aaron Naparstek | Jun 29, 2006 | No Comments

Continuing to ask the questions that don’t seem to occur to his salaried colleagues in the local media, Atlantic Yards Report’s Norman Oder has recently been digging in to the critical issues of traffic and parking around Forest City Ratner’s massive urban renewal plan for Prospect Heights, Brooklyn. Yesterday, Oder questioned the Empire State Development Corporation’s […]

Eyes on the Street: Brooklyn Bridge, Thurs. June 29, 8:45 am

By Aaron Naparstek | Jun 29, 2006 | 1 Comment

Manhattan-bound on the Brooklyn Bridge this morning, on the way to Transportation Alternatives’ City Hall rally. The traffic jam on the right, the smog-cloaked city in the background, the sparsely populated bike path — this is what a broken transportation system looks like.

Untangling Traffic: Bloomberg’s Forgotten Promise

By Aaron Naparstek | Jun 19, 2006 | No Comments

On July 11, 2001, Republican mayoral candidate Michael Bloomberg issued a policy paper on traffic and transportation. The paper was called "Untangling Traffic" and it’s opening sentence exclaimed, "Traffic is a mess!" Written with the help of transportation consultant and former DOT Deputy Commissioner "Gridlock" Sam Schwartz, the paper went on to detail some of […]

Jane Jacobs, 1916-2006

By Aaron Naparstek | Apr 25, 2006 | 6 Comments

One of the most influential urban thinkers, writers, and activists of the 20th century dies at age 89 in Toronto, Canada. "I enthusiastically endorse the campaign to close Central Park’s loop drive to regular automobile traffic. We had the same sort of fight in Washington Square Park in the late 1950s and in my neighborhood […]