Recent Streetsblog NYC posts about Transportation Policy

Teaching City Gov’t to Count More Than Just Cars and Trucks

By Aaron Naparstek | Jan 23, 2007 | 5 Comments

Transportation Alternatives issued a new study by transportation consultant Bruce Schaller today called Traffic Information in NYC (PDF file). The report, according to T.A., "uncovers large gaps in what is known about traffic and transportation in New York City." "The City," says Schaller, "is not collecting the basic information necessary to redress current gridlock, much […]

New Congestion Pricing Poll in Line With London & Stockholm

By Aaron Naparstek | Jan 18, 2007 | 19 Comments

A new Quinnipiac Poll finds that New York City voters oppose the idea of congestion pricing by a margin of about two-to-one and the idea of East River Bridge tolls by more than four-to-one. The opposition exists despite the finding that only 24 percent of New York City voters surveyed "usually travel into and out […]

Traffic Signals Timed for Bicycling

By Aaron Naparstek | Jan 17, 2007 | 15 Comments

Here is an interesting bike infrastructure story out of Copenhagen, Denmark. 30,000 Cyclists Get the Green Wave: Cars and especially buses have for year had the benefit of a green traffic light wave on the roads. But now it is the cyclists turn to enjoy a smooth ride through the city without stopping at red […]

PLANYC 2030 Community Leader Meetings

By Aaron Naparstek | Jan 16, 2007 | 2 Comments

Mayor Bloomberg’s Office of Long-Term Planning & Sustainability is running a series of meetings with community groups. Though the meeting times are posted publicly on the PLANYC 2030 web site, no locations are listed and word has it these borough-wide "Community Leader" meetings are going to be pretty strictly invitation-only. Presentation to New York New Visions […]

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 […]

Making Hell’s Kitchen Less Hellish

By Aaron Naparstek | Jan 10, 2007 | 20 Comments

StreetFilms Ninth Avenue Renaissance Town Hall Meeting Running time: 3:35 Monday night was the first meeting of the Ninth Avenue Renaissance project. About 130 neighborhood stakeholders filled the gym at the Holy Cross School in Midtown to begin a process to transform Ninth Avenue from a dysfunctional, traffic-choked, polluted highway into, what organizer Christine Berthet […]

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