Recent Streetsblog NYC posts about Transportation Policy

Stockholm: Congestion Charging is Likely to Continue

By Aaron Naparstek | | 15 Comments
Last month residents of Stockholm, Sweden voted in a citywide referendum to continue that city’s experiment with congestion charging. By charging motorists a fee to drive into the city center, congestion charging had successfully reduced the amount of time Stockholm motorists spent waiting in traffic by 30 to 50 percent while significantly reducing air pollution and providing […]

Eyes on the Street: Amsterdam

By Aaron Naparstek | | 8 Comments
After Copenhagen, I visited Holland for a few days as a part of my German Marshall Fellowship. I will be writing more about some of the people I met and spoke with there, but for now I just wanted to share these photos from Amsterdam: For me, one of the things that makes Amsterdam and […]

Job Opening

By Aaron Naparstek | | No Comments
The Department of Transportation’s Bicycle Group is hiring. Know anyone good for the job? The New York City Department of Transportation is embarking on an aggressive campaign to expand the City’s on-street network of bicycle lanes and routes to facilitate the use of bicycles as an emission-free mode of transportation. Over the next three years, […]

Can Sprawl Be Beneficial?

By Aaron Donovan | | 20 Comments
Panelists on suburban sprawl: Eugenie Birch, James Russell, Robert Bruegmann and Alexander Garvin. Folks who went to yesterday’s Municipal Art Society forum "Can Sprawl Be Beneficial" heard what must be the best possible defense for suburban sprawl from one of its recently arrived boosters: "I’m not saying that sprawl is good," said author Robert Bruegmann. "All I’m saying is that […]

Notes on Bicycling in Copenhagen

By Aaron Naparstek | | 20 Comments
Copenhagen, Denmark is not a natural bicycling city. In the early 1960’s it was very much of a car town. In 1962 the city created its first pedestrian street, the Stroget, and every year since then Copenhagen has allocated more and more of its public space to bicycles, pedestrians and people who just want to sit […]

Traffic’s Human Toll

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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 […]
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