Recent Streetsblog NYC posts about Transportation Policy

Electeds Go to the Mat for Cheap Gas

By Brad Aaron | May 14, 2008 | 7 Comments

Desperate to look as if they’re responding to motorists complaints and prayers, state and federal electeds continue to scramble for a quick fix to ever-rising gas prices. In Albany, Senate Republicans have adopted the state gas tax "holiday" as their issue of the moment. Since the largely-ridiculed measure is going nowhere in the Assembly, Joe […]

Bus Rapid Transit Under Fire in Delhi, India

By Brad Aaron | May 13, 2008 | 14 Comments

As a new class of automobile owners floods the streets of India with cheap cars, the city of Delhi is trying to stem the tide with a new Bus Rapid Transit program. Unfortunately, along with the cars has come the requisite sense of entitlement and modal prejudice, as EMBARQ reports: This last week Delhi began […]

Northern Virginia Locked In to Congested Roads

By Ben Fried | May 9, 2008 | 11 Comments

Suburbanites in northern Virginia are finding their streets more clogged with traffic than ever, and, as the Washington Post reported earlier this week, they aren’t about to get bailed out by road-widening projects. Here’s the crux of the problem, told from the Post reporter’s decidedly windshield perspective: Thoroughfares like Rolling Road are the blood vessels […]

Video Contest Seeks Winning Pitch for Transit

By Ben Fried | May 8, 2008 | 1 Comment

Attention aspiring Streetfilm directors: U.S. PIRG has noticed that transit doesn’t seem to be on the radar of most pols, so it’s enlisting the YouTube generation to help lawmakers see the light. From the U.S. PIRG website: Are you tired of being stuck in traffic? Shouldn’t we have better options? In the last decade, people […]

Delaware Senator Dares to Utter the Word “Transit”

By Ben Fried | May 7, 2008 | 18 Comments

Even as the price of gas turns into a hot-button campaign issue, the presidential candidates are studiously avoiding the "T" word — transit — for the most part. But the notion of driving less and riding more is bubbling up, even in the corridors of Congress. We turn to Delaware Senator Thomas Carper, who made […]

Clinton Camp May Rethink Gas Tax Strategy

By Brad Aaron | May 7, 2008 | 13 Comments

With a big loss in North Carolina and a razor-thin victory in Indiana, the Times reports that Senator Hillary Clinton’s advisers are expected to reconsider her campaign strategy for upcoming Democratic primaries — specifically, whether to continue pushing for a federal gas tax cut. Clinton advisers also said that the candidates and her team would […]

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