Recent Streetsblog NYC posts about Transportation Policy

Obama’s National Transportation Plan Includes Bicycling & Walking

By Damien Newton | | 12 Comments
Democratic front runner Barack Obama just released a campaign "Fact Sheet" entitled, "Strengthening America’s Transportation Infrastructure" (download it). While Hillary Clinton has put forward some outstanding and heavily transit-oriented plans of her own, Obama appears to be the first major party presidential candidate to outline a national transportation platform that explicitly seeks to "create policies […]

Is Big Environment Ready to Say America Is Hooked on Cars?

By Ben Fried | | 13 Comments
The NRDC’s "Beyond Oil" campaign. Are national environmental groups ready to shift their strategy? Earlier this month, the Wall Street Journal’s Joseph White, who covers the auto industry in his "Eyes on the Road" column, made a prediction that livable streets advocates will welcome. In the next year, he forecast, national environmental groups will re-focus […]

The New DOT is Still Using the Old Measuring Stick

By Ben Fried | | 10 Comments
Setting the tone: In its performance report, DOT starts off by measuring how quickly it fixes traffic lights. A preliminary version of the 2008 Mayor’s Management Report was released last week [PDF], and the Department of Transportation section is déja vu all over again. Ten months after the end of the Iris Weinshall regime, DOT […]

Missing: Urban Policy in the Presidential Campaign

By Aaron Naparstek | | 4 Comments
In its lead editorial yesterday, the New York Times called out the presidential candidates for their failure to address issues facing U.S. cities in this year’s campaign. If only the Des Moines Register’s editorial board had published something like this back in November… By now, many Americans have heard the presidential candidates talk about issues […]

“My Other Car Is a Bright Green City”

By Brad Aaron | | 6 Comments
As attention turns to the next federal transportation bill, and livable streets fans scan the platforms of presidential candidates for glimpses of what to expect from Washington over the next four years, Alex Steffen, editor and CEO of the blog WorldChanging, has posted an essay-in-progress called "My Other Car is a Bright Green City." Steffen […]
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