Recent Streetsblog NYC posts about Transportation Policy

Congestion Pricing Plan Includes a “Livable Streets Lock Box”

By John Kaehny | Feb 1, 2008 | 54 Comments

There is a nice surprise for City Council, neighborhood groups and transportation reformers in the congestion pricing plan approved by the Traffic Mitigation Commission yesterday. On page 8 of the plan, in a section called "Securing of parking revenues," the commission proposes dedicating all revenue raised within the congestion pricing zone from additional parking meter […]

A “Vision Zero” for New York?

By Brad Aaron | Feb 1, 2008 | 3 Comments

On Tuesday the Bloomberg administration announced record low traffic deaths from 2000 to 2007, and claimed, if not in so many words, that city streets are safer than ever. But the numbers, included on a chart that accompanied this media release, also indicated that 23 cyclists died in 2007. That would make last year — […]

Would Dems’ Pledge for “Change” Bring Transportation Reform?

By Damien Newton | Jan 30, 2008 | 20 Comments

Hillary Clinton ad now airing in Southern California This is part two of a two-part series on where candidates for president stand on transportation issues, authored by Streetsblog Los Angeles correspondent Damien Newton. Damien currently runs the blog Street Heat, which is soon to become Streetsblog L.A., our first foray into foreign territory. Damien was […]

City Numbers Show Highest Cyclist Death Toll in Eight Years

By Brad Aaron | Jan 29, 2008 | 28 Comments

Traffic fatalities in 2007 were at their lowest level since the city began keeping records almost 100 years ago, according to data released today by the Bloomberg administration. However, while the number of pedestrian fatalities last year dropped sharply percentage-wise from 2006, down to roughly one death every two-and-a-half days, cyclist fatalities were up, and […]

No Clear Transpo Agenda From GOP Presidential Candidates

By Damien Newton | Jan 29, 2008 | 8 Comments

Mitt Romney at the 2008 North American International Auto Show in Detroit This is part one of a two-part series on where candidates for president stand on transportation issues, authored by Streetsblog Los Angeles correspondent Damien Newton. Damien currently runs the blog Street Heat, which is soon to become Streetsblog L.A., our first foray into […]

Streetfilm: Bus Rapid Transit (BRT) in Bogotá

By Clarence Eckerson Jr. | Jan 28, 2008 | 66 Comments

Want to learn more about Bus Rapid Transit? Watch this StreetFilm and let Streetsblog editor Aaron Naparstek show you how BRT works in Bogotá, Colombia. Take a gander and you’ll see an efficient, modern and — relatively speaking — inexpensive way of moving 1.3 million people per day. In Bogotá, where the BRT system goes […]

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