Recent Streetsblog NYC posts about Transportation Policy

Its Showtime for the DOT Parking Team

By John Kaehny | Nov 30, 2007 | 33 Comments

As usual, traffic was heavy on 125th Street outside the Alhambra Ballroom in central Harlem, Wednesday evening, where the Department of Transportation held its fourth of seven planned workshops to discuss parking strategies in neighborhoods bordering the City’s proposed congestion pricing zone. According to Bruce Schaller, Deputy Commissioner for Planning and Sustainability at the DOT, […]

Paris Wins the ITDP Sustainable Transport Award

By Jason Varone | Nov 30, 2007 | 1 Comment

The Institute for Transportation and Development Policy has chosen Paris for its 2008 Sustainable Transportation Award. In a letter from the ITDP Board of Directors to Paris Mayor Bertrand Delanoë, the Institute praises the French capitol’s recent transportation policies, most notably the Vélib project: Under your leadership, Paris has implemented a range of innovative mobility […]

Eliminate the Parking Requirement

By Alex Marshall | Nov 27, 2007 | 65 Comments

I’ve long bristled at the word "subsidies" that is applied so frequently to subways, buses and trains, and so infrequently to driving, even when the latter is "subsidized" much more lavishly than the former. The latest subsidy I’ve encountered most viscerally is the requirement that exists, even in most parts of New York City, to […]

Mayor Norman Mailer: Free Bikes, Clean Air and No Private Cars

By John Kaehny | Nov 26, 2007 | 11 Comments

Michael Frumin, who worked with the Regional Plan Association to develop the intriguing Triboro RX concept a while back, has a vintage 1969 Mailer-Breslin mayoral campaign poster up on his Frumination blog today. The artwork was squirreled away by Frumin’s grandfather for 30 years. It’s worth a look. Norman Mailer, the great American writer, larger […]

TSTC.org Would Be More Thankful If…

By Aaron Naparstek | Nov 26, 2007 | 4 Comments

The Tri-State Transportation Campaign’s new Mobilizing the Region blog is really starting to come alive. If you haven’t added it to your daily news feed yet, it’s probably time to do it. After giving thanks for the transportation policy advances of 2007 on Thursday, the TSTC staff, engorged with Tofurkey, went back to work on […]

Alan Durning’s “Year of Living Carlessly” and “Bicycle Neglect”

By Aaron Naparstek | Nov 19, 2007 | 2 Comments

Alan Durning, executive director of the Seattle-based Sightline Institute has been doing some great writing on Livable Streets and sustainable transport issues over the last year. If you haven’t run across his work, he is writing a pair of ongoing series that I think will be of particular interest to Streetsblog readers. On Friday, Durning […]

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