Recent Streetsblog NYC posts about Transportation Policy

The Times Wants Your Traffic Ideas

By Brad Aaron | | 4 Comments
From the New York Times: Traffic on the Brain?  Everyone, it seems, has an opinion on the best way to ease Manhattan’s perpetual traffic crunch. Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg proposes congestion pricing. A group opposed to that plan suggests raising parking meter rates instead. Some bicyclists would ban cars. Some drivers would ban bicycles. There’s […]

Times Calls for End to Free Parking Monopoly

By Brad Aaron | | 47 Comments
One of the most repeated criticisms of congestion pricing is that the city isn’t taking relatively simple measures within its control to ease traffic-related problems. The Times today offers its take on three of them. Taxi stands. Anyone who has tried to get a taxi in New York in the rain, particularly at rush hour, […]

RPA Refutes Anti-Pricing “Alternatives” Study

By John Kaehny | | 9 Comments
On Wednesday, Jeffrey Zupan, Regional Plan Association’s transportation analyst, issued a comprehensive rebuttal of the main traffic reducing measures proposed in Keep NYC Congestion Tax Free’s anti-congestion pricing report, “Alternative Approaches to Traffic Congestion Mitigation in the Manhattan Central Business District." Thanks to Zupan, Transportation Alternatives and other critics, four fundamental problems with the Keep […]

Who is Richard Brodsky?

By Aaron Naparstek | | 14 Comments
Matthew Schuerman offers up a brief but insightful profile of Westchester Assembly member Richard Brodsky in this week’s Observer. Who is the man who holds the keys to the future of New York City transportation policy? First of all, like many on the government payroll, he’s got his own ideas about parking policy: Already late […]
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