Recent Streetsblog NYC posts about Transportation Policy

Bus Bulbs Are Blooming

By Sarah Goodyear | Apr 18, 2007 | 15 Comments

According to a more-than-a-little-snarky post on Curbed, the first of Lower Broadway’s hotly anticipated bus bulbs has been constructed on Broadway south of Spring Street. As Streetsblog wrote when the DOT announced the plan to construct the bulbs back in March, this is a noteworthy development for several reasons: The benefits of bus bulbs include […]

The Parking Dysfunction Meter: Fines Are Five Times Revenue

By John Kaehny | Apr 16, 2007 | 16 Comments

More enduring than Big Foot, the Loch Ness Monster and the resurrection of Elvis is the deeply held belief that there is such a thing as "free" parking for the average motorist in New York City. "Free" means you do not have to pay. But someone is paying the $579,455,152 in parking fines the city […]

DOT Called Out for Lacking Clear Ped Safety Plan

By Brad Aaron | Apr 13, 2007 | 1 Comment

While acknowledging that casualties have dropped overall in recent years, safety advocates and government officials are calling on the DOT to establish measurable benchmarks for further reducing pedestrian injuries and deaths in the city, and want the agency to get moving on relatively minor improvements that would help meet those goals. At a hearing of […]

Pedicab Limits: Let the Free Market Decide

By Jason Varone | Apr 13, 2007 | 4 Comments

This NY Sun editorial weighs in on the proposed pedicab restrictions: Imagine if the long-distance bus industry were allowed to set a limit on the number of airline flights in and out of New York City, or if the beer industry were allowed to place a cap on the number of bottles of wine that […]

Quinn’s Pedicab Problem: Personal or Political?

By Brad Aaron | Apr 12, 2007 | 9 Comments

City Council Speaker Christine Quinn is reportedly pressuring — some might say coercing — council members into backing her effort to override of Mayor Bloomberg’s veto of stringent pedicab restrictions. Tony Avella of Queens talked to the Sun about Quinn’s anti-pedicab campaign among council members. Mr. Avella said his colleagues are following Ms. Quinn’s wishes […]

City’s Parking Expansion Sustains Nothing but Motoring

By Sarah Goodyear | Apr 12, 2007 | 7 Comments

From the Tri-State Transportation Campaign‘s latest newsletter, three examples of how City Hall contradicts its stated Long-Term Planning and Sustainability goals with policies that foster more automobile dependence: The huge parking expansion associated with new Yankee Stadium construction has failed to attract any bids from private operators. The city has apparently scaled the seemingly uneconomic […]

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