Recent Streetsblog NYC posts about Transportation Policy

Why Is Saudi Arabia’s Oil Production Down?

By Aaron Donovan | Mar 14, 2007 | 11 Comments

We still have three years and nine and a half months to learn who will win the bet between energy investment banker Matthew R. Simmons and New York Times columnist John Tierney over whether oil prices would be above or below $200 a barrel in 2010. Tierney bet "below" because he believes that over the long term, the prices […]

DOT’s Park Slope Proposal: Is this Atlantic Yards Planning?

By Aaron Naparstek | Mar 13, 2007 | 6 Comments

Last week, DOT quietly revealed that it was planning to narrow Fourth Avenue and transform Park Slope, Brooklyn’s Sixth and Seventh Avenues in to one-way streets. Agency officials say that the the changes are being proposed for no reason other than "to make it safer for pedestrians crossing the street." Fourth, Sixth and Seventh Avenues […]

“Parking Rock Star” Donald Shoup Plays Broadway

By Neil deMause | Mar 13, 2007 | 6 Comments

Early Friday morning, more than 100 transportation experts and advocates descended on the garish hell that is New Times Square to hear a two-hour presentation about parking. In a cozy theater across the street from Dave and Buster’s, UCLA urban planner Donald Shoup held forth on his much-discussed ideas for reforming traffic via "market-based" street […]

One Way? No Way. Send a Message to City Hall.

By Aaron Naparstek | Mar 12, 2007 | 1 Comment

Park Slope Neighbors, a group that I co-founded and work for, has organized a petition drive in response to the Department of Transportation’s plan to turn Sixth and Seventh Avenues into one-way streets. Volunteers were out on the streets this weekend. The petition reads: To the New York City Department of Transportation and New York […]

Insta-Bus Rapid Transit for Lower Manhattan

By Aaron Naparstek | Mar 12, 2007 | 1 Comment

The Daily News and New York Sun have more details on DOT’s plan to speed up buses on Broadway south of Houston Street.

Quick Bus and Ped Improvements Coming to Lower Broadway

By Aaron Naparstek | Mar 11, 2007 | 10 Comments

Nope, that’s not Lower Manhattan. It’s an example of a "bus bulb" in Edgewater, Chicago, a neighborhood known for its thoughtful planning and pedestrian-friendly streets. Tomorrow, the Department of Transportation will make the first public announcement of its Lower Manhattan Transit Priority Plan. We don’t have all of the details but the redesign plan for […]

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