Recent Streetsblog NYC posts about Transportation Policy

Will “Atlantic Yards” Kill the JFK-Lower Manhattan Rail Link?

By Aaron Naparstek | Feb 20, 2007 | 4 Comments

The Atlantic Yards plan superimposed on the released JFK-to-Lower Manhattan rail link study (PDF docs). Click here for a much bigger map. Jonathan Cohn at BrooklynViews is reporting that the current plan for Forest City Enterprises’ Atlantic Yards development in Brooklyn appears to preclude the possibility of someday building one of the Pataki Administration’s favorite […]

DOT Commissioner Update

By Aaron Naparstek | Feb 16, 2007 | 19 Comments

Sources say that Janette Sadik-Khan (left) is a top candidate to replace Iris Weinshall when she resigns on April 13. Sadik-Khan met with Deputy Mayor Dan Doctoroff this week to talk about the job. A senior vice president at Parsons Brinckerhoff and former Director of the Mayor’s Office of Transportation for New York City during […]

Plan Urged Safety Measures for Intersection Where Boy Died

By Aaron Naparstek | Feb 15, 2007 | 16 Comments

The May 2003 final report of the Downtown Brooklyn Traffic Calming Project recommended pedestrian safety measures designed specifically to prevent the kind of collision that killed a four-year-old boy in the Gowanus section of Brooklyn on Tuesday afternoon. A graphic from the Downtown Brooklyn Traffic Calming Project final plan showing pedestrian safety recommendations for Third […]

Sustainable Transportation for NYC: How to Make it Happen

By Sarah Goodyear | Feb 13, 2007 | 2 Comments

Today on Gotham Gazette, Bruce Schaller outlines how transportation policy could fit in to Mayor Bloomberg’s sustainability initiative for 2030. The piece merits a full read, but Schaller frames his argument in terms of three big ideas: [F]ix the skewed economic incentives to drive, implement targeted transit improvements throughout the city, and make more efficient […]

Gridlock Sam: Avert Climate Catastrophe, Ride a Vespa^®

By Aaron Naparstek | Feb 12, 2007 | 29 Comments

While Parisians are starting to complain that "an invasion of noisy scooters and motorcycles and a rise in accidents involving pedestrian and motorcyclists" is one of the "unintended consequences" of Mayor Bertrand Delanoe’s traffic reduction policies, "Gridlock" Sam Schwartz’s consulting firm just issued a report claiming that New York City could better meet its […]

Unintended Consequences of Paris’s Traffic-Reduction Policies

By Aaron Naparstek | Feb 12, 2007 | 4 Comments

Red lights mean gridlock on this real-time map of Parisian road traffic. During the launch of Paris’s new streetcar system last month, a Times of London wrote that Parisians are beginning to turn against Mayor Bertrand Delanoe’s aggressive traffic reduction measures: Paris residents, most of whom do not drive much, were until recently happy with […]

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