Recent Streetsblog NYC posts about Bruce Schaller

A Snapshot of New York City Gridlock

By Aaron Naparstek | Dec 7, 2006 | 6 Comments

Bruce Schaller’s new study, Battling Traffic, released this morning at a standing-room only Manhattan Institute panel discussion, digs in to the question of what New Yorkers really think about the city’s traffic congestion and the idea of using road pricing and other tools to manage it. Want to see what New York City gridlock looks like? Take a look […]

Rumor Mill: Sustainability Announcement Tomorrow

By Aaron Naparstek | Nov 14, 2006 | 30 Comments

Word has it that the Bloomberg Administration’s new Office of Long-Term Planning and Sustainability will unveil its first work product this coming Wednesday, November 15. It looks like this initial public announcement will be oriented more around the problems that the new office is thinking about and working on rather than the solutions. The solutions, I am told, may start to emerge as […]

Rumor Mill: Agencies Will Have to Budget for Parking Permits

By Aaron Naparstek | Nov 2, 2006 | 8 Comments

Word has it that as city agenices flesh out their budgets for next year, Mayor Bloomberg is considering requiring that they include the cost of employee parking permits as a specific budget line item. In other words, if the NYPD or any other agency wants to give out untold hundreds of parking permits to its […]

Thursday’s Transpo Conference: A Call for Reform

By Alec | Oct 17, 2006 | 8 Comments

While former Bogota Mayor Enrique Peñalosa and DOT Commissioner Iris Weinshall got most of the attention for their keynote speeches at last week’s transportation policy conference, much of the day’s real intellectual ferment took place in the five separate breakout sessions that convened before lunch. The groups were organized as follows: Subways and Commuter Rail […]

New York City’s Opinion-Makers Turn Attention to Traffic

By Aaron Naparstek | Sep 13, 2006 | 13 Comments

Today’s Times Select, a subscriber-only web site, has published a lengthy manifesto on New York City traffic and transportation by Carolyn Curiel. It urges Mayor Bloomberg to listen to the ideas being generated by the Citywide Coalition for Traffic Relief, and suggests that his legacy depends on it. Increasingly, one gets the sense that the […]

The $46 Million Parking Perk

By Aaron Naparstek | Jun 16, 2006 | 11 Comments

The police tow one of their own in Chinatown on May 10, 2006. Community and business groups say that much of Lower Manhattan has become a free parking lot for government employees’ personal vehicles. (Photo: Geoff Lee) Illegally parked government employees are subtracting $46 million a year in potential parking fees from New York City’s coffers, according to […]