Recent Streetsblog NYC posts about Ted Kheel

In Memoriam: Ted Kheel, Transit Advocate and Visionary

By Charles Komanoff | Nov 15, 2010 | 10 Comments

The New York Times called Ted Kheel, who died Friday at the age of 96, New York City’s pre-eminent labor peacemaker from the 1950s through the 1980s. And he was. Ted was also a steadfast advocate for civil rights, a fierce champion of mass transit, a stalwart defender of labor, an urbanist, a philanthropist, and […]

Wanted: Crowd-Sourced Transportation Analysis

By Charles Komanoff | Oct 16, 2009 | 12 Comments

My recent post refuting David Owen’s attack on congestion pricing ignited a long, rich thread. Here’s one comment, from "Jonathan," that struck a nerve: [A] cordon-pricing plan … which doesn’t charge center-city residents could result in an increase in those residents’ automobile use. If the streets are free of outer-borough traffic, more of my Manhattan […]

Bloomberg Tests Free-Transit Waters

By Charles Komanoff | Aug 4, 2009 | 21 Comments

Mayor Bloomberg lifted a page straight from the Kheel Plan playbook yesterday in calling on the MTA to make crosstown buses free [PDF]. Bus riders and transit advocates should be beaming. Photo of M14 bus: Kriston Lewis/Flickr. Free buses will save bus riders time and money and will benefit everyone by luring some taxi and […]

Whither the MTA: Beyond the Failed Stopgap

By Charles Komanoff | Mar 27, 2009 | 14 Comments

This week’s MTA vote won’t just cost New Yorkers 25 percent more per ride, it will also be costly in lost time. Using the Balanced Transportation Analyzer (BTA), I estimate that the fare hikes and service cuts which begin June 1 will: Add an average of 6 percent more waiting and travel time to bus […]

Beyond Ravitch: Still Time for a Bolder Plan

By Charles Komanoff | Mar 10, 2009 | 25 Comments

As Albany lawmakers ponder which of a half-dozen Ravitch plan variations they might support, the possibility looms that no solution may come in time. New Yorkers could see their fares rise 25 percent while service is cut back — a twin catastrophe in this tough economic time. Yet no big new ideas are being advanced […]

Kheel Planners: MTA Austerity a Recipe for Gridlock Hell

By Ben Fried | Nov 21, 2008 | 7 Comments

New Yorkers can expect more misery on the streets as well as underground if the MTA has to follow through on the austerity measures it unveiled yesterday. The transportation analysts behind the Kheel Plan — the congestion pricing variant that balances higher driver fees with free transit — calculate that the likely combination of service […]

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