Recent Streetsblog NYC posts about Ted Kheel

The One Carbon Tax That Couldn’t

By Charles Komanoff | Dec 20, 2007 | 13 Comments

Assembly Member Richard Brodsky, archenemy of Mayor Bloomberg’s congestion pricing plan, is urging the mayor to seek a carbon tax instead. So he said, following Monday’s meeting of the Traffic Congestion Mitigation Commission, as reported by Streetsblog and confirmed by at least one other observer. I wish Brodsky (pictured) had checked with me first. After […]

Kheel Plan: Double the Congestion Charge & Make Transit Free

By Brad Aaron | Dec 18, 2007 | 35 Comments

"If you were to design the ultimate system, you would have mass transit be free and charge an enormous amount for cars." So said Mayor Michael Bloomberg last April, right about the time he unveiled his plan to charge motorists a fee to drive into Manhattan’s central business district. Eight months later, as the mayor’s […]

Transit-Oriented America, Part 2: Three Cities

By Aaron Donovan | Aug 21, 2007 | 13 Comments

This is the second installment in a five-part rail travel series that began yesterday. In between all that fun Amtrak travel I described yesterday, my wife Susan and I stopped on our honeymoon at six great cities with an eye toward observing their built environments and transportation systems (but mostly just being plain old tourists). […]

Theodore Kheel: My Proposal to Robert Moses

By Ethan Kent | Apr 2, 2007 | 6 Comments

Theodore Kheel (pictured right), has been called by The New York Times "the most influential peacemaker in New York City in the last half-century" in light of the fact that he has participated in the resolution of more than 30,000 labor disputes. Kheel has founded several related foundations devoted to resolving the conflict between the […]

The Subway Should Be Free

By Aaron Donovan | Feb 9, 2007 | 32 Comments

George Haikalis of the Institute for Rational Urban Mobility, with microphone. Environmentalist Theodore W. Kheel, seated next to him, at far right, would reduce the subway fare to nothing. On December 23, 1943, the New York City subways carried more than 8 million people, said the labor relations arbitrator and environmentalist Theodore W. Kheel last night at […]