Recent Streetsblog NYC posts about Studies & Reports

Rider Report: Select Bus Service Shaves Trip Time

By Brad Aaron | Jul 3, 2008 | 16 Comments

Three days after the debut of Bx12 Select Bus Service, Bronx resident and Tri-State Transportation Campaign Associate Director Veronica Vanterpool rode the route from Co-op City to Inwood. On Mobilizing the Region, she reports that riders are becoming accustomed to the pre-payment system and rear-door boarding, with the help of bus drivers and New York […]

Will Brodsky and Assembly Dems Back Up Their Enforcement Bluster?

By Ben Fried | Jul 2, 2008 | 2 Comments

A short item in yesterday’s Crain’s Insider notes that the hiring of 100 additional traffic agents is on hold due to belt-tightening in the city budget: An increase in the number of traffic agents, called for in PlaNYC, was cut from the city budget approved Sunday. The agents were to patrol new bus lanes and […]

New Study Shows City Can Reduce Congestion Through Parking Policy

By Ben Fried | Jun 20, 2008 | 9 Comments

A study released today by Transportation Alternatives puts the congestion and waste caused by cheap metered parking in stark terms. The report, "Driven to Excess" [PDF], quantifies just how far Upper West Side drivers go in search of open spots: 366,000 miles a year, or about the distance from Earth to the moon. The Post […]

T.A.: Car-Free Central Park Would Ease Neighborhood Congestion

By Brad Aaron | Jun 12, 2008 | 24 Comments

A study released this week by Transportation Alternatives undercuts the claim that closing Central Park’s loop drive to cars would increase traffic on the streets of Harlem. To the contrary, findings indicate that loop entrances on 110th street at Malcolm X and Adam Clayton Powell Boulevards "act as traffic magnets," drawing vehicles onto neighborhood streets […]

Share Your Experience as a New York Bicycle Commuter

By Jason Varone | Mar 7, 2008 | No Comments

Attention New Yorkers who bike to work: Mathew Ides, a masters student at Hunter College Department of Urban Affairs & Planning, is surveying bike commuters in the city to see how they view the built environment. You can take the survey here. Ides has also set up a website, Hubs and Spokes, to provide more […]

We Are Breathing Oil in Our Big Cities

By Jason Varone | Feb 20, 2008 | 4 Comments

In three different studies presented at the American Association for the Advancement of Science‘s annual meeting in Boston last weekend, researchers "provided mounting evidence that air pollution can both increase the risk of cardiovascular disease in the long-term and induce heart attacks within hours of traffic exposure." While the studies have yet to be released […]

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