Recent Streetsblog NYC posts about Studies & Reports

New York Could be a Global Leader in Alternative Energy

By Jason Varone | Feb 23, 2007 | 6 Comments

The Syracuse Post-Standard reports: The shrub willow, which can be burned to make steam and electricity or fermented to make ethanol, or both, is just one of the renewable, homegrown sources of energy under development in Upstate New York. Fertilized by government incentives and by the need to kick the oil and gas habit, alternative […]

Traffic, Pedestrian Fatalities Rise in New Jersey

By Jason Varone | Feb 16, 2007 | No Comments

Newsday reports: Pedestrian fatalities rose about 8 percent in New Jersey last year, according to statistics released Thursday. The number of pedestrian fatalities as a percentage of total traffic fatalities rose slightly, from 21 percent to 22 percent. The statistics were provided by the Tri-State Transportation Campaign. In 2005, 156 of 747 New Jerseyans who […]

Living Near Shops and Transit Makes New Yorkers Less Fat

By Jason Varone | Feb 15, 2007 | 12 Comments

A new Columbia University study published in the American Journal of Health Promotion, yet again, links livable streets to improved public health. The study reports: "There are relatively strong associations between built environment and Body Mass Index, even in population-dense New York City," said Andrew Rundle, Dr.P.H., lead study author and assistant professor of epidemiology […]

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 […]

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 […]

Teaching City Gov’t to Count More Than Just Cars and Trucks

By Aaron Naparstek | Jan 23, 2007 | 5 Comments

Transportation Alternatives issued a new study by transportation consultant Bruce Schaller today called Traffic Information in NYC (PDF file). The report, according to T.A., "uncovers large gaps in what is known about traffic and transportation in New York City." "The City," says Schaller, "is not collecting the basic information necessary to redress current gridlock, much […]

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