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Talking Headways Podcast: Autonomous Vehicles in NYC? Oy Vey!

By Jeff Wood | Dec 15, 2022 | No Comments

This week, we’re joined by Sarah Kaufman of the NYU Rudin Center for Transportation for a chat at the RailVolution conference in Miami. Kaufman and I talked about autonomous vehicle policy, acceptable safety levels, and what will happen to the iconic New York City taxi.

Vanderbilt Avenue in Brooklyn is a successful open street — the kind of thing that a public realm czar would love. File photo: Prospect Heights Neighborhood Development Council

NEW NEW YORK: Mayor Adams Will Create a ‘Public Realm Czar’

By Kevin Duggan | Dec 15, 2022 | No Comments

The new public space czar would become the central node to oversee the different agencies that affect all public realm policies and projects, including the departments of Transportation, Parks, and Sanitation.

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Four Ways To Build A Better Automated Enforcement Program

By Kea Wilson | Dec 15, 2022 | No Comments

Simple messaging changes can help transportation leaders win over residents who are skeptical of automated enforcement, a new study finds — and there's even more they can do to make those programs equitable, effective, and deserving of public support.

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Podcast: The (Too-Brief) History of Traffic Violence Memorials in America

By Kea Wilson | Dec 14, 2022 | No Comments

Mass memorials to the victims of traffic violence are a rarity on American roads. But it wasn't always that way — and there's a fascinating history behind why so many lost lives have become virtually invisible in the public realm today.

Historic haul: DSNY workers collect garbage from containers on W. 45th Street during the first day of the year-long residential Clean Curbs pilot on Dec. 13. Photo: Kevin Duggan

City Launches Long-Awaited Containerized Residential Trash Pilot

By Kevin Duggan | Dec 13, 2022 | No Comments

It's history in the taking as Sanitation workers start collecting trash from the curbside lane, not the sidewalk on one lucky block in Hells Kitchen.

Creating more public space promotes wellness. Photo: NYC Public Design Commission

Opinion: We Must Put Wellness at the Center of Public Space Design

By Jenna Miller | Dec 13, 2022 | No Comments

As we reflect on our past and look to the future, how can we design and care for our streets differently to benefit the millions of people who occupy our public realm each day?

More and more buildings are simply banning electric bikes — a classic baby-and-bathwater solution. Photo: FDNY

UP IN SMOKE? Private Buildings Step Up E-Bike Bans in Wake of Fires

By Julianne Cuba | Dec 13, 2022 | No Comments

Private buildings and institutions are banning e-mobility devices amid growing fears over fires attributed to faulty lithium-ion batteries that have killed six people this year and left many more without a home. But is this the right way to go about it?

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Syracuse’s Messy I-81 Teardown Fight Shows the Challenge of ‘Reconnecting Communities’

By Kea Wilson | Dec 12, 2022 | No Comments

An 11th-hour legal battle over the future of one of America's most talked-about highway teardowns is sparking a debate about what it really means to "reconnect communities" devastated by highway construction — and possibly offering a preview of similar fights on deck in other U.S. cities.

The Department of Transportation under Mayor Eric Adams (left) and Commissioner Ydanis Rodriguez (right) expects it will struggle to hit the targets for new bus lanes set by the Adams campaign and by the city's Streets Plan, sources told Streetsblog.

DOT Expects to Miss Targets for New Bus Lanes, Sources Say

By Jesse Coburn | Dec 12, 2022 | No Comments

The dim outlook on new lanes is bad news for the city’s more-than-one-million daily bus riders, whose commutes inch along at just 8 miles per hour on average across the city.

A helicopter waits at the Downtown Manhattan Heliport. Photo: Anna Zvereva via Wikimedia Commons

Going in Circles: Laws to Tame Helicopters Struggle to Take Off

By Kevin Duggan | Dec 12, 2022 | No Comments

Helicopters are like the weather: Everyone complains about them, but no one fixes the problem. Here's our deep dive into how all three branches of government have failed the public.

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Beyond Ciclovia: Five Lessons on Sustainable Transportation from Colombia

By Kea Wilson | Dec 11, 2022 | No Comments

Here's a deeply non-exhaustive list of five lessons about sustainable transportation I took home with me from a recent trip to Colombia, and why I can't wait to go back.

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Talking Headways Podcast: Transit Matters in Boston (But Here’s the Secret to Why)

By Jeff Wood | Dec 10, 2022 | No Comments

"There’s just so many ways that you can figure out what your niche is," says one activist on how advocacy groups can make a difference.

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