Recent Streetsblog NYC posts about Greenhouse Gas Emissions

Holland Tunnel traffic inbound from New Jersey. Tolling of the Lincoln and Holland Tunnels would divert east-west auto and truck trips to the Cross-Bronx Expressway and other highways north of mid-Manhattan. Photo: Wikimedia Commons

OPINION: The Port Authority’s Car Dependence Is Killing Our Climate-Change Goals

By Bob Previdi | Jul 29, 2021 | No Comments

If the New York metro area is to decarbonize, the bi-state agency should lead the effort. But can it wean itself off tolls and parking fees?

A car from the now sadly defunct Car2Go, which sold point-to-point car-share by the minute. An expansion of car share could reduce the number of vehicles on our streets. Photo: Elliott Brown/Flick

OPINION: To Ban Cars, Socialize Them

By Nicole A. Murray | Jul 20, 2021 | No Comments

The city could repurpose its huge fleet into a car-share one, starting with the NYPD's huge cache of vehicles.

Multi-State Climate Plan Fails To Please All Advocates

By Ethan Goffman | Jul 6, 2021 | No Comments

The latest version of a multistate plan to lower transportation emissions represents an improvement, but still doesn't go far enough on environmental-justice issues, some advocates say.