Recent Streetsblog NYC posts about Air Quality

The Ultimate System: Free Mass Transit and Congestion Pricing

By Jason Varone | Apr 20, 2007 | 15 Comments

WABC’s John Gambling spoke with Michael Bloomberg this morning. In anticipation of the Mayor’s Earth Day speech, they discussed everything from congestion charging to light bulbs. Below are some highlights from their conversation; you can download to the entire show here. On congestion pricing: If you were to charge, and I’ll let you know on […]

Bus Depots a Symptom of Environmental Injustice

By Brad Aaron | Apr 17, 2007 | 3 Comments

Gotham Gazette talked recently with Cecil Corbin-Mark, of West Harlem Environmental Action (WE ACT), about environmental justice in Upper Manhattan. WE ACT formed in 1988 to fight the siting of a sewage treatment plant, a bus depot and a garbage transfer station in an area already bearing an undue share of the city’s environmental […]

Quinn’s Pedicab Problem: Personal or Political?

By Brad Aaron | Apr 12, 2007 | 9 Comments

City Council Speaker Christine Quinn is reportedly pressuring — some might say coercing — council members into backing her effort to override of Mayor Bloomberg’s veto of stringent pedicab restrictions. Tony Avella of Queens talked to the Sun about Quinn’s anti-pedicab campaign among council members. Mr. Avella said his colleagues are following Ms. Quinn’s wishes […]

Co-op City Group Wants Bus Rapid Transit to Keep Its Distance

By Jason Varone | Apr 10, 2007 | 3 Comments

Even though Bus Rapid Transit may have the support of the city’s DOT, more roadblocks may await its implementation — in the form of community groups set on protecting the status quo in their neighborhoods. A dispute over one route is brewing in the Bronx, as reported in a recent Daily News story: The proposed […]

City Pitches in for Yankee Stadium Parking

By Brad Aaron | Apr 9, 2007 | 16 Comments

What could be worse than replacing neighborhood parks with private parking decks, built with the specific intent of increasing car trips by the tens of thousands through a community already suffering from so much disease-causing pollution that its nickname is "Asthma Alley"? How about forcing afflicted residents to help foot the bill? That’s what could […]

Support Builds for Carbon Taxes Over “Cap and Trade”

By Jason Varone | Apr 5, 2007 | 3 Comments

The Independent reports that European CO2 emissions are rising not falling, casting doubt on the EU’s touted Emissions Trading Scheme: Europe’s big polluters pumped more climate-changing gases into the atmosphere in 2006 than during the previous year, according to figures that show the EU’s carbon trading system failing to deliver curbs. Critics said the data […]

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