Recent Streetsblog NYC posts about Commuting

NYC Car Commuters Are Wealthier and Cops All Drive to Work

By Aaron Naparstek | Dec 11, 2007 | 56 Comments

I’m not sure that this particular set of facts matters one bit to Traffic Mitigation Commission member Richard Brodsky, who claims to represent the little guy in the congestion pricing debate, but New York City’s Independent Budget Office released a report today demolishing the argument that pricing is unfair to the poor and working class […]

Lew Fidler’s “9 CARAT STONE” Traffic Plan Arrives

By Aaron Naparstek | Nov 1, 2007 | 84 Comments

On Saturday we received the following mysterious e-mail in the Streetsblog tips box: Subject: Plan to be Revealed to go up against Mayor’s Congestion Pricing A major announcement will soon be made that will reveal a whole new plan for how NYC will handle traffic congestion, mass transit, air pollution and land re-development. A plan […]

Bloomberg Visits the Bronx. Dinowitz Anti-Pricing Rally Fizzles.

By Aaron Naparstek | Oct 31, 2007 | 3 Comments

Mayor Bloomberg and city agency commissioners answered questions in Riverdale last night. Megan Chuchmach reports: The auditorium at PS 24 in Riverdale was packed Tuesday night, as Mayor Michael Bloomberg and his commissioners entertained an estimated couple hundred Bronx residents at a town hall-esque style meeting organized by the Northwest Bronx Democratic Alliance and the […]

Finally: A Spot to Talk About Parking

By Jason Varone | Oct 31, 2007 | No Comments

Climate change, Iranian nukes, the declining dollar, a $100 barrel of oil… Sure, all of that stuff is important but not as important as parking or New York City’s lack thereof. New York City’s venerable neighborhood associations and civic groups will be ecstatic to hear that the Department of Transportation is convening a series of […]

Pricing Hearings Begin With Away Double-Header

By Brad Aaron | Oct 25, 2007 | 6 Comments

The first hearings conducted by the New York City Traffic Congestion Mitigation Commission were held yesterday, with one in White Plains and another at Hofstra University. Newsday reports on the latter: Congestion pricing is a "sensible solution" to traffic tie-ups that cost the region $13 billion and 52,000 jobs a year, said Josh Klainberg, deputy […]

Bike Snob NYC Shows You How It’s Done

By Sarah Goodyear | Oct 25, 2007 | 15 Comments

One of the keenest and most unforgiving observers of bike culture in this town, in all its glory and absurdity, is the blogger Bike Snob NYC. A couple of weeks back, he posted a chronicle of his bike commute from Brooklyn to Manhattan that had me shaking my head in recognition at every turn. […]

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