Recent Streetsblog NYC posts about Technology

De Blasio Calls For Vision Zero Apps. How Much Data Will He Release?

By Stephen Miller | May 6, 2014 | 3 Comments

BigApps NYC, EDC’s four-month competition to develop mobile and web applications using city data, is set to launch tomorrow with a mission from Mayor Bill de Blasio to build tools for Vision Zero. The more data the city opens up to developers, the better these apps will be, so the question now is how far City Hall […]

NYPD: Public Too Stupid to Understand a Citywide Crash Map

By Stephen Miller | Oct 10, 2013 | 41 Comments

This morning’s City Council transportation committee hearing covered a number of bills, including one that would require NYPD to release data to the Department of Information Technology and Telecommunications for a public map of crash locations and traffic fatalities, to be updated monthly. NYPD testified in opposition to the bill, claiming that it was already […]

Bus Time Went Live in Manhattan This Morning

By Stephen Miller | Oct 7, 2013 | 2 Comments

After signs went up in subway stations last week, the MTA made it official this morning: real-time bus tracking is now available for all Manhattan buses, joining Staten Island and the Bronx, with Queens and Brooklyn to come online within six months. Bus Time for Manhattan buses appeared shortly after midnight last night, adding 36 routes […]

Bus Time Set to Expand to Manhattan This Month; Queens and Brooklyn Next

By Stephen Miller | Oct 3, 2013 | 6 Comments

Nearly a year after the Bronx became the second borough to get real-time bus tracking on all its buses, the MTA’s Bus Time program is set to expand to Manhattan this month, according to signs spotted in Manhattan subway stations by Twitter user David Rose and Second Avenue Sagas. In March, the MTA announced that […]

Meet Streetmix, the Website Where You Can Design Your Own Street

By Stephen Miller | Aug 12, 2013 | 21 Comments

Last fall, Lou Huang was at a community meeting for the initiative to redesign Second Street in San Francisco. Planners handed out paper cutouts, allowing participants to mix and match to create their ideal street. Huang, an urban designer himself, thought the exercise would make for a great website. Now, after months of work beginning at a January […]

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