Recent Streetsblog NYC posts about Traffic

Mayor Bloomberg Says NYC Traffic Congestion is Good.

By Aaron Naparstek | | 16 Comments
Mayor Bloomberg offered a depressing-yet-enlightening dose of complacency about the city’s traffic crunch this morning. Speaking at Museum of the City of New York’s construction kickoff, Bloomberg explained that he’d arrived late because he’d been "huddled with Con Ed" to monitor power usage during the heatwave. After carping a bit about residents turning up their air […]

Atlantic Yards Traffic and Parking

By Aaron Naparstek | | No Comments
Continuing to ask the questions that don’t seem to occur to his salaried colleagues in the local media, Atlantic Yards Report’s Norman Oder has recently been digging in to the critical issues of traffic and parking around Forest City Ratner’s massive urban renewal plan for Prospect Heights, Brooklyn. Yesterday, Oder questioned the Empire State Development Corporation’s […]

Untangling Traffic: Bloomberg’s Forgotten Promise

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On July 11, 2001, Republican mayoral candidate Michael Bloomberg issued a policy paper on traffic and transportation. The paper was called "Untangling Traffic" and it’s opening sentence exclaimed, "Traffic is a mess!" Written with the help of transportation consultant and former DOT Deputy Commissioner "Gridlock" Sam Schwartz, the paper went on to detail some of […]

Jane Jacobs, 1916-2006

By Aaron Naparstek | | 6 Comments
One of the most influential urban thinkers, writers, and activists of the 20th century dies at age 89 in Toronto, Canada. "I enthusiastically endorse the campaign to close Central Park’s loop drive to regular automobile traffic. We had the same sort of fight in Washington Square Park in the late 1950s and in my neighborhood […]