Recent Streetsblog NYC posts about Transportation Policy

DOT’s Missed Opportunity on the Manhattan Bridge

By Aaron Naparstek | Oct 16, 2006 | 13 Comments

On Friday, Department of Transportation Commissioner Iris Weinshall stood up in front of 600 people at Borough President Stringer’s Transportation Policy Conference and said that her agency was serious about reducing car use in New York City. It was a great policy speech. Then on Sunday morning I flipped on the radio and heard that […]

‘Unnecessary Driving’ Banned in Buffalo

By Aaron Donovan | Oct 14, 2006 | 1 Comment

Photo: Mike Groll/Associated Press via The New York Times BUFFALO, N.Y., Oct. 13, 2006 (AP) — A rare early October snowstorm left parts of western New York blanketed with 2 feet of snow Friday morning. … Unnecessary driving was banned in Buffalo and suburbs Amherst, Blasdell, Orchard Park and Hamburg.

The Iris Weinshall Renaissance

By Aaron Naparstek | Oct 13, 2006 | 10 Comments

DOT Commissioner Iris Weinshall’s speech was, for many long-time Livable Streets advocates, the single most remarkable aspect of yesterday’s Manhattan Transportation Policy Conference. As Jon Orcutt at TSTC noted, Weinshall’s speech "laid out an array of measures to improve New York’s pedestrian and bicycling environments, soften the quality of life impacts of heavy traffic, and […]

Congestion Charging Rumor Mill

By Aaron Naparstek | Oct 13, 2006 | 9 Comments

Three congestion charging rumors, all from excellent, though, un-named sources: 1. Bob Kiley, the Transport for London Commissioner who oversaw the design and implementation of that city’s successful congestion charging system is joining Parson’s Brinckerhoff in New York City. Parsons is the global engineering firm that has been leading the Partnership for New York City’s […]

Live-Blogging the Manhattan Transpo Policy Conference

By Aaron Naparstek | Oct 12, 2006 | 19 Comments

I’m up at Columbia University covering Borough President Stringer’s Transportation Policy Conference, live: 10:40 am: Enrique Peñalosa, the former mayor of Bogotá, Colombia is the keynote speaker. In only one three-year term as Mayor, Penalosa revolutionized the transportation system and public spaces of his city of 7 million (Mayors only get one term in office […]

New Bike Markings on the Upper West Side

By Aaron Naparstek | Oct 11, 2006 | 6 Comments

It looks like the City’s promise to build out the bike network is already bearing fruit. Streetsblog reader Alex Kahl sends along these photos of new bike lane markings being striped on W. 77th and W. 78th Street near Columbus Avenue. Unlike the new, Class III, "shared lane" markings spotted yesterday in the middle of […]

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