Recent Streetsblog NYC posts about Transportation Policy

Separated at Birth?

By Aaron Naparstek | Oct 11, 2006 | 5 Comments

You know that a change in the zeitgeist is afoot when Manhattan Borough President Scott Stringer’s transportation policy conference tomorrow provides fodder for the New York Post’s Page Six: We Hear That… some of the city’s better known alternative transportation advocates – Moby, David Byrne and Matthew Modine – plan to pedal over on their […]

Would you pay a Half Dollar to Bike Across the GWB?

By Aaron Naparstek | Oct 10, 2006 | 10 Comments

An outraged reader points us to Benepe’s Bike Blog where journalist, cyclist (and sister of New York City’s Parks Commissioner) Jennifer Benepe has been working to improve bicycle access to the George Washington Bridge. In a letter to the Port Authority Benepe suggests that cyclists would be happy to pay a fifty cent toll to cross the […]

Important Manhattan Transportation Forum on Thursday

By Glenn McAnanama | Oct 10, 2006 | 4 Comments

Manhattan Borough President Scott Stringer is holding a day-long forum on Manhattan’s transportation future. Enrique Peñalosa, former Mayor of Bogota, Colombia, will be the keynote speaker. This should be a great event. Peñalosa is the inspiring and visionary politician who transformed his city of 7 million into a model for sustainable urban transportation. In recent months Peñalosa […]

Stockholm: Congestion Charging is Likely to Continue

By Aaron Naparstek | Oct 9, 2006 | 15 Comments

Last month residents of Stockholm, Sweden voted in a citywide referendum to continue that city’s experiment with congestion charging. By charging motorists a fee to drive into the city center, congestion charging had successfully reduced the amount of time Stockholm motorists spent waiting in traffic by 30 to 50 percent while significantly reducing air pollution and providing […]

Eyes on the Street: Amsterdam

By Aaron Naparstek | Oct 6, 2006 | 8 Comments

After Copenhagen, I visited Holland for a few days as a part of my German Marshall Fellowship. I will be writing more about some of the people I met and spoke with there, but for now I just wanted to share these photos from Amsterdam: For me, one of the things that makes Amsterdam and […]

Job Opening

By Aaron Naparstek | Oct 6, 2006 | No Comments

The Department of Transportation’s Bicycle Group is hiring. Know anyone good for the job? The New York City Department of Transportation is embarking on an aggressive campaign to expand the City’s on-street network of bicycle lanes and routes to facilitate the use of bicycles as an emission-free mode of transportation. Over the next three years, […]

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