Recent Streetsblog NYC posts about Transportation Policy

Can Sprawl Be Beneficial?

By Aaron Donovan | Oct 4, 2006 | 20 Comments

Panelists on suburban sprawl: Eugenie Birch, James Russell, Robert Bruegmann and Alexander Garvin. Folks who went to yesterday’s Municipal Art Society forum "Can Sprawl Be Beneficial" heard what must be the best possible defense for suburban sprawl from one of its recently arrived boosters: "I’m not saying that sprawl is good," said author Robert Bruegmann. "All I’m saying is that […]

Notes on Bicycling in Copenhagen

By Aaron Naparstek | Oct 4, 2006 | 20 Comments

Copenhagen, Denmark is not a natural bicycling city. In the early 1960’s it was very much of a car town. In 1962 the city created its first pedestrian street, the Stroget, and every year since then Copenhagen has allocated more and more of its public space to bicycles, pedestrians and people who just want to sit […]

Traffic’s Human Toll

By Aaron Naparstek | Oct 3, 2006 | No Comments

For the last two years or so Transportation Alternatives’ Karla Quintero has been working on a New York City-based update of the famous "Appleyard Study" examining the social costs of traffic. Karla presented the study’s preliminary findings last year at a forum I helped organize in Brooklyn and it was really interesting. This event is sure to be a […]

Danish Bike Cargo

By Aaron Naparstek | Oct 3, 2006 | 12 Comments

How do you measure a city’s bike-friendliness? Do you count the number of lane miles, daily commuters or annual injuries? Here is one set of metrics that I found in Copenhagen:

Pricing for Sustainability

By Aaron Donovan | Oct 2, 2006 | 6 Comments

In his weekly radio address yesterday, Mayor Bloomberg discussed some steps his administration is taking toward a sustainable future, including the creation of an Office of Long-Term Planning and Sustainability, and a Sustainability Advisory Board, which held its first meeting last week. Long-term sustainability is of course right up Streetsblog’s alley. Correspondent Charles Komanoff donned his […]

Learning From a Streets Renaissance in Hong Kong

By Ethan Kent | Sep 28, 2006 | 10 Comments

If New York or other large cities are looking for a solution to congestion and its negative impact on the economy, Hong Kong offers an excellent strategy and success story. I was there a few weeks back working on waterfront issues (that rival New York City for unrealized opportunities), and was struck by changes that have taken […]

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