Recent Streetsblog NYC posts about Transportation Policy

The Elevated Bikeways of Minneapolis?

By Ben Fried | Dec 23, 2008 | 13 Comments

Via Streetsblog Network member Twin Cities Streets for People, this vid depicts a fanciful best-case scenario should stimulus funds get funneled to highway expansion at the expense of transit, bike, and pedestrian infrastructure. Talk about unintended consequences. Excellent job by the filmmakers of putting a closed-off stretch of freeway to good use.

Want a Green Recovery? Stimulate Green Transportation

By Ben Fried | Dec 19, 2008 | 4 Comments

Rather not waste billions on stuff like this? Call your rep. Photo: dherrera_96/Flickr. The massive federal stimulus package — expected to direct hundreds of billions to infrastructure projects over the next two years — enters a critical phase this weekend as congressional leaders and the Obama team hammer out the bulk of the bill. For […]

Congestion Pricing vs. Ravitch Plan: Which is Better for the Boroughs?

By Charles Komanoff | Dec 19, 2008 | 26 Comments

Under the Ravitch Plan, driving into Manhattan over the Third Avenue Bridge will be a relative bargain for Richard Brodsky’s Westchester constituents. It’s easy to dismiss City Councilmembers Lew Fidler and Peter Vallone, Jr. as transportation troglodytes. They’ve led the pushback against bridge tolls — most recently at the City Council hearing this week on […]

Transpo Sec Rumor Mill: Rep. Ray LaHood the Leading Candidate

By Ben Fried | Dec 17, 2008 | 37 Comments

Photo: Wikipedia The Hill is reporting that Illinois Representative Ray LaHood, described as a centrist Republican, is in talks with the Obama team about taking a Cabinet post, most likely as Secretary of Transportation. The official announcement could be made as early as Friday. If LaHood is chosen, it would come as something of a […]

Why Stimulus Money Should Go to Cities, Not States

By Ben Fried | Dec 16, 2008 | 17 Comments

I spoke earlier today to David Burwell, a co-founder of the Surface Transportation Policy Project who is currently a strategic consultant with the Transportation for America campaign, about how the stimulus package is shaping up for transportation projects, why it might go wrong, and what can be done to set it on the right track. […]

Stimulus Package on Track to Perpetuate Transpo Status Quo

By Ben Fried | Dec 15, 2008 | 12 Comments

Will stimulus cash help implement New York’s five BRT pilot routes? Image: Gotham Gazette. A front page story in yesterday’s Washington Post has the most thorough analysis to date of how infrastructure spending may be divvied up in an Obama stimulus package. Nothing is set in stone, but the dividing lines are increasingly clear: States […]

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