Recent Streetsblog NYC posts about Transportation Policy

Five Small Steps to a More Effective, Progressive DOT

By John Kaehny | Apr 30, 2007 | 5 Comments

With a new commissioner coming in to run New York City’s Department of Transportation, now is a good time to begin a conversation about what the agency could be doing differently to make itself more effective. DOT has a tough job. It has conflicting, and sometimes contradictory, mandates from the mayor, city council and communities […]

It’s Official: Sadik-Khan in at DOT

By Sarah Goodyear | Apr 27, 2007 | 3 Comments

After weeks of speculation, City Hall has announced that Janette Sadik-Khan, a senior vice president at Parsons Brinckerhoff, will be the new commissioner of the NYC DOT. This from a press release issued this afternoon by the mayor’s office: "Janette Sadik-Khan has a superb mix of public and private sector transportation management experience and she […]

Can Technology Make Public Transit More Alluring?

By Sarah Goodyear | Apr 27, 2007 | 5 Comments

Would they get out of their cars if they could surf the Web on the bus? A recent article in USA Today looks at technological fixes for environmental problems — including traffic — caused by America’s exploding consumption of resources. The USA is growing more rapidly than any other developed nation and is projected to […]

Is Walking PlaNYC’s Missing Mode?

By Brad Aaron | Apr 26, 2007 | 3 Comments

"Transportation has always been the key to unlocking New York’s potential." So begins the PlaNYC chapter on transportation, which for 26 pages lays out how the city can better meet the mobility needs of its existing population, plus an expected additional one million new residents, by 2030. While the document offers tantalizing details on […]

Fun With Numbers (Or: The PlaNYC Index)

By Brad Aaron | Apr 26, 2007 | 1 Comment

Number of times each of the following words or phrases appears in the PlaNYC chapter on transportation: congestion: 105 bus(es): 157 bike/bikes/biker/bicycle/bicycles/bicycling/cycling: 53 bike lane: 3 pedestrian: 9 sidewalk: 16 crosswalk: 2 safety: 7 pedestrian safety: 1 drive/driver(s)/driving: 58 car(s)/auto(s)/automobile: 27 truck(s)/truckers: 24 enforce/enforcing/enforcement: 15 speeding: 3 struck/injured/killed/fatalities: 0 Photo: faz../Flickr

Media (Mostly) Give PlaNYC Its Due

By Brad Aaron | Apr 25, 2007 | 8 Comments

When Malcom Murray-Clark, Director of Congestion Charging at Transport for London, visited New York last month, he cited negative media coverage as a major obstacle to implementing the congestion charge in the English capital. By contrast, unlike some, New York media on balance appear willing to give PlaNYC, and congestion pricing, the benefit of the […]

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