Recent Streetsblog NYC posts about Transportation Policy

StreetFilms: Interview with Parking Guru Donald Shoup

By Sarah Goodyear | Mar 20, 2007 | No Comments

Donald Shoup on the High Cost of Free Parking Running time: 6 minutes 37 seconds "I don’t see why people have to pay market rents to live in a neighborhood but the cars should live rent-free. In New York you have expensive housing for people and free parking for cars. You’ve got your priorities exactly […]

Mayor Bloomberg at the Crossroads: Who Will Run DOT?

By Aaron Naparstek | Mar 20, 2007 | 13 Comments

With DOT Commissioner Iris Weinshall set to depart city government in three weeks, sources say that Mayor Michael Bloomberg is close to announcing her replacement. The Mayor’s choice will have a profound impact on day-to-day neighborhood life as well as the City of New York’s long-term future. Though the DOT commissioner job search has barely […]

Park Slope says: “One Way? No Way.” CB6 says: “Let’s Study It.”

By Sarah Goodyear | Mar 19, 2007 | 9 Comments

In the aftermath of last Thursday’s CB6 transportation committee meeting on the DOT’s proposal to convert Sixth and Seventh Avenues in Park Slope, Brooklyn to one-way arterials, some observers are noting that the motion that came out of the meeting may not accurately reflect the input of the nearly 700 people who came out to […]

Doctoroff Sets Stage for Something Bold, Creative & Expensive

By Aaron Naparstek | Mar 16, 2007 | 10 Comments

O Yesterday, Deputy Mayor Dan Doctoroff and MTA President Lee Sander delivered a pair of one-two speeches at the annual meeting of the New York Metropolitan Transportation Council. Sadly, the report I wrote up yesterday afternoon was eaten by my blog software. It was really good too. Much more entertaining than this one. What are […]

Coverage of Last Night’s Park Slope Meeting

By Aaron Naparstek | Mar 16, 2007 | 18 Comments

Big Crowd of Slopers Turn Out to Jeer One-Way Proposal (Gowanus Lounge) 400+ Slopers Deride DOT Plans for Sixth and Seventh Avenues (Yards Report) Slope Weighs One-Way Byways (Voice) Board votes down one-way proposal (Brooklyn Paper) Jonathan Barkey photos

DOT’s Park Slope One-Way Presentation

By Aaron Naparstek | Mar 16, 2007 | 7 Comments

Above is a bootlegged copy of DOT Deputy Commissioner Michael Primeggia’s Park Slope one-way traffic presentation. Though the plan is supposedly all about improving pedestrian safety, you can see for yourself that it is almost entirely concerned with the movement and flow of motor vehicles and the calculation of "vehicular level of service." In this […]

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