Recent Streetsblog NYC posts about Transportation Policy

Brooklyn to City Hall: Give us Planning Not Traffic Engineering

By Aaron Naparstek | Mar 16, 2007 | 23 Comments

Last night the transportation committee of Community Board 6 fully and unequivocally rejected the Department of Transportation’s proposal to transform Park Slope, Brooklyn’s Sixth and Seventh Avenues into one-way arterials. I am a member of the commitee and typically we have about 15 people in the room. A big meeting will be 35. Last night, […]

The Power of Parking Policy

By Josh Brustein | Mar 15, 2007 | 4 Comments

This is the third in a three-part series on New York City parking policy.Part 1: The New York City Parking Boom Part 2: Parking: If You Build it They Will Come… in Their Cars Over the course of the last year, New York City’s transportation policy community has spent tremendous time, energy and money pursuing […]

StreetFilms: One Way is the Wrong Way

By Aaron Naparstek | Mar 14, 2007 | 10 Comments

StreetFilms: One Way is the Wrong Way Running time: 5 minutes 10 seconds In Park Slope, Brooklyn, the Department of Transportation has put forward a plan to convert a pair of two-way neighborhood avenues to one-way operation. DOT says that the plan is designed strictly "to make it safer for pedestrians crossing the street," but […]

Why Is Saudi Arabia’s Oil Production Down?

By Aaron Donovan | Mar 14, 2007 | 11 Comments

We still have three years and nine and a half months to learn who will win the bet between energy investment banker Matthew R. Simmons and New York Times columnist John Tierney over whether oil prices would be above or below $200 a barrel in 2010. Tierney bet "below" because he believes that over the long term, the prices […]

DOT’s Park Slope Proposal: Is this Atlantic Yards Planning?

By Aaron Naparstek | Mar 13, 2007 | 6 Comments

Last week, DOT quietly revealed that it was planning to narrow Fourth Avenue and transform Park Slope, Brooklyn’s Sixth and Seventh Avenues in to one-way streets. Agency officials say that the the changes are being proposed for no reason other than "to make it safer for pedestrians crossing the street." Fourth, Sixth and Seventh Avenues […]

“Parking Rock Star” Donald Shoup Plays Broadway

By Neil deMause | Mar 13, 2007 | 6 Comments

Early Friday morning, more than 100 transportation experts and advocates descended on the garish hell that is New Times Square to hear a two-hour presentation about parking. In a cozy theater across the street from Dave and Buster’s, UCLA urban planner Donald Shoup held forth on his much-discussed ideas for reforming traffic via "market-based" street […]

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