Recent Streetsblog NYC posts about Transportation Policy

Bloomberg Admin Misses “Golden Opportunity” on Intro. 199

By Jason Varone | Feb 26, 2007 | No Comments

In the latest issue of Mobilizing the Region, the Tri-State Transportation Campaign questions how the Bloomberg Administration’s purported commitment to long-term planning and sustainability squares with the Department of Transportation’s opposition to Intro. 199, City Council legislation aimed at collecting better data on how New York City’s streets are managed and used: Testifying before the […]

A Weekend Subway Ride With Robert Moses

By Aaron Donovan | Feb 26, 2007 | 15 Comments

I entered a turnstile in the Financial District on Saturday, bound for the Upper West Side. The 2 train was running on the east side and the 3 wasn’t running at all below 14th Street. So I went instead to the A and the C platform. The C train wasn’t running, period. With the C train out and the 2 and 3 trains […]

The Times Applauds Cycling… The Times of London, That Is.

By Charles Komanoff | Feb 23, 2007 | 7 Comments

Here’s an editorial one wouldn’t expect to see in The Times: An unabashedly pro-bicycle manifesto anointing cycling as "the cheap, green answer to so many contemporary troubles" and urging city authorities to use congestion-charging revenues to create a first-class cycling infrastructure. Alas, this remarkable editorial was published not in the New York Times, but in […]

Sources Say…

By Aaron Naparstek | Feb 22, 2007 | 5 Comments

DOT Commissioner Kate Ascher: "It’s not happening. It’s not possible. That information is incorrect." DOT Commissioner Joan McDonald: "It’s a very complicated agency, a huge bureaucracy with lots of moving parts and serious work to be done. If they took someone who has been here before, already had knowledge of the agency and who has […]

Mayor Livingstone Extends Congestion Charge Westward

By Jason Varone | Feb 22, 2007 | 6 Comments

The BBC reports: London’s congestion charge zone roughly doubled in size with a westward expansion coming into force. The £8-a-day road toll scheme now takes in most of Westminster and Kensington and Chelsea in west London. Mayor of London Ken Livingstone said: "The zone was, until now, one of the most congested areas in the […]

How to Improve Travel Times and Transit Capacity?

By Glenn McAnanama | Feb 22, 2007 | 31 Comments

Earlier this week, I received a request in writing from Gary Altman, the Legislative Counsel of the City Council to testify at a hearing on March 1st. The topic of this oversight hearing is: How do we achieve the PlanNYC2030’s Sustainability Goal to Improve Travel Times by Adding Transit Capacity for Millions More Residents, Visitors and Workers? For reference […]

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