Recent Streetsblog NYC posts about Transportation Policy

Sustainable Transportation for NYC: How to Make it Happen

By Sarah Goodyear | Feb 13, 2007 | 2 Comments

Today on Gotham Gazette, Bruce Schaller outlines how transportation policy could fit in to Mayor Bloomberg’s sustainability initiative for 2030. The piece merits a full read, but Schaller frames his argument in terms of three big ideas: [F]ix the skewed economic incentives to drive, implement targeted transit improvements throughout the city, and make more efficient […]

Gridlock Sam: Avert Climate Catastrophe, Ride a Vespa^®

By Aaron Naparstek | Feb 12, 2007 | 29 Comments

While Parisians are starting to complain that "an invasion of noisy scooters and motorcycles and a rise in accidents involving pedestrian and motorcyclists" is one of the "unintended consequences" of Mayor Bertrand Delanoe’s traffic reduction policies, "Gridlock" Sam Schwartz’s consulting firm just issued a report claiming that New York City could better meet its […]

Unintended Consequences of Paris’s Traffic-Reduction Policies

By Aaron Naparstek | Feb 12, 2007 | 4 Comments

Red lights mean gridlock on this real-time map of Parisian road traffic. During the launch of Paris’s new streetcar system last month, a Times of London wrote that Parisians are beginning to turn against Mayor Bertrand Delanoe’s aggressive traffic reduction measures: Paris residents, most of whom do not drive much, were until recently happy with […]

Streetfilms: “A City Is a Means to a Way of Life”

By Aaron Naparstek | Feb 9, 2007 | No Comments

Manhattan on the Move ConferenceEdited by Nick Whitaker Running time: 6 minutes 52 seconds At last October’s Manhattan Transportation Policy Conference, convened by Manhattan Borough President Scott Stringer, people from every neighborhood in Manhattan gathered to discuss a vision for the future of transportation in New York. In his keynote address, Enrique PeÃ±alosa, the former […]

Congestion Tops Citizens’ PlaNYC 2030 Concerns

By Sarah Goodyear | Feb 9, 2007 | 1 Comment

The second phase of Mayor Bloomberg’s PlaNYC 2030 outreach campaign, which has been soliciting feedback from the public through meetings with community leaders and on PlaNYC’s website, has been completed, and the word is in: People in New York want to do something about traffic congestion. So far, the website has received 52,000 visits from […]

Robert Moses’s Fundamental Misunderstanding

By Jason Varone | Feb 9, 2007 | 30 Comments

In the latest issue of the Regional Plan Association’s Spotlight on the Region newsletter, editor Alex Marshall has an outstanding essay responding to the recent burst of Robert Moses revisionism. An excerpt: It all comes down to capacity. Like many people of his generation, I’m convinced, Moses essentially didn’t understand the different capabilities of […]

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