Recent Streetsblog NYC posts about Transportation Policy

40,000+ U.S. Buses Are Equipped With Bike Racks. None in NYC.

By Jason Varone | Feb 9, 2007 | 13 Comments

Via the National Center for Bicycling & Walking’s Centerlines Newsletter, the National Center for Transit Research reports: "Over 40,000 buses at more than 300 transit agencies in the U.S. are equipped with bike racks, and an estimated 670,000 bikes-on-transit trips are provided each month… Photo: brandonzwa/Flickr

The Subway Should Be Free

By Aaron Donovan | Feb 9, 2007 | 32 Comments

George Haikalis of the Institute for Rational Urban Mobility, with microphone. Environmentalist Theodore W. Kheel, seated next to him, at far right, would reduce the subway fare to nothing. On December 23, 1943, the New York City subways carried more than 8 million people, said the labor relations arbitrator and environmentalist Theodore W. Kheel last night at […]

Another Free-Market Argument for Congestion Pricing

By Sarah Goodyear | Feb 9, 2007 | 8 Comments

An opinion piece in today’s New York Sun addresses the congestion-pricing incentives laid out in the Bush Administration’s new budget proposal. The article, by Diana Furchtgott-Roth, a former chief economist at the US Department of Labor who is now with the conservative Hudson Institute, argues that "the only effective way to reduce traffic congestion is […]

DOT: “Our Job is to Keep Traffic Moving, Not Pedestrian Safety”

By Aaron Naparstek | Feb 8, 2007 | 12 Comments

Scribner Avenue, New Brighton, Staten Island, formerly two- and now one-way, looking up the hill toward Bismarck Avenue from Westervelt Avenue Streetsblog reader Dan Icolari became curious about changes that were being made on his neighborhood streets in Staten Island. In researching the issue he found that progressive policy statements coming out of Department of […]

Is a 1.3 mph Increase in Crosstown Traffic Speed “Innovative?”

By Jason Varone | Feb 7, 2007 | 6 Comments

The Staten Island Advance reports on Monday’s press conference outlining the qualities that leading City Council members would like to see in the next DOT Commissioner. The Bloomberg Administration responded to the Council with the following statement: The Mayor will appoint a commissioner who will carry out policies to meet the sustainability challenges he […]

Driving Mrs. Kelly

By Aaron Naparstek | Feb 7, 2007 | 9 Comments

Police columnist Len Levitt of NYPD Confidential has an interesting piece on Commissioner Ray Kelly’s use of his official security detail to chauffeur his wife on personal trips at taxpayer expense. My first reaction would be a big "So what?" except for three things: State Comptroller Alan Hevesi was forced from office earlier this year […]

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