Recent Streetsblog NYC posts about Highways

Brian Ketcham Proposes a “Simpler, Cheaper Traffic Fix”

By Aaron Naparstek | Nov 14, 2007 | 41 Comments

Distribution of vehicles entering Manhattan CBD by direction and pricing status (Zupan & Perrotta, 2003). In an op/ed piece in Monday’s Daily News, Brooklyn-based transportation consultant Brian Ketcham proposed some changes to Mayor Bloomberg’s congestion pricing plan. Ketcham, who has been pushing for some form of congestion pricing since his time working for the Lindsay […]

Eyes on the Street: Too Little Too Late on the FDR

By Jason Varone | Jun 21, 2007 | 9 Comments

The Perfect Argument for Congestion Pricing

By Aaron Donovan | Jun 19, 2007 | 15 Comments

The Staten Island Advance ran an article last Thursday about a "perfect storm" of crushing Staten Island-bound traffic on the Gowanus Expressway and the Verrazano-Narrows Bridge. To give you a sense of the frustrated tone of the article, it was entitled "21-Month Nightmare: Agency Offers Zero Solutions for Verrazano Lane Mess." Here’s how it began: […]

Brainstorming a New Vision for Midtown’s East River Waterfront

By Jason Varone | Jun 13, 2007 | 13 Comments

The Municipal Art Society of New York, City Council member Dan Garodnick, and Manhattan’s Community Board 6 ran an intensive day-long workshop last Wednesday to develop a new vision for Midtown’s inaccessible East River waterfront. On Sunday, MAS unveiled some of the results. From the MAS press release: "By realigning and lowering the 42nd Street […]

Call for Ped Safety Measures on Third and Fourth Avenues

By Sarah Goodyear | Jun 11, 2007 | 1 Comment

A third-grader was hit on her way to school here two weeks ago. You have to move fast to beat the turning traffic on Fourth Avenue. DOT Deputy Commissioner for Brooklyn Dalila Hall faced some tough questioning from members of the public at a meeting on pedestrian safety on Third and Fourth avenues in Brooklyn […]

They Come to Bury the BQE, Not to Praise It

By Sarah Goodyear | Apr 20, 2007 | 17 Comments

The Brooklyn Paper reports that there’s talk brewing about seizing an opportunity to bury the section of the BQE that runs underneath the Promenade, rather than simply repair it (right, the Atlantic Ave. overpass where the roadway rises near the site of the proposed Brooklyn Bridge Park and the One Brooklyn condo development): Some Brooklyn […]

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