Recent Streetsblog NYC posts about Polly Trottenberg

Car traffic exiting Prospect Park's East Drive at Grand Army Plaza on July 10. Photo: David Meyer

There's No Good Reason to Let Cars Back in Prospect Park

By David Meyer | Sep 8, 2017 | 11 Comments

Since July 17, all of Prospect Park has been continuously off-limits to private car traffic for the longest time in generations, since the loop was first allowed to become a shortcut for motorized traffic. Why not keep it that way?

DOT Commissioner Polly Trottenberg. Photo: David Meyer

Trottenberg: Dedicated Queensboro Bridge Bike Path “on the Agenda”

By David Meyer | Jul 11, 2017 | 8 Comments

DOT is looking into ways to provide better biking and walking access across the Queensboro Bridge, where the sole car-free path has been off-limits at night for much of the past two years, says Transportation Commissioner Polly Trottenberg.

Photo: Timothy A. Clary/AFP/Getty Images via Wikimedia Commons

No, Traffic Congestion Is Not “Self-Correcting”

By Charles Komanoff | Jun 7, 2017 | 38 Comments

Calling congestion "self-correcting" is a convenient way to steer the subject away from congestion pricing. The argument is that drivers can bail when congestion "gets bad enough." Problem solved -- without collective (governmental) action requiring political leadership. Let's unpack that.

New York as it was ... and as it will likely be.

Trottenberg Offers Congestion Solutions, But de Blasio Administration Won’t Touch Toll Reform

By David Meyer | Jun 5, 2017 | 19 Comments

In light of a new legal analysis that concluded NYC can toll its own streets without waiting for Albany, the Move New York campaign has proposed a "home rule" version of its road pricing plan that would charge $2.75 to drive across the four East River bridges and a 60th Street cordon and tax for-hire vehicle and taxi trips in the densest parts of Manhattan. But despite a supportive City Council, the de Blasio administration isn't adding road pricing to its agenda.

Transportation Commissioner Polly Trottenberg on the Grand Concourse yesterday. Photo: NYC DOT

The Goal for NYC Streets Should Go Beyond “Vision Zero” — The Grand Concourse Shows Why

By David Meyer | May 26, 2017 | 4 Comments

Transportation Commissioner Polly Trottenberg was in the Bronx yesterday to tout safety improvements on the Grand Concourse, historically one of the borough's most dangerous streets for walking and biking. But a lot more needs to change on the Grand Concourse, which still lacks safe, continuous bikeways and treatments to speed up trips for bus riders.

Citi Bikes aren't performing that well. Photo: Adrian Nutter/Flickr

City Hall and Motivate in Talks to Expand Citi Bike to the Bronx and Staten Island

By David Meyer | May 18, 2017 | 27 Comments

Bike-share operator Motivate is in talks with the city to increase the bicycles in its system by another 50 percent after the current round of expansion wraps up this year, including stations in the Bronx and Staten Island. City Hall would not contribute funds but would grant Motivate more favorable terms in its contract with the city.

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