Recent Streetsblog NYC posts about Studies & Reports

The State of American Infrastructure Spending in Four Charts

By Angie Schmitt | May 21, 2015 | No Comments

If you’ve checked the news on the subject of American transportation infrastructure lately, you’ve probably heard that the sky is falling. It’s true that Congress can’t get its act together and pass a decent transportation bill, but the amount of money that’s being spent isn’t the problem so much as the fact that we’re spending it […]

More New Yorkers Are Getting to Work Without Getting in Their Cars

By Stephen Miller | May 6, 2015 | 11 Comments

New York City is getting to be even more of a transit town. From 2000 to 2013, the share of working New Yorkers who commute by transit rose from 52.6 percent to 59.1 percent, while the share who commute by car dropped from 33.9 percent to 27.4 percent, according to a new analysis from the New York University Furman […]

Which Matters More — A Bike Network’s Connectivity or Its Density?

By Angie Schmitt | Apr 20, 2015 | No Comments

What’s the secret to designing a bicycle network that will get people riding? A pair of researchers at the University of Minnesota recently set out to test the theory that a connected bike network — where bike lanes provide continuous routes between many possible destinations — is a major determinant of how many people bike. What they actually found was a […]

TA: De Blasio Must Undo Construction Budget Cuts to Fix Dangerous Streets

By Stephen Miller | Mar 19, 2015 | 7 Comments

Arterial streets — the city’s big, busy, highway-like roadways — cover just 15 percent of the New York City street network but account for nearly 60 percent of all pedestrian fatalities. The city will have to overhaul these streets to achieve Mayor de Blasio’s Vision Zero goals. And to make those changes, the city must reverse cuts to its roadway reconstruction budget, according to a new report […]

Just in From London: Congestion Charging’s Street Safety Bonus

By Charles Komanoff | Mar 11, 2015 | 10 Comments

Add street safety to the list of benefits from congestion pricing. That’s the takeaway from a new “working paper” analyzing traffic crash rates in and around the London congestion charging zone by three economists associated with the Management School at Lancaster University. “Traffic Accidents and the London Congestion Charge” slices and dices the monthly changes […]

RPA: Growing Outer Boroughs Need New Generation of Transit Investment

By Stephen Miller | Feb 11, 2015 | 11 Comments

With the boroughs outside Manhattan adding people and jobs faster than the city core, New York needs to reorient its transit priorities, argues the Regional Plan Association in a new report. The authors warn that increasing travel in the other boroughs will strain the local bus system and lead more people to drive, causing more traffic congestion and […]

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