Off-Peak Discounts for NYC Transit: An Intriguing Idea
Discounting off-peak transit service could be a boon to New York City's transportation and quality of life, so long as revenues can be found to make up for the likely farebox shortfall.
October 22, 2009
Wanted: Crowd-Sourced Transportation Analysis
My recent post refuting David Owen's attack on congestion pricing ignited a long, rich thread. Here's one comment, from "Jonathan," that struck a nerve:
October 16, 2009
Paradox, Schmaradox. Congestion Pricing Works.
We're used to seeing bizarre patterns of thinking on the Wall Street Journal's editorial pages, but an op-ed in Friday's Journal took it to a new level: “How Traffic Jams Help the Environment.”
October 13, 2009
More Than Just Same-Old at Upper East Side Bicycle Forum
From the first (and only) town-hall meeting of the Manhattan Borough President’s Planning for Pedestrians Council in 1987, to Manhattan Community Board 8’s “Bicycle Forum” this week, I’ve sat through innumerable gatherings on cyclist-pedestrian conflicts.
October 2, 2009
Packed House Applauds Bicycle Diarist Byrne and Friends
What was billed as a book reading by famed Talking Heads frontman David Byrne on Tuesday evening took on the air of a teach-in on cities and bicycles, with Byrne and fellow cycling superstars Janette Sadik-Khan and Paul Steely White taking turns extolling New York City's blooming bicycle infrastructure before a packed house at the Union Square Barnes & Noble.
September 24, 2009
Time-Polluting Daily News Honcho Goes Public
In Utah, they flip off forest rangers and wheel their ATV’s onto delicate wilderness trails. In the Virginia exurbs they lounge in air-conditioned trophy homes and write checks to stop carbon taxes. Here in NYC, they find their “Network” moment in a 25-cent bump in MTA bridge tolls, then ferret out toll-free routes into Manhattan and crow about them in the Daily News.
August 18, 2009
Bloomberg Tests Free-Transit Waters
Mayor Bloomberg lifted a page straight from the Kheel Plan playbook
yesterday in calling on the MTA to make crosstown buses free [PDF]. Bus riders and transit advocates should be beaming.
August 4, 2009
Albany’s Choice… or Ours
Thank Albany. By segmenting the 30-35 percent transit fare increase into three stages, the legislature has opened the door for a broad-based campaign to put an end to fare hikes and institute genuine transportation reform.
May 7, 2009
Needed: A Better Way to Sweeten the Ravitch Plan
Wondering how the revised version of the Ravitch plan compares to what's come before? Here's a look at the tweaks proposed yesterday by the Ravitch Commission:
April 16, 2009
Whither the MTA: Beyond the Failed Stopgap
This week’s MTA vote won’t just cost New Yorkers 25 percent more per ride, it will also be
costly in lost time.
March 27, 2009