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COMMUTE’s BRT Plan: A Denser Network and Interborough Lines
COMMUTE's proposals for BRT routes in the five boroughs, shown next to DOT's current plan. View an enlarged version.
April 25, 2008
Paco Abraham Turns Duane Reade on to Bike Racks
Yesterday DOT announced it is seeking submissions for the first ever bike-friendly business awards. This being the week of Earth Day, a few bike-positive firms have come to our attention recently -- Macy's, W Hotels, J Crew -- but the most substantial business-led effort to improve the city's cycling environment this year may have come from Duane Reade. The omnipresent drugstore chain has asked the city to install bike racks at all its New York locations -- 150 in Manhattan plus dozens more in the outer boroughs.
April 24, 2008
How Paris is Beating Traffic Without Congestion Pricing
Biking by the Seine during car-free hours on the Georges Pompidou Expressway.
April 22, 2008
Jessica Lappin: Congestion Pricing Advocate
This recent constituent e-mail shows that Council Member Jessica Lappin's lukewarm support for congestion pricing seems to have turned into full-fledged support now that the proposal has no chance of being implemented (taking a page out of Assemblywoman Joan Millman's book). In Lappin's defense, she did vote for pricing when it came before the council. But it might have been helpful had she found her voice a few months -- or even weeks -- before the plan went to Albany.
April 15, 2008
Après Congestion Pricing, It’s Time to Look at the Paris Model
Amsterdam Ave. and 76th St. with street space reallocated to walkers, bikes and buses.
April 15, 2008
What Glick’s District Will Lose Without Congestion Pricing
With the fate of congestion pricing likely to be decided over the weekend, we're going to beat this drum some more this afternoon.
April 4, 2008
What Your District Loses Without Congestion Pricing
The Campaign for New York's Future has some handy fact sheets on the transit upgrades outlined in the MTA 2008-2013 Capital Plan, broken down by city and state electoral districts. Since many of these projects will be threatened without the hundreds of millions in annual revenues expected from congestion pricing, some legislators may need to be reminded of what's at stake.
April 4, 2008
We Win!!!… a Trip to Albany?
This morning's Crain's Insider names Streetsblog one of the winners of Monday's congestion pricing vote in City Council. While we're honored, no one around here is spiking the ball or dancing in the end zone until New York's famously dysfunctional state legislature is done doing whatever it is they're going to do to the plan. Richard Brodksy is, for now, a loser who "overplayed his hand."
April 2, 2008
NYC’s First Bus Rapid Transit Line Debuts in the Bronx
L-R: Assembly Members José Rivera and Adriano Espaillat, Mayor Michael Bloomberg, DOT Commissioner Janette Sadik-Khan, MTA CEO Lee Sander and Bronx Borough President Adolfo Carrión at Fordham Plaza today
March 25, 2008
Pricing Hearing: Sadik-Khan and Aggarwala Explain the Details
Yesterday morning's hearing at City Hall, which garnered much press today, gave Janette Sadik-Khan and Rohit Aggarwala the chance to clarify a number of misconceptions about congestion pricing in front of a sizable contingent of City Council members. As expected, one of the first points to come up was whether drivers from New Jersey will contribute anything to the congestion pricing revenue stream. Turns out they will.
March 25, 2008