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Pint-Sized Parks Make Safer Streets and Cleaner Rivers
The Greenstreet at 110th and Amsterdam helps keep sewage out of city rivers and features a beefed-up, traffic-calming "blockbuster."
February 14, 2008
Bloomberg Touches on Safe Streets, Pricing in State of the City
Mayor Bloomberg delivered his seventh State of the City Address yesterday morning at Flushing Meadows Corona Park. The speech had several nuggets of news and info related to livable streets issues.
January 18, 2008
As Anti-Pricing Arguments Fall Away, It’s Just Parking & Politics
Over the weekend, City Council Member David Weprin and "Keep NYC Congestion Tax Free" spokesman Walter McCaffrey got a lot of press by casting doubt on whether congestion pricing revenues would, as promised, be invested in transit. It looks like a plan was already in the works to allay that fear.
January 17, 2008
Will the Tide Turn on City Parking Policy?
A few weeks back Atlantic Yards Report posted a compendium of recent writings that point to the contradictions inherent in, and problems resulting from, parking requirements for urban development plans.
January 15, 2008
Highlights of Monday’s Traffic Commission Meeting
Westchester Assemblyman Richard Brodsky's claim that congestion pricing "smacks the middle class" was not challenged by reporters after Monday's meeting despite a recent IBO report that says otherwise. Brodsky said a carbon tax would be fairer and praised Mayor Bloomberg for suggesting it.
December 19, 2007
Kheel Plan: Double the Congestion Charge & Make Transit Free
"If you were to design the ultimate system, you would have mass transit be free and charge an enormous amount for cars."
December 18, 2007
Is the Mayor Reading Streetsblog on His Bloomberg Terminal?
Cities won't wait for national governments to solve their pressing problems, argues Michael Bloomberg, the mayor of New York City in this week's Economist:
December 13, 2007
Pricing Alternatives Fail the “Reality Test”
A side-by-side comparison of PlaNYC congestion pricing and alternatives offered by pricing opponents shows that the Bloomberg proposal is the only one that would have an immediate impact on auto traffic while improving transit. Further, the report concludes that plans put forth by Congressman Anthony Weiner, Council Member Lew Fidler, and Keep NYC Congestion Tax Free would actually promote driving.
December 5, 2007
Congestion Panel Considers Shrinking Zone and Tolling Bridges
The Traffic Congestion Mitigation Commission wants to reduce the size of the proposed congestion pricing zone, replace cameras with higher parking fees, and possibly toll the East River bridges, according to a (subscription only) story by Erik Engquist in Crain's New York Business today.
December 3, 2007
MTA Chief Lee Sander Gets Megamodal
The Fall 2007 issue of the NYU Rudin Center's New York Transportation Journal is out and for anyone looking to delve into some wonkish, big picture, regional transportation policy issues, it's worth a download.
November 30, 2007