Traffic
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Traffic Continues to Disappear in Paris
In 2001, shortly after being elected the Mayor of Paris on a platform promising to "fight, with all the means at my disposal, against the harmful, ever-increasing and unacceptable hegemony of the automobile," Bertrand Delanoë began implementing a series of far-reaching transportation reforms throughout the City of Light.
August 11, 2006
Poll: NYC Blames Bloomberg for Failure to Deal With Traffic
A Broken Street: Broadway north of Houston St. on an August Friday. New Yorkers want the Mayor to fix it.
August 7, 2006
Mayor Bloomberg Says NYC Traffic Congestion is Good.
Mayor Bloomberg offered a depressing-yet-enlightening dose of complacency about the city's traffic crunch this morning. Speaking at Museum of the City of New York's construction kickoff, Bloomberg explained that he'd arrived late because he'd been "huddled with Con Ed" to monitor power usage during the heatwave. After carping a bit about residents turning up their air conditioners at night, he turned to traffic. Normally he blames traffic for his tardiness, he noted, adding:
August 2, 2006
Atlantic Yards Traffic and Parking
Continuing to ask the questions that don't seem to occur to his salaried colleagues in the local media, Atlantic Yards Report's Norman Oder has recently been digging in to the critical issues of traffic and parking around Forest City Ratner's massive urban renewal plan for Prospect Heights, Brooklyn.
June 29, 2006
Eyes on the Street: Brooklyn Bridge, Thurs. June 29, 8:45 am
Manhattan-bound on the Brooklyn Bridge this morning,
on the way to Transportation Alternatives' City Hall rally. The traffic
jam on the right, the smog-cloaked city in the background, the sparsely
populated bike path -- this is what a broken transportation system
looks like.
June 29, 2006
Untangling Traffic: Bloomberg’s Forgotten Promise
On July 11, 2001, Republican mayoral candidate Michael Bloomberg issued a policy paper on traffic and transportation. The paper was called "Untangling Traffic" and it's opening sentence exclaimed, "Traffic is a mess!"
June 19, 2006
Jane Jacobs, 1916-2006
One of the most influential urban thinkers, writers, and activists of the 20th century dies at age 89 in Toronto, Canada.
April 25, 2006