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Showing posts with label boondoggle. Show all posts
Showing posts with label boondoggle. Show all posts
Thursday, January 21, 2021

Don't make land a proxy for people

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Starrett-Lehigh Building: II. 601 West 26th Street, from Eleventh Avenue and 23rd street looking northeast past the West Side Express Highw...
Monday, November 9, 2015

The anti-bus terminal

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The Department of City Planning thinks it would be a good idea to have a bus terminal in the new "Flushing West" district that th...
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Wednesday, July 29, 2015

Our third world airport

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I remember when Joe Biden remarked that LaGuardia Airport felt like the Third World to him. I remember thinking, "What the fuck is thi...
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Saturday, May 2, 2015

The long game in transit advocacy

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While I generally appreciate other transit activists, I’ve criticized plenty of them in the past. Recently I’ve figured out what it is that...
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Sunday, February 8, 2015

Transit setback roundup: I can't even

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These past few weeks have been discouraging for me as a transit advocate. From almost every * level of government I've heard elected ...
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Thursday, January 15, 2015

Driving to the walkway

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Among the many crazy things about the new Tappan Zee Bridge, one of the craziest is the way that some environmentalists seem to melt into so...
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Sunday, December 7, 2014

Where is the roads and bridges settlement?

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It was a big con game, and many of the biggest con artists believed their own hype. "It can never go down!" they cried. They del...
Tuesday, November 25, 2014

The cargo cult of railyard decks

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I recently wrote about a proposal to build a deck over the Sunnyside Yards . This got me thinking about these projects in general. I'...
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Monday, November 17, 2014

When bike paths are not transportation

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I've written before about the capacity of bike paths to move large numbers of people. A dedicated bike path performs this function best...
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Saturday, November 8, 2014

Decking the Sunnyside Yards: the history of a fantasy

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Becoming the Yards: 1643: Burger Jorrisen receives the first patent for farmland near the swamps surrounding the Dutch Kills. 1861: The Lo...
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Saturday, November 1, 2014

The problems with the yards

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I live in Woodside, Queens, not too far from Sunnyside. I love both neighborhoods, but there are a few problems. Recently, urban planners ...
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Sunday, October 26, 2014

What do low Tappan Zee Bridge tolls mean for you?

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Do you drive to work across the bridge? Hooray! Your commute from your house in Rockland with the big yard to the office park in Westchest...
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Thursday, August 7, 2014

The McCarter Highway, freeway without a future

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Back in March I was honored to nominate Newark (together with Michael Klatsky) for Streetsblog's coveted Parking Crater award. I'm...
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Tuesday, May 6, 2014

Imagining desire lines

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You've seen them: lines where the grass is worn down, the evidence that enough people have walked a particular route as to kill the gras...
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Friday, February 28, 2014

Strong towns don't have pension problems

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Joe Nocera and Rana Foroohar were talking about municipal pension woes this morning. Or at least that's what Charlie Herman told them ...
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Wednesday, February 5, 2014

The expense of East Side Access

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The news is that the Long Island Rail Road East Side Access project, initially forecast to cost $4.3 billion and be completed in 2009 is no...
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Monday, January 27, 2014

New transit and our goals

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It's pretty much a no-brainer that anything that optimizes existing transit use will help us toward our goals. Getting people out of ca...
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Monday, September 23, 2013

Who's fighting car dependence?

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Earlier this month I talked about how car dependence is overdetermined , with at least seven more or less independent factors influencing it...
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Monday, April 8, 2013

Will "Willets West" relieve Flushing Meadows's parking curse?

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One of the least pleasant things about Flushing Meadows is the sheer amount of parking, as I've helpfully highlighted for you on the Goo...
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