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Showing posts with label bridge tolls. Show all posts
Showing posts with label bridge tolls. Show all posts
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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Sunday, August 24, 2014

The defeat of the power broker

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Robert Caro’s The Power Broker is one of the all-time classics of urbanism, assigned in many courses and read even by casual students of hi...
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Sunday, May 11, 2014

The return of the mixed-traffic streetcar

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I wrote before that mixed-traffic streetcars no longer make sense in this country, because whenever a corridor has enough walkable destinati...
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Sunday, March 9, 2014

Getting into Manhattan

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I've got a whole bunch of ideas for subway and bus expansions in the boroughs, commuter rail and bus expansions in the suburbs, and even...
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Monday, December 30, 2013

Expensive commutes through the XBL

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The transit commuting tax benefit parity is expiring tomorrow, and Tri-State has a list of 24 "transit systems" where a monthly t...
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Monday, March 11, 2013

The difference a lane (or toll) makes

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Stephen Smith has a great piece in the Observer showing how the Bloomberg administration has adapted its development strategy to avoid clas...
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Monday, December 3, 2012

The Pulaski Skyway, a different "freeway without a future"?

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Earlier this year the Congress for the New Urbanism released a new version of its " Freeways without futures " list. I wholeheart...
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Friday, November 16, 2012

Can transit save the environment? Not without riders

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The latest Eric Morris Freakonomics post, which I hate , got picked by Stephen Dubner for Marketplace Radio's weekly Freakonomics segme...
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Thursday, November 15, 2012

A grand bargain for walkable streets

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As I wrote before, after the failure of Mayor Bloomberg's congestion pricing campaign in 2008, advocates realized that the plan had fail...
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Saturday, October 6, 2012

How to stop them taking our money

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Okay, so what do you think all these things have in common? Bridge tolls Parking meters Traffic tickets Gas taxes Wealth tax...
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Sunday, September 30, 2012

Where to put more buses

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Recently I raised the question of what it would take to get car and plane travel on the Northeast Corridor down below 24 million trips a ye...
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Friday, September 28, 2012

Queue myopia

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Benjamen Walker has a new radio documentary out for the BBC ( MP3 ), all about waiting on line. It's definitely worth a listen. I especi...
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Thursday, August 16, 2012

A superficial charm

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The guest author for tonight's post is Robert Moses, Chairman of the Triborough Bridge and Tunnel Authority. I have access to the New Y...
Tuesday, August 7, 2012

Escaping the Tappan Zee bridge toll death spiral

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In January, Charlie Komanoff warned of a "Tappan Zee Death Spiral," similar to what happened to passenger rail in the middle of t...
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Monday, July 23, 2012

What's going to be cut to pay for the Tappan Zee Bridge replacement?

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I've been asking this question for a while. Remember that this is a bridge that shouldn't exist, and should be torn down and not re...
Friday, June 15, 2012

Community boards would stifle transit innovation

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Recently I expressed doubt that the New York Metropolitan Transportation Authority could create an innovative bus service like the Koreana ...
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Friday, June 1, 2012

The empty promise of Gridlock Sam's dollar buses

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As I wrote last week , the transit portions of "Gridlock Sam" Schwartz's transportation proposal just feel kind of bizarre and...
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