Cap'n Transit Rides Again

Here are some reasons to get people to shift from cars to transit:

Reducing pollution
Increasing efficiency
Reducing carnage
Improving society
Access for all

▼

Showing posts with label brooklyn. Show all posts

Showing posts with label brooklyn. Show all posts

Sunday, April 15, 2018

Transmillennial NYC?

A while back I was arguing with someone about "Bus Rapid Transit," and they suggested that New York should emulate the system used...

Thursday, August 21, 2014

The O Train to Avenue H

One subway expansion proposal that always gets mentioned by people, but has never gotten any official funding or planning, is the "Trib...

Thursday, July 31, 2014

Could we build another Park Slope?

Do you like the modern towers of the Upper East Side? Photo: Peter Cigliano / Flickr. How about a nice gigantic Upper West Side prewar a...

Thursday, July 24, 2014

Why we need a Brooklyn Bridge cycle track

I remember when you could walk or bike over the Brooklyn Bridge at almost any hour and not feel crowded. Those days are long past: walking ...

Tuesday, May 6, 2014

Imagining desire lines

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...

Wednesday, April 30, 2014

Estimating crowded subways

It turns out that there's another hitch in estimating how crowded the subways are: in my last post I used the NYMTC's estimates of ...

Saturday, April 26, 2014

Infilling the subways

Commenter threestationsquare pointed out that I made an error in the chart I posted about overcrowded subways. He also noted that it's...

Wednesday, April 2, 2014

Light rail in New York City?

Last week I talked about the practical differences between light rail, streetcars, subways and commuter rail. We have light rail right acr...

Sunday, January 12, 2014

Off-peak service frequencies on the Long Island Rail Road

I made this map of off-peak service frequencies on the Long Island Rail Road . Click through to see it full size.

Monday, March 11, 2013

The difference a lane (or toll) makes

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

Saturday, January 12, 2013

Priority bus lanes on the Pulaski Skyway

Last month I told you how much the Pulaski Skyway degrades our urban environment just by carrying 30,000 cars into Manhattan, and observed ...

Tuesday, November 13, 2012

What Not to Rebuild

I'm glad to see that some people have broached the topic of sustainability in the areas devastated by Hurricane Sandy, and in particular...

Wednesday, October 31, 2012

If the MTA doesn't want to take you to work...

I've got so much to say in the aftermath of Hurricane Sandy that I'm posting twice in one night. In my last post I didn't incl...

Can we get an Emergency Express Bus network?

We now know that most of the tunnels under the East River were flooded by Hurricane Sandy, including subway tunnels, and that there is flood...

Saturday, September 1, 2012

What is New York's Forest Hill?

As you may remember, Feargus O'Sullivan recently moved within London , from the "urban" neighborhood Shoreditch (I think) to t...

Wednesday, May 23, 2012

From Sheepshead Bay to City Hall

On Saturday I wrote about the abandoned Manhattan Terminal at the foot of the Williamsburg Bridge, where trolleys used to turn around, allow...

Monday, May 14, 2012

This is a G train to Brooklyn Army Terminal...

Last month, Manhattan Borough President and mayoral hopeful Scott Stringer revived hopes for what he called "the X line," also kn...

Sunday, May 13, 2012

Chinese names for New York neighborhoods

Here is a list of New York neighborhoods, streets and suburbs with significant Chinese populations, with their names in Simplfied Chinese wr...

Saturday, January 21, 2012

Navy Road and the projects

Ben Fried at Streetsblog said it all in just fifteen words: How About an At-Grade Crosswalk Instead of a Ped Bridge With Fencing Over Navy ...

Tuesday, November 29, 2011

From tragedy to farce in Bushwick

Today Streetsblog had a post about a few blocks immediately to the east of the Knickerbocker Avenue el station in Bushwick, where developme...

View web version

Powered by Blogger.