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Showing posts with label cars. Show all posts
Showing posts with label cars. Show all posts
Monday, December 5, 2016

We still need more car-free weekenders

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Some years ago, I wound up arguing about congestion pricing in my local cafe with a woman I’d never met before. I said that as someone who ...
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Tuesday, September 6, 2016

New traffic patterns, new driving habits

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I'm not a traffic engineer, but I know that old habits die hard. I also know that it's possible to create new habits, and once thos...
Saturday, June 18, 2016

How carfree is your City Council district?

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One of the most eye-opening things I saw during the 2007-2008 congestion pricing debate was a series of fact sheets produced by the Tri-Sta...
Monday, January 18, 2016

We need to stop converting streets to one-way

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New York is famous for its livable streets revolution, where Janette Sadik-Khan, with the backing of Mayor Bloomberg, turned the city Depart...
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Sunday, December 27, 2015

Knowing you killed someone is not punishment

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Advocates for safer streets have been pushing back against the use of "accident" to absolve drivers of responsibility for not kil...
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Saturday, December 19, 2015

Our stratified transportation system

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A lot of people are nervous about the possibility that privately-run electronic taxi-hailing systems like Uber and Lyft could take over func...
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Sunday, November 29, 2015

Could Lyft and Uber reduce congestion?

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Charles Komanoff has created an open-source multimodal transportation model for New York City, available for free download as an Excel sprea...
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Saturday, October 10, 2015

Which should we fight harder, job sprawl or housing sprawl?

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Eric Jaffe had a good review of a University of Denver study about job sprawl. The study shows, basically, that if you make transit more c...
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Sunday, July 19, 2015

Transit vs. e-hailing and transit vs. cars

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Recently I wrote about some discussion from Timothy B. Lee and Chris Plano about the possibility that "ride-hailing could actually be ...
Monday, July 13, 2015

Do New York's "manufacturing zones" promote driving?

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I read on YIMBY that some people who live or work in the Jerome Avenue corridor in the Bronx are concerned that rezoning the area to allow ...
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Friday, July 3, 2015

Autonomous cars in the advanced city

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Robin Chase, founder of Zipcar, said this to Yonah Freemark last month: Would you prefer what we have today, [where] only poor people use...
Thursday, June 18, 2015

Who's getting out of the way of the buses?

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The Transit Workers' Union Local 100 has been campaigning against New York's recently enacted Right of Way law, which gives the pol...
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Friday, June 12, 2015

The new short game in transit advocacy

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In my last post I focused on the difference between playing a long game in transit advocacy, which requires thinking strategically about wha...
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Sunday, January 11, 2015

Crossing the Yards

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One of the arguments given by proponents of decking the Sunnyside Yards is that Sunnyside is cut off from Astoria and Long Island City by t...
Wednesday, August 27, 2014

Ferguson, Missouri is not a Strong Town

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A lot of people have had a lot of insights about the recent events in Ferguson, Missouri. I want to highlight a few that I think are partic...
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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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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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Friday, April 11, 2014

Carmageddon vs. Bridgegate

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The New Jersey Department of Transportation will shut down two lanes of the Pulaski Skyway on Saturday, and recently Sarah Gonzalez was on W...
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Sunday, January 19, 2014

How safe is your hundred foot avenue?

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The stretch of Northern Boulevard where Noshat Nahian was killed last month has always felt dangerous to me, and not just because of its ...