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Showing posts with label congestion pricing. Show all posts
Showing posts with label congestion pricing. Show all posts
Tuesday, June 18, 2024

The symbolism of congestion pricing

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Since Governor Hochul announced her "indefinite pause" on congestion pricing on June 7, I've been one of several people who p...
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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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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Friday, September 6, 2013

Car dependence is overdetermined

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I came across a word that I think helped me to put my finger on something that’s been unclear: "overdetermined." It's a Freud...
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Tuesday, February 5, 2013

Christine Quinn's disappointing record on transportation

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City Council Speaker Christine Quinn is running for mayor of New York. In theory I like the idea of the city's first lesbian mayor, and...
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Sunday, December 9, 2012

Tweaking congestion by time of day

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Last week I observed that we have a degree of control over the speed of cars and the level of congestion on streets. We can design streets ...
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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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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...
Friday, June 22, 2012

Balaji Prabhakar and the invisible carrots

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A few days ago I wrote about two pilot projects carried out in Bangalore and Palo Alto by Stanford computer scientist Balaji Prabhakar. In...
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Sunday, June 17, 2012

Balaji Prabhakar and the mystery rewards

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Last week, the Times ran a gee-whiz article about Stanford computer scientist Balaji Prabhakar and his pilot program to reduce the number ...
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Friday, May 18, 2012

Something for the drivers

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One of the biggest objections I have to "Gridlock Sam" Schwartz's proposal to reinstate tolls the East River bridges is the e...
Tuesday, May 15, 2012

Gridlock Sam's plan

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Last month Crain's ran a glowing profile of "Gridlock Sam" Schwartz, and I was certainly impressed with the stories about him...
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