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Showing posts with label electoral. Show all posts
Showing posts with label electoral. Show all posts
Sunday, June 28, 2026

Transit access drives transit voting

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I've been trying to show this for years with maps of car-free households, but there was a great example recently that used voting patte...
Sunday, July 4, 2021

Cities don't think

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I listen to a few podcasts that cover issues of land use and transportation, and they tend to be heavy with urban planners. I also follow ...
Saturday, June 8, 2019

Transit should be controlled by transit riders

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I was listening to City Council Speaker Corey Johnson on Ben Kabak's new podcast , promoting his proposal to transfer control of the Ne...
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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...
Thursday, October 24, 2013

The Fifth Borough?

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On my post about Staten Island, chrismealy commented that we could trade it for Bergen Neck, the peninsula in New Jersey just north of it. ...
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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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Tuesday, September 17, 2013

Staten Island and our goals

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This summer I went to Staten Island for the first time in several years. There are some things I like about it, but I don't go there ve...
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Tuesday, May 7, 2013

"Why would they take the glass encasing off of a bus stop?"

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I've written before about the Republican mayoral candidates' responses to a debate question about bus frequency, and their notions ...
Thursday, February 7, 2013

What I want from a mayor or city council member

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After I laid out the ways that Christine Quinn has disappointed me as a transportation and livable streets advocate, I got a couple of emai...
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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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Saturday, January 5, 2013

Will transit riders be represented in the 113th Congress?

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Bill Shuster, chair of the House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee, has named the majority-party members of the committee, who wi...
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Sunday, September 2, 2012

Your Guide to New York State's Judicial Nomination Process

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As I mentioned recently, there were two bizarre judicial rulings in the New York State Supreme Court setting back transportation reform. On...
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Wednesday, May 9, 2012

Expanding the constituency for transit and livable streets

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I've talked before about why we need walkable, transit-oriented suburbs . One of the big reasons is the cycle: the easier it is to take...
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Sunday, April 29, 2012

Why we need walkable, transit-oriented suburbs

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You regularly hear transit and livable streets advocates talking in terms of an opposition between "urbanists" who want transit an...
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Saturday, April 7, 2012

The state budget's bogus parity

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Every once in a while the debate over the New York State budget turns briefly to transportation, and we see where our leaders have their pri...
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Thursday, April 5, 2012

Why I care about transportation in the suburbs

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If you read my posts you'll notice that I live in the city, but I talk a lot about transit and roads in suburban counties like Rockland ...
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Friday, March 9, 2012

Mike Gianaris and Marge Markey and Joe Crowley will again stab straphangers in the back

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Transportation Alternatives sent around a Media Round-Up to their members - and I am one - saying that the Daily News editorial on the lat...