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Showing posts with label enforcement. Show all posts
Showing posts with label enforcement. Show all posts
Monday, May 27, 2024

Making all the polluters pay

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Some climate advocates have adopted a strategy that they call "Making Polluters Pay." They argue that most carbon pollution is ...
Friday, June 22, 2018

What's the real story behind those photos of abandoned dockless bikeshare bikes?

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At this point you've probably seen at least one, maybe several: pictures of "abandoned" or "discarded" dockless bik...
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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...
Tuesday, June 28, 2016

Windows on the Van Wyck

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A few weeks ago I went for a walk in Briarwood and Kew Gardens Hills. I got off the train at Jamaica-Van Wyck, the first time I’d ever used...
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Friday, May 20, 2016

The safety and comfort of ridesharing

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"It’s so 2015," Vogue writer Karley Sciortino's friend said to her in Los Angeles last year. "This girl I know just fucke...
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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Tuesday, December 23, 2014

The NYPD brutalizes all pedestrians

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Remember when the Department of Transportation seemed so conservative and car-oriented, when it looked like Mike Primeggia was going to be ...
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Wednesday, August 13, 2014

The transportation hypocrisy of civil libertarians

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It was in the news yesterday that the Drug Enforcement Administration paid an Amtrak employee over $800,000 over twenty years for confident...
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Sunday, February 9, 2014

Ten things Trottenberg and Bratton can do for transit

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There have been a few posts about what the new administration of Mayor de Blasio can do for transit. Some have been focused on "bus r...
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Wednesday, December 25, 2013

The safety culture of Northern Boulevard

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On December 20, eight-year-old Noshat Nahian was walking with his older sister to P.S. 152 in Woodside, just before the 8:00 AM bell. As th...
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Wednesday, May 15, 2013

Stuck on the subway

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Today the Times published a good article by Kimberly Matus telling the story of how she was groped on a crowded subway train. In that part...
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Tuesday, December 4, 2012

Tweaking congestion

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A bunch of people liked my post last week about the 85th Percentile Rule, in which I reformulated the rule to incorporate pedestrian and cy...
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Monday, November 26, 2012

Why the 85th Percentile Rule still matters

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Earlier this month Pedro Madruga at Copenhagenize found a really bad zombie rule that continues to wreak havoc all over the world: the 85th...
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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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Thursday, October 11, 2012

The limits of naive Monderman analysis

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I've talked before about the revolutionary approach to traffic engineering that was pioneered in the Netherlands by the late Hans Monde...
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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 21, 2012

The limits of kvetchocracy

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Earlier this year it was big news when the City released a map , and summary reports of complaint calls to its 311 telephone system. Deput...
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