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Showing posts with label manhattan. Show all posts
Showing posts with label manhattan. Show all posts
Friday, August 9, 2024

Summer Streets: What else you got?

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In August of 2011 I wrote a series of posts about Summer Streets. The first one focused on how the program just left me wanting more, and...
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...
Monday, August 6, 2018

Can we make the Central Park "drives" two way again now?

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They say Central Park is now car-free. The other day I passed five construction trucks, three random cars and four golf carts, one of which...
Friday, January 27, 2017

Do we need the Port Authority Bus Terminal?

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In 2015 I talked about the proposal to build a new bus terminal in downtown Flushing, and came up with the following list of six features. ...
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Friday, February 26, 2016

The Via experience

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Here in New York when people talk about "microtransit," they usually mean Uberpool or Lyftline , and those are the services I'...
Thursday, September 17, 2015

Next stop: 34th Street-Hudson River Greenway

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I rode the 7 train to the new 34th Street stop for the first time today. Too late? Well, I figured you all had the opening covered. I wan...
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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, November 25, 2014

The cargo cult of railyard decks

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I recently wrote about a proposal to build a deck over the Sunnyside Yards . This got me thinking about these projects in general. I'...
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Friday, September 12, 2014

Did you bring enough housing for everybody?

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When I was a kid, one of the things the teachers told us was that if you bring snacks or candy, you have to bring enough for everyone. If y...
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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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Thursday, April 17, 2014

Our overloaded subways

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As I wrote a couple of weeks ago, there are times when building new transit is not warranted. In particular, it is a waste of resources to...
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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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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 ...
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, 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 ...
Saturday, March 23, 2013

When is the MTA going to stop sending limiteds all day long?

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Last night the 92nd Street Y hosted a debate for candidates for the Republican nomination for Mayor of New York. Members of the Y submitted...
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Monday, December 24, 2012

The MTA's $27 million consumer surplus

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One of the often repeated fears about dollar vans and other privately operated transit options is that they will "poach" customers...
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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 9, 2012

What you need for a good bus bridge

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It's my hope that New Yorkers will remember three events from the recovery from Hurricane Sandy. The first is the gridlock and chaos th...
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Monday, November 5, 2012

Chasing New York's Phantom Inequality

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In the wake of the destruction left by Hurricane Sandy, a number of narratives have emerged. One is the Triumph of the Bicycles - the bicyc...
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