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Showing posts with label parking. Show all posts
Showing posts with label parking. Show all posts
Friday, November 17, 2017

The problem with offset bus lanes

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In recent posts I’ve talked about how transit needs dedicated lanes , and how on a hundred foot avenue you don’t want to take a lane away fr...
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Wednesday, October 26, 2016

Is it worth the parking?

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Joe Cortright had a nice piece recently where he showed that 83% of the amount of driving in cities can be explained by the cost of parking...
Sunday, March 29, 2015

NYCHA and the fetishized green space

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Today the Daily News published a hyperbolic " EXCLUSIVE: NYCHA selling off green space to developers! " As one person remarked o...
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Thursday, January 15, 2015

Driving to the walkway

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Among the many crazy things about the new Tappan Zee Bridge, one of the craziest is the way that some environmentalists seem to melt into so...
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Monday, January 27, 2014

New transit and our goals

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It's pretty much a no-brainer that anything that optimizes existing transit use will help us toward our goals. Getting people out of ca...
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Wednesday, December 18, 2013

Abusing the sidewalk

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Good sidewalks and crosswalks are at least as important to our goals as transit. Trips are rarely transit door to door, and the rest of the...
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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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Monday, April 8, 2013

Will "Willets West" relieve Flushing Meadows's parking curse?

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One of the least pleasant things about Flushing Meadows is the sheer amount of parking, as I've helpfully highlighted for you on the Goo...
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Monday, March 25, 2013

The case for yield streets in New York City

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Back in December I noted that there are actually three ways to adjust the balance of a road to favor pedestrians over cars, or vice versa. ...
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Thursday, February 14, 2013

What is the best use for the Flushing River valley?

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I've lost count of all the proposals to build things in the Queens Valley. Here's a map from the Wall Street Journal: In additio...
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Thursday, January 17, 2013

The benefits of density come from less space for cars

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There's been a lot of good talk about density lately. Last week I pointed out that a lot of what some people object to about "den...
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Tuesday, January 8, 2013

How much of "density" is just less space for cars?

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There are many benefits from living and working in dense environments, but there are plenty of people who are against density, and come out ...
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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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Thursday, November 29, 2012

Why no parking should be the future of parking

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Yesterday, Eric Jaffe of the Atlantic Cities tweeted to his colleague Emily Badger, "One day we'll find something that pleases the...
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Monday, October 15, 2012

The Port Authority rooftop should be for buses

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As I've written before, there are a lot of buses and trains bringing commuters to Manhattan every morning and taking them home at night....
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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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Saturday, September 22, 2012

The Great Curbside Land Grab of 1947-1952

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In previous posts I've talked about how it was illegal to park your car overnight in New York City in the 1940s, how car ownership got ...
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Tuesday, September 18, 2012

How not to deal with parking moochers

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Let's say that you live by yourself in a two-bedroom apartment. Your friend's brother is coming to town to look for a job, and your...