Auto-Free New York: Strategies for Reducing Car Use in Manhattan

By Aaron Donovan
Nov 14, 2006

A meeting of Auto-Free New York entitled "Strategies for Reducing Car Use in Manhattan" and featuring Megan Shane, Deputy Policy Director for Manhattan Borough President Scott Stringer.

Presented by the Institute for Rational Urban Mobility.

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Auto-Free New York Monthly Meeting

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Tuesday, June 27, 2006, 6 to 8pm:"Residential Parking Strategies for Reducing Car Use in NYC"Special Guest: Jeffrey Otto, Citizens Housing & Planning Council Auto-Free NY has been holding FREE monthly meetings, featuring a wide variety of guest speakers, since its founding in February, 1989. Usually held in lower Manhattan, they are free, open to the […]

Teaching City Gov’t to Count More Than Just Cars and Trucks

By Aaron Naparstek | Jan 23, 2007

Transportation Alternatives issued a new study by transportation consultant Bruce Schaller today called Traffic Information in NYC (PDF file). The report, according to T.A., "uncovers large gaps in what is known about traffic and transportation in New York City." "The City," says Schaller, "is not collecting the basic information necessary to redress current gridlock, much […]

New York City’s Opinion-Makers Turn Attention to Traffic

By Aaron Naparstek | Sep 13, 2006

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Congestion Pricing vs. Ravitch Plan: Which is Better for the Boroughs?

By Charles Komanoff | Dec 19, 2008

Under the Ravitch Plan, driving into Manhattan over the Third Avenue Bridge will be a relative bargain for Richard Brodsky’s Westchester constituents. It’s easy to dismiss City Councilmembers Lew Fidler and Peter Vallone, Jr. as transportation troglodytes. They’ve led the pushback against bridge tolls — most recently at the City Council hearing this week on […]

Removing cars and trucks from 42nd Street and replacing buses with a modern, low-flow, light-rail line would allow the full width of this crowded street to be used for a richly landscaped greenway and sustainable transport.
Illustration: Roxanne Warren

Op-Ed: For a Safe, Healthy City, We Need an Auto-Free Zone in Manhattan

By George Haikalis and Roxanne Warren | Apr 1, 2020

COVID-19 underscores that closing streets to traffic and enhancing amenities in the crowded core will be vital to the survival of urban America.

In a more perfect world, this is what Bleecker Street, looking south from West 10th Street, would look like. Rendering: Massengale & Co LLC, Gabriele Stroik Johnson

Op-Ed: ‘Open Streets’ Must Lead to Permanent Changes in Our City

By John Massengale | May 4, 2020

It's a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity. Instead of going back to the old New York, choked with pollution and cars that don't move, we can decide what kind of city we want. Change the streets and change the city.