DOT: One-Way Park Slope Proposal is Dead
No Land Grab is reporting that the DOT has decided to kill the one way proposal for 6th and 7th Avenues in Park Slope. In a letter to Community Board 6 (PDF), the DOT writes:
May 4, 2007
Residential Parking Permits Spotted in PlaNYC Documents
Today's Crain's Insider reports:
May 3, 2007
New York Magazine Casts a Cynical Eye on “Bloomtopia”
New York Magazine's Chris Smith, who calls congestion pricing a trojan horse, suspects fewer cars and more trees may be a "green screen" for mayor Bloomberg's real estate development agenda:
May 1, 2007
Who Wants to Drive Into a City That’s Under Water?
Elizabeth Kolbert, author of the outstanding Field Notes From a Catastrophe, covers climate change for the New Yorker. In this week's issue, she takes up congestion pricing and Mayor Michael Bloomberg's 2030 plan:
April 30, 2007
Meet the Cloggers
The Daily News reports that most drivers to be affected by Bloomberg's congestion pricing are from the Upper East Side and Queens:
April 30, 2007
Ken Livingstone on Congestion Pricing in New York
In his most recent article for the Guardian, London mayor Ken Livingstone applauds Mayor Bloomberg's plan to introduce congestion pricing in New York City:
April 26, 2007
Black Clouds Over China
The balloon says: Drive one day less and look how much carbon dioxide you'll keep out of the air we breathe.
April 26, 2007
PlaNYC: Foster the Market For Renewable Energy
One interesting case study in the mayor's plan is the real-time pricing of electricity. According to research done at Carnegie Mellon University, Americans would save nearly $23 billion a year if they shifted just 7% of their usage during peak hours to less expensive times - the equivalent of the whole nation getting a free month of power every year.
April 25, 2007
Zero Carbon is the Goal for Woodstock
Mayor Bloomberg is not the only one going green. Woodstock, New York wants to be America's first carbon neutral city by 2017. The Telegraph reports:
April 24, 2007