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Moving Beyond the Automobile: The Right Price for Parking
You might be shocked at how much traffic consists of drivers who have already arrived at their destination but find themselves cruising the streets, searching for an open parking spot. In some city neighborhoods, cruising makes up as much as 40 percent of all traffic. All this unnecessary traffic slows down buses, endangers cyclists and pedestrians, delays other motorists, and produces harmful emissions. The key to eliminating it is to get the price of parking right.
April 19, 2011
Henry St. Placard Abuser Fends Off NYPD By Mixing Church and State
At this point, it's hardly news that the length of the Henry Street bike lane was filled with parked cars yesterday (see here and here). Being a Sunday, it was par for the course, though still infuriating, that churchgoers were taking advantage of an informal agreement with the police to snatch that lane away from cyclists and give it to parkers during services. Can it get more outrageous than the status quo? Yes it can.
April 18, 2011
To Curb Congestion, Parking Reform Must Be in PlaNYC Update
Three years ago, the Regional Plan Association held a panel on congestion pricing at its annual conference. The title of the discussion was "Making Cars Pay Their Way." At the 2011 conference last Friday, a similar panel on curbing traffic took the more generic title, "Strategies to Manage Congestion."
April 18, 2011
Brooklyn Pop-Up Café Wins Community Board 2 Endorsement
Brooklyn's only proposed pop-up café won the approval of Community Board 2 last night in an 18-10-1 vote, allowing the city to replace on-street parking with public seating. This pop-up is sponsored by the Ecopolis Café on Smith Street, which will pay the cost of building the temporary public space.
April 14, 2011
IBO: Ending the Free Ride Over NYC Bridges Could Raise $1B+ Each Year
The absence of any price on New York City's free bridges is costing the city dearly, according to the city's Independent Budget Office. In the IBO's annual report listing options for raising revenue or cutting costs [PDF], tolling the East River and Harlem River bridges ranks as the second largest revenue raiser, only after reinstituting the commuter tax with newly progressive brackets. Also included: expanding DOT's ParkSmart program and piloting a residential parking permit program.
April 12, 2011
Washington Heights Towers Would Add 500+ Parking Spots on Top of 1 Train
Since January, Upper Manhattan has been abuzz with news of a proposed development that could bring four new residential towers to Washington Heights. And according to developers Quadriad Realty Partners, there'll be ample parking to go along with them.
April 8, 2011
New York’s Car Ownership Rate Is on The Rise
Car-free households broken down by Assembly district. Red areas indicate where car ownership has gone up, blue areas where it has decreased. Click on each district for more information.
April 6, 2011
Ratner Arena Will Include 400 Satanic Bike Parking Spots
Well, this doesn't make up for the eminent domain abuse, inexcusable subsidies-slash-dealmaking, crappy urban design and extensive surface parking acreage, but the Wall Street Journal's Jason Gay reminds us that the Brooklyn basketball arena financed by Bruce Ratner, Mikhail Prokhorov, and the taxpayers of New York State will include 400 bike parking spaces.
April 5, 2011
SoHo’s Rejected Pop-Up Cafés Won’t Appear Elsewhere
Last Thursday evening, Manhattan Community Board 2 voted down five of six approved pop-up cafés in their neighborhood, choosing parking spaces over public seating.
March 29, 2011
Road Diets But No Bike Lanes for Two Queens Traffic Calming Projects
DOT presented plans for two Long Island City street redesigns to Queens Community Board 2's transportation committee last night. One, a standard road diet, would calm traffic on 44th Drive by replacing one moving lane in each direction with a painted median and left turn bays [PDF]. The other, a novel design for a single block of 48th Avenue, manages to make four of six lanes into on-street parking [PDF].
March 25, 2011