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Flushing Transpo Project Boosted Safety While Curbing Congestion
It might not be as bold or attention-grabbing as the overhaul of Times Square and Herald Square, but a set of changes made to New York City's third-busiest pedestrian intersection is having its own quiet success. In Downtown Flushing, a 2010 project that expanded sidewalks, daylighted dangerous intersections, and introduced numerous turn restrictions is boosting safety even while traffic flows more smoothly, according to a new evaluation from NYC DOT [PDF].
March 5, 2012
LOS and Travel Projections: The Wrong Tools for Planning Our Streets
Gary Toth is director of transportation initiatives at Project for Public Spaces. This post first appeared on PPS's Placemaking Blog.
February 7, 2012
Komanoff: 2,000 New Cabs Will Add as Much Traffic as 80,000 Private Cars
Transportation analyst and Streetsblog contributor Charles Komanoff is out with a piece in Reuters today that examines the traffic impacts of adding 2,000 new yellow taxis to Manhattan streets, and it's not pretty.
January 20, 2012
TTI: Mass Transit Saved Drivers 45.4 Million Hours Last Year
Last year, the D.C. region ran away with the dubious honor of Most Congested Metro Area. D.C. area drivers wasted 74 hours and 37 gallons of fuel sitting in traffic last year, which would have cost about $100 over the course of the year. But the gasoline cost is just the tip of the iceberg.
September 27, 2011
Guess Who Has a Lot to Lose From an MTA Meltdown: Drivers
Can you spot the flaw in this excerpt from the New York Times' Saturday backgrounder on MTA chief Jay Walder’s pending departure for Hong Kong?
August 1, 2011
Chamber of Commerce: Empty Asphalt = Good Transportation Performance
The Chamber of Commerce released its annual Transportation Performance Index (TPI) last week [PDF], and you can tell it's due for a total overhaul, because according to the Index, recession-battered 2009 was a banner year for transportation performance.
July 25, 2011
“Midtown in Motion” to Come With Rad Driver-Distracting Apps
As it is, the NYC DOT “Midtown in Motion" initiative is a bit of a head-scratcher. To learn that the city is devoting well over a million dollars in addition to staff resources to speed up car traffic in Midtown, which the mayor has declared the "lifeblood" of the CBD -- is it 2006 again?
July 21, 2011
High-Tech Midtown Traffic System Will Ignore Pedestrians and Buses
The Department of Transportation is rolling out a response to Midtown traffic congestion that is as high-tech as it is intellectually outdated. Microwave sensors, video cameras, and E-ZPass readers will gather traffic information in real-time and beam the information to the DOT's Queens command center, where engineers will instantly adjust the traffic lights as needed in an attempt to fine-tune the workings of the traffic grid.
July 20, 2011
Has America Passed Peak Car Use, or Is It Just a Cyclical Decline?
Fast Company is the latest media outlet to trumpet the decline of driving, with a look at the phenomenon dubbed "peak car use."
July 8, 2011
DOT’s Annual Scorecard Confirms: Most New Yorkers Don’t Shop and Drive
NYCDOT's annual scorecard, the Sustainable Streets Index, adds more information about how New Yorkers get around every year. In addition to regular statistical snapshots of the city's transportation system, like transit ridership or traffic speeds culled from GPS devices in taxis, this year's version adds neighborhood travel profiles. Compiled from interviews in eight neighborhoods, these profiles to show just how little New Yorkers rely on cars to get around.
May 2, 2011