Recent Streetsblog USA posts about New York

House Transportation Bill Too Extreme for Some Republicans

By Angie Schmitt | Feb 8, 2012 | 5 Comments

The House GOP’s transportation bill is legislation only Big Oil can love. By eviscerating dedicated transit funds, killing programs that support safe streets, and linking transportation funding to oil drilling in the Arctic, the bill has managed to alienate everyone from environmental advocates to the ultra-conservative Club for Growth. So there’s a chance that House […]

Bikes Belong to Help Six Cities Build Protected Bikeways

By Angie Schmitt | Feb 8, 2012 | 9 Comments

Six cities will adopt innovate street designs for safer cycling over the next two years as part of a new program from Bikes Belong. The Green Lane Project will provide financial and technical assistance for cities to develop physically protected cycling infrastructure. The six to-be-determined cities will then serve as models for other American cities […]

Streetsies 2011: The Local Edition

By Tanya Snyder | Dec 29, 2011 | 1 Comment

Yesterday, we started our year-end 2011 round-up. We lamented transit cuts in places where transit is more important than ever, cheered the successful ballot initiatives that will fund transportation lifelines, took a moment to explore the nuances of some difficult issues, and called out Gov. Scott Walker of Wisconsin for some hare-brained ideas about the […]

NJ Senator Lautenberg Introduces Bill to Limit Bridge and Tunnel Tolls

By Tanya Snyder and Ben Fried | Dec 16, 2011 | 5 Comments

Last summer, the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey raised EZPass tolls from $8 to cross a bridge into the city during peak hours to $9.50, with planned increases to $12.50 in a few years (cash tolls are increasing somewhat more). Tolls for five-axle trucks will rise as high as $125. The hikes […]

Chuck Schumer on Niagara Falls Highway: “Tear Down This Road”

By Noah Kazis | Dec 13, 2011 | No Comments

Most members of Congress are excited to cut the ribbon for a new stretch of freeway, but it’s a smaller set indeed that will stand up for the removal of a highway, no matter how neighborhood-blighting. As of yesterday, count New York Senator Chuck Schumer among their number. “Right now, the Robert Moses Parkway stands […]

Transportation Projects Chosen For Federal Fast-Tracking Lean Multi-Modal

By Tanya Snyder | Oct 11, 2011 | 4 Comments

Last month Streetsblog asked whether President Obama would select transportation projects that reduce congestion, improve air quality, and create jobs when he picked several infrastructure investments, among those recommended by agency officials, to fast-track. The selection of these projects, intended to help spur short-term job creation, could avoid the mistakes of the 2009 stimulus program, […]

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