Recent Streetsblog USA posts about Buses

High-Emission Vehicles to Pay £200 ($400!) to Enter London

By Sarah Goodyear | May 10, 2007 | 4 Comments

London mayor Ken Livingstone, whose congestion-pricing plan has served as a model for Mayor Bloomberg’s, is expected to unveil today an even more radical measure aimed at reducing pollution in his city. According to the Guardian, Livingstone’s proposal would target high-emission commercial vehicles: Ken Livingstone is expected to confirm that older, "dirtier" lorries and buses […]

There Are Certain Facts That We’ve All Got to Face Up To

By Aaron Naparstek | May 10, 2007 | 4 Comments

Given that it was only a few months ago that Mayor Michael Bloomberg could be heard saying, "We like traffic, it means economic activity, it means people coming here," his pitch for a whole new set of progressive transportation policies at last week’s meeting of the Regional Plan Association was all the more remarkable: There […]

Bus Bulbs Useless Without Enforcement

By Sarah Goodyear | Apr 27, 2007 | 10 Comments

A story about the new bus bulbs on Lower Broadway in the New York Times highlights the role that enforcement will have to play if DOT’s plan to make the boulevard more bus-friendly is to work. (Bus Rapid Transit, of course, will face similar issues when it rolls out later this year.) The story points […]

What $13 Billion Looks Like

By Brad Aaron | Apr 24, 2007 | 7 Comments

With the above chart and these comments in mind, here’s some food for thought from the PlaNYC Transportation chapter: Only 4.6% of working New Yorkers commute to Manhattan by car. The vast majority of trips made in New York are not to Manhattan; even among commuters, nearly twice as many outer borough residents work […]

Queens Residents Oppose Loss of Parking for Bus Rapid Transit

By Jason Varone | Apr 17, 2007 | 13 Comments

Trend Watch: New York City Community Boards and civic groups opposing progressive transportation projects on the grounds that they interfere with car owners’ on-street parking and double-parking privileges. Last week, while DOT was catching flack in Brooklyn for its plan to stripe bike lanes on Brooklyn’s 9th Street, Community Board 13 in Queens was putting […]

Breaking News: Frieden Tapped as DOT Commish

By Glenn McAnanama | Apr 1, 2007 | 14 Comments

Please note: This was an April Fool’s Day post… Dr. Thomas Frieden accepting his new job as DOT commissioner this morning in Central Park. In a major restructuring of the Bloomberg Administration, outgoing Transportation Commissioner Iris Weinshall will be replaced by Public Health Commissioner Thomas Frieden. Bloomberg’s surprise announcement came at a rare Sunday morning […]

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