Bike directions from the Empire State Building to City Hall on Google Maps.After much anticipation, bicycle directions are finally live on Google Maps.
At the National Bike Summit in Washington, DC today, Google announced that its mapping tools can now provide [...]
It says something about the country that we live in that the simple act of walking to work can merit a blog post. But so it is. Today, at her fine blog The Naked City, Mary Newsom wrote about her experience walking the 4.2 miles from her home to her office. She lives in Charlotte, [...]
(Photo: Model D Media)The nation’s transit systems hosted 10.2 billion trips last year, the American Public Transportation Association (APTA) reported yesterday. While that figure represents a 3.8 percent decline from 2008, APTA’s data showed light rail ridership rising in nine cities and the long-term increase in transit use continuing to outpace [...]
Can the Unions Upend Albany? (Daily Politics)
News Names 24 Shameless Lawmakers Who Blasted MTA on Student MetroCards, Including …
… Jeff Klein, Now Backing Bid to Exempt Private Schools From Transit Tax (Times Union)
Shuffling the [...]
These bar stools are sold at DWR for $300 each, but here you are getting a pair for $350. Read Full Post
As part of December’s deficit reduction package, Albany lawmakers took dedicated transit tax revenue from MTA operations to fund other parts of the state budget.When the state of New York announced in December that it would slice $143 million from the MTA operating budget, it may have seemed like a belt-tightening [...]
Even as the Obama administration ramps up its work on a sustainability initiative that treats transportation, housing, and energy efficiency as interconnected aspects of development policy, the effort remains without an official congressional authorization — a situation that Senate Banking Committee Chairman Chris Dodd (D-CT) vowed to fix yesterday.
DOT Commissioner Janette Sadik-Khan appeared on WNYC’s Brian Lehrer Show last Wednesday to talk about the agency’s plans to, as Lehrer put it, "spread the Times Square model." When Lehrer invited listeners to call in with their ideas for other streets that should be made car-free zones, "Steve from Manhattan" asked [...]
At Streetsblog Network member blog Planning Pool, this week is being billed as "Fail Week" — a full five days on "information about bad planning, lack of planning, and planning generally gone awry." We can’t wait to see what they’ll be doing. There’s certainly no shortage of potential topics.
Their first fail-related post [...]
News Calls Out Lawmakers for MTA Hearing Hypocrisy
Students Score MetroCard Meeting With Walder; Bloomberg and Paterson Still MIA (News)
José Peralta vs. Hiram Monserrate: Pick Your Poison, Queens Voters (News)
Subway Intercoms Deemed Less Helpful Than [...]
