 Graphic: Alliance for Biking and Walking This week, the Alliance for Biking and Walking released its 2012 Benchmarking Report, and the timing is impeccable. As Streetsblog points out, the release coincides with the soon-to-appear national surface transportation bill, and in the tri-state region, it comes just after state legislatures have gotten into full swing. With statistics, case studies and loads of other resources, the Benchmarking Report shows legislators where the nation’s biking and walking infrastructure stands.
After the jump, TSTC presents some of the report’s most interesting figures.
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photo: The Eyes Of New York
This week, a number of New York’s transportation agencies unveiled technological initiatives that promise to help people get around without cars.
On Staten Island, the MTA’s real time bus tracking service went live. The program, which is known as Bus Time, was developed with OpenPlans at the urging of [...]
Governor Cuomo and NYMTC still have the opportunity to make transit part of the Tappan Zee project. Photo: Patja
On Friday, the New York Metropolitan Transportation Council (NYMTC) announced a request for $18.6 million in federal transportation funds to begin preliminary engineering work on the Tappan Zee Bridge project.
The amendment to the [...]
The W train was cut during MTA's service reductions in 2010. Photo: Heath Brandon.
The tax reform bill currently moving through Albany includes several provisions that could hurt transit riders.
First, the bill would whittle down the payroll tax that currently helps fund the MTA – under the terms of the bill, private [...]
The Sheridan Expressway in the South Bronx, which advocates have said should be removed and replaced with parks and mixed-use development.
This Saturday, October 15 from 9:30am to 2:00pm, the NYC Department of City Planning will host a public charrette at Fannie Lou Hamer Freedom High School – 1021 Jennings Street, Bronx, NY [...]
This graphic from the Wall Street Journal shows the city's timeline for filling in the Midtown gap in the East River Greenway.
Mayor Bloomberg, NY state legislative leaders, and elected officials representing Manhattan’s East Side announced at a Wednesday City Hall press conference that the city and state had signed an agreement to [...]
Data from a Hunter College study shows fewer pedestrians being injured by cyclists between 2007 and 2010, the same time frame in which NYC has improved bike infrastructure and cycling has grown.
[Update 9/26: For further reading, see last week's City Room article about how this study has been critiqued by other members [...]
A concept rendering of a potential new East River esplanade and greenway.
The last of three public forums on a proposal to finally fill in a gap in the East River Greenway on NYC’s East Side is this Tuesday. Elected officials organizing the forums — City Councilmember Dan Garodnick, Assemblymember Brian Kavanagh, State [...]
A bicycle-sharing station next to a rail stop in Washington, D.C.
New York City officials announced today that they had selected Alta Bike Share as the vendor for a bicycle-sharing system, with 10,000 bikes, that will launch next summer and initially stretch from 79th Street in Manhattan to Bedford-Stuyvesant and Windsor Terrace in [...]
Capital Bikeshare riders in Washington, D.C.
When New York City launches a bike-sharing system next year, it will revolutionize the way people get around in the city. If the experience of other cities in the Northeast is any indication, residents, workers, and visitors have a lot to look forward to.
A few hours [...]
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