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
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
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 tax reform bill currently moving through Albany includes several provisions that could hurt transit riders. First, the bill would whittle down the payroll tax
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
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
[Update 9/26: For further reading, see last week’s City Room article about how this study has been critiqued by other members of the Hunter College’s
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
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
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
