Some of the best things about summer in the city (besides the extreme heat of course) are bikes and outdoor music. It seems you can’t turn a corner without running into either. And this summer, the City Parks Foundation and Transportation Alternatives are teaming up to provide a complimentary experience combining the best of both [...]
Streetsblog recently ran a nice piece on walkable development in Portland. We may face very different challenges here in NYC, but it looks like we’ve got some lessons to learn from smaller sister city in the northwest. Noah Kazis writes: In many parts of America, efforts to build transit-oriented, walkable communities are foiled because financing [...]
There was an interesting discussion on the Brian Lehrer show earlier about pedestrian plazas, hostile honking and other transit transitions in a city that is rethinking the role of streets and how they are shared. If you ride a bike in the Big Apple, you might notice a few things: -There are more people riding. [...]
From WNYC this morning: Economist Joe Cortright ran the numbers: Because New Yorkers drive less, about 16 miles a day less than their counterparts in other urban areas, they spend $19 billion less a year than the “average” city dweller in the U.S. Sitting right on that average are Denver, Minneapolis, and Hartford, Conn. It’s [...]
I saw this great graphic on Information is Beautiful over the weekend, that shows the difference in CO2 emissions in one week, from the volcano or the European aviation industry. Thought provoking and pretty. There are discussions in the comments section about how accurate this is. But what was is even more interesting than complete [...]
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