A rendering of the proposed "34th Street Transitway"
The New York City Department of Transportation’s newest project brings the successful concept of Bus Rapid Transit to an important cross town bus route and showcases, once again, what a progressive DOT is capable of doing to improve quality of life and transportation options for its residents and [...]
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Transmilenio: Another Great Idea Hits NYC Streets
“Good” Mass Transit: A Visual Study
GOOD Magazine has published an interactive graphic comparing our country’s largest mass transit systems (here). The abbreviated study looks at Chicago, San Francisco, New York City, Boston and Washington, DC. It’s an interesting visual study of what ‘works’ and reminds us that if you build it, maintain it and keep it convenience, the masses will [...]
NYC Group Organizing Miami Solidarity Bicycle Ride this Sunday
Christophe Le Canne’s memorial continues to garner attention on an ever increasing scale and the NYC-based environmental organization, Time’s Up, is organizing a “Tribute Ride for Miami” this Sunday in solidarity with local advocacy efforts.
If you are in New York City this weekend, we hope that you will let us know how it goes. There [...]
What New York Can Teach Miami: Vision 42
Photo Courtesy of New York Times
Leave it to citizen advocates to be at the forefront of progressive city planning. A citizen advocacy group in New York City called Vision 42 is proposing to close 42 street to cars and construct an east/west light rail line, connecting one side of Manhattan with the other.
Vision 42 would [...]
Climate Change and New York
Miami-Dade County: where is your climate change adaptation plan?? Seems that New York City is aggressively pursuing a plan to protect its infrastructure from the threat of rising seas.
World-wide, cities in 40 countries depend on dikes or seawalls. The seaside of the Netherlands is protected by storm surge barriers big enough to be seen from [...]
Addressing Waterfront Open Space
I spent the better part of this long weekend wandering through the many parks of New York City. The weekend weather was absolutely perfect to spend the whole day in a park and as you’ll see from the pictures below – I wasn’t the only one who thought so. Now, I know I’ve said this [...]
Bus Stop Blues
Below is an excerpt from an email I received this morning from my friend, an occasional bus commuter from Miami Beach to Downtown Miami.
Dude,
I took the bus this morning. Let me bore you with the details. Because my parking permit at Miami-Dade Community College expired (the court provides no parking for clerks), [...]
Enrique Penalosa Shares His Wisdom
Former Mayor of Bogota, Colombia, Enrique Penalosa, is internationally renowned for his progressive transit and bike-oriented urban planning policies that have helped transform the Colombia capital from a congested car-centric nightmare to a much more livable city in less than decade. Earlier this week, Penalosa came to New York to speak in support of Mayor [...]
