Comments on: Today’s Headlines http://www.streetsblog.org/2009/01/26/todays-headlines-571/ Covering the New York City Streets Renaissance Fri, 10 Feb 2012 16:07:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Larry Littlefield http://www.streetsblog.org/2009/01/26/todays-headlines-571/comment-page-1/#comment-62141 Larry Littlefield Mon, 26 Jan 2009 20:44:00 +0000 http://www.streetsblog.org/?p=5326#comment-62141 Looks like another big test is coming for DOT. According to the current forecast, it's going to snow Tuesday night, followed by a shift to freezing rain. And then it's going to freeze. Just like in December. If they don't get out there and plow the slush on the bridge bicycle/pedestrian paths before it freezes, the result is going to rock hard dangerous ice that they will be unable to clear for days. Perhaps this can be looked into in real time. It looks now I'll take the subway Wedneday. I hope to be able to bike to work Thursday/Friday. It's up to DOT. Looks like another big test is coming for DOT.

According to the current forecast, it’s going to snow Tuesday night, followed by a shift to freezing rain. And then it’s going to freeze. Just like in December.

If they don’t get out there and plow the slush on the bridge bicycle/pedestrian paths before it freezes, the result is going to rock hard dangerous ice that they will be unable to clear for days.

Perhaps this can be looked into in real time. It looks now I’ll take the subway Wedneday. I hope to be able to bike to work Thursday/Friday. It’s up to DOT.

]]> By: Rhywun http://www.streetsblog.org/2009/01/26/todays-headlines-571/comment-page-1/#comment-62130 Rhywun Mon, 26 Jan 2009 17:13:45 +0000 http://www.streetsblog.org/?p=5326#comment-62130 RE: Cabbies Debate Merits of Taxi-Sharing This wouldn't be an issue if we had a one-seat ride to the airport like, oh, almost every other city with rail. If Cleveland can do it, so can we! RE: Cabbies Debate Merits of Taxi-Sharing

This wouldn’t be an issue if we had a one-seat ride to the airport like, oh, almost every other city with rail. If Cleveland can do it, so can we!

]]> By: Rhywun http://www.streetsblog.org/2009/01/26/todays-headlines-571/comment-page-1/#comment-62128 Rhywun Mon, 26 Jan 2009 16:52:01 +0000 http://www.streetsblog.org/?p=5326#comment-62128 RE: Local Pols Still Have Plenty of Reserved On-Street Spaces It's no wonder that these folks lording it over us are so out-of-touch. RE: Local Pols Still Have Plenty of Reserved On-Street Spaces

It’s no wonder that these folks lording it over us are so out-of-touch.

]]> By: Boris http://www.streetsblog.org/2009/01/26/todays-headlines-571/comment-page-1/#comment-62126 Boris Mon, 26 Jan 2009 16:13:49 +0000 http://www.streetsblog.org/?p=5326#comment-62126 Last week I visited San Jose and Dallas for the first time. They are far more car-oriented than any city I've seen in the Northeast, and they have excellent, enormous highway systems. (And probably in part thanks to my money, too- per capita they clearly get more highway money than New York). In other words, they don't need any transportation stimulus, because they are doing fine. So I don't think it's the size of the stimulus that matters, but where it goes. Using old formulas is just as bad as using old car-centric thinking. To bring the quality of transportation in New York up to Dallas's level, proportionally to the number of users, will probably require the entire amount of transportation stimulus offered to the entire nation. Last week I visited San Jose and Dallas for the first time. They are far more car-oriented than any city I’ve seen in the Northeast, and they have excellent, enormous highway systems. (And probably in part thanks to my money, too- per capita they clearly get more highway money than New York).

In other words, they don’t need any transportation stimulus, because they are doing fine. So I don’t think it’s the size of the stimulus that matters, but where it goes. Using old formulas is just as bad as using old car-centric thinking. To bring the quality of transportation in New York up to Dallas’s level, proportionally to the number of users, will probably require the entire amount of transportation stimulus offered to the entire nation.

]]> By: Jeffrey Hymen http://www.streetsblog.org/2009/01/26/todays-headlines-571/comment-page-1/#comment-62125 Jeffrey Hymen Mon, 26 Jan 2009 16:02:42 +0000 http://www.streetsblog.org/?p=5326#comment-62125 Here's the link to the Gotham Gazette article: http://www.gothamgazette.com/article/fea/20090126/202/2809 Here’s the link to the Gotham Gazette article:
http://www.gothamgazette.com/article/fea/20090126/202/2809

]]> By: Josh http://www.streetsblog.org/2009/01/26/todays-headlines-571/comment-page-1/#comment-62124 Josh Mon, 26 Jan 2009 16:00:08 +0000 http://www.streetsblog.org/?p=5326#comment-62124 Cashless tolls should've been an area of focus YEARS ago. Cashless tolls should’ve been an area of focus YEARS ago.

]]> By: anon http://www.streetsblog.org/2009/01/26/todays-headlines-571/comment-page-1/#comment-62122 anon Mon, 26 Jan 2009 15:30:17 +0000 http://www.streetsblog.org/?p=5326#comment-62122 Pedestrian safety segment coming on Brian Lehrer Show on WNYC.org Pedestrian safety segment coming on Brian Lehrer Show on WNYC.org

]]> By: Larry Littlefield http://www.streetsblog.org/2009/01/26/todays-headlines-571/comment-page-1/#comment-62121 Larry Littlefield Mon, 26 Jan 2009 15:16:06 +0000 http://www.streetsblog.org/?p=5326#comment-62121 Moving down the food chain, car parts makers want a bailout. http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/59952e6e-eb1d-11dd-bb6e-0000779fd2ac.html And California towns are bailing out car dealers. http://online.wsj.com/article/SB123292845938013899.html?mod=googlenews_wsj Nothing like having the government allocate capital to ossify past patterns. Meanwhile, Microsoft layoffs are reducing the demand for bicycles in Seattle. http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601109&sid=a5MJCOXYUYfA&refer=home Moving down the food chain, car parts makers want a bailout.

http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/59952e6e-eb1d-11dd-bb6e-0000779fd2ac.html

And California towns are bailing out car dealers.

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB123292845938013899.html?mod=googlenews_wsj

Nothing like having the government allocate capital to ossify past patterns. Meanwhile, Microsoft layoffs are reducing the demand for bicycles in Seattle.

http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601109&sid=a5MJCOXYUYfA&refer=home

]]> By: Cap'n Transit http://www.streetsblog.org/2009/01/26/todays-headlines-571/comment-page-1/#comment-62120 Cap'n Transit Mon, 26 Jan 2009 14:40:37 +0000 http://www.streetsblog.org/?p=5326#comment-62120 Senator Gillibrand said yesterday that she, Paterson, Schumer and Clinton all "really want high-speed rail," <a href="http://www.observer.com/2009/senator-gillibrands-first-sunday-press-conference" rel="nofollow">according to the <i>Observer</i></a>. Senator Gillibrand said yesterday that she, Paterson, Schumer and Clinton all “really want high-speed rail,” according to the Observer.

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