Archive for Buses

July 2008

7/03: Rider Report: Select Bus Service Shaves Trip Time 10

7/02: Does New York BRT Need Cops and Cameras, or Just Concrete? 17

June 2008

6/30: Bus Riders Warm to Select Bus Service, Drivers Love Red Parking Lane 33

6/27: How David Gantt Sent Bus Cameras to Defeat in Albany 25

6/25: Eyes on the Street: Ikea Shuttles Tearing Through Brooklyn 'Hoods 47

6/19: Shining a Light on Albany's Bus Camera Vote 11

6/18: Assembly Transpo Committee Kills Bus Lane Enforcement Bill 68

6/17: City Council Says "Yes" to Car-Free Bus Lanes. Now It's Up to Albany. 14

6/03: Albany to Consider Bus Lane Enforcement Legislation 16

May 2008

5/28: Defying Media Spin, Poll Shows Public Support for Delhi BRT 3

5/13: Bus Rapid Transit Under Fire in Delhi, India 10

5/12: A Bridge and Tunnel Transit Solution 23

April 2008

4/25: COMMUTE's BRT Plan: A Denser Network and Interborough Lines 11

4/22: How Paris is Beating Traffic Without Congestion Pricing 29

4/17: A Transit Miracle on 34th Street 48

4/15: Jessica Lappin: Congestion Pricing Advocate 20

4/15: Après Congestion Pricing, It's Time to Look at the Paris Model 19

4/11: Streetfilms: A Look at Bus Rapid Transit in L.A. 3

4/02: We Win!!!... a Trip to Albany? 9

March 2008

3/25: NYC's First Bus Rapid Transit Line Debuts in the Bronx 15

February 2008

2/26: Everything You Ever Wanted to Know About BRT 8

2/20: Peñalosa to New York Pols: BRT & Pricing Benefit Working Class 11

2/15: "Lock Box" Provides $39M for Livable Streets, Ferries, BRT 13

2/08: State Senator's Car is Towed During Congestion Pricing Meeting 10

2/04: The Human Rights Argument For BRT And Pricing 16

January 2008

1/28: StreetFilm: Bus Rapid Transit (BRT) in Bogotá 64

1/23: Ridership Surges on MTA Bus Co. Routes 6

1/17: Road Pricing and Public Transit: The "Virtuous Cycle" 19

1/15: The Battle for Britain's Roads 9

December 2007

12/04: Good Streets Include Streetcars 48

November 2007

11/26: New Refuge Islands for Bronx Pedestrians & Bus Riders 9

11/19: StreetFilms: Bay Ridge Bus Commuters Talk Congestion Pricing 18

October 2007

10/30: The M23 Bus Earns the 2007 Pokey Award 8

10/29: The Bogotá Transformation: Vision and Political Will 33

10/15: Fact Remains: No Congestion Pricing = No Federal Funds 7

10/15: The MTA is Testing Battery-Powered Buses 6

10/03: Doubts About DOT Congestion Prescription in Jax Heights 1

August 2007

8/24: First-Ever Electronic Bus Status Display Installed in Manhattan 18

8/20: The Urban Transportation Report Card 7

8/14: Feds to NYC: "Get on the Bus" 25

8/02: Melbourne, Australia After a Decade of Focus on Public Spaces 12

July 2007

7/26: French Revolution 18

7/24: Microbuses and Bike Sharing: The New Parisian Street Scene 11

7/18: Critical Transportation Reforms Sink With Pricing 7

7/13: Highlights From This Week's Mobilizing the Region 3

7/13: BRT Moving Ahead but City Pushes Back the Timeline a Bit 7

7/12: Details of Proposed Bus Service Expansion 9

7/10: $300+ Million in Bus Improvements Held Hostage in Albany 1

7/09: It's Getting Better All the Time 1

7/05: Slow Going for New Bus Lanes 11

June 2007

6/20: Q&A With Transportation Commissioner Janette Sadik-Khan 20

6/19: The Perfect Argument for Congestion Pricing 15

6/15: It's the Bus Riders, Stupid. 4

May 2007

5/24: Queens Blogger Runs His Own Commuter Contest 48

5/17: The Car Habit Is Tough to Break 20

5/11: PlaNYC Quietly Introduces "Safe Routes to Transit" 3

5/10: High-Emission Vehicles to Pay £200 ($400!) to Enter London 4

5/10: There Are Certain Facts That We've All Got to Face Up To 4

5/08: Ninth Street Update: Robert's Rules of Order 24

5/07: Choose Your Own Hells Kitchen 4

5/04: Gene Russianoff on the MTA's Day of Reckoning 9

April 2007

4/27: Bus Bulbs Useless Without Enforcement 10

4/17: Queens Residents Oppose Loss of Parking for Bus Rapid Transit 13

4/16: Overheard on the Bus: NYC Bicyclists Losing the PR War 26

4/10: Co-op City Group Wants Bus Rapid Transit to Keep Its Distance 3

March 2007

3/29: Opposition Brewing to DOT's Proposal for 9th Street Bike Lanes 15

3/12: Insta-Bus Rapid Transit for Lower Manhattan 1

3/11: Quick Bus and Ped Improvements Coming to Lower Broadway 10

February 2007

2/09: 40,000+ U.S. Buses Are Equipped With Bike Racks. None in NYC. 13

January 2007

1/10: Making Hell's Kitchen Less Hellish 20

1/03: Day Two: Ten Things for Governor Spitzer to Fix 21

December 2006

12/07: Three Concrete Proposals for New York City Traffic Relief 15

12/06: Bollard Porn 29

November 2006

11/28: Curbside Space Wars 8

11/08: Buses and Atlantic Yards 0

October 2006

10/27: Life on Crutches in NYC 3

10/24: And the 2006 Pokey Award Goes to... 1

10/24: DOT Announces Five Bus Rapid Transit Corridors 33

September 2006

9/26: Beyond Thermoplast, Street Signs and Signal Timing 21

9/08: Street Films: Hell's Kitchen Miracle Ticket 6

August 2006

8/11: Traffic Continues to Disappear in Paris 2

July 2006

7/12: Bus Stop. Hamburg, Germany 2

April 2006

4/19: Slow-Moving Bus Rapid Transit 4