by Mary Scott Nabers New York City declared a state of emergency recently because of damage from the extraordinary flash floods, which destroyed streets, devastated property and completely upended mobility. Delivering over seven inches of rain in one day, the weather event was one of the most impactful disasters ever experienced by the city. Data released […]
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Wednesday, October 11th, 2023The Rise and Rise of New York’s Billionaire’s Row | The B1M
Thursday, December 20th, 2018Emerging from the city’s own zoning restrictions, near unrivalled appeal, insatiable developers and engineering ingenuity – this is the story behind Manhattan’s Billionaire’s Row.
View this complete post...A Year From L Train Shutdown, TransAlt Begins Series of Bike Trains
Monday, April 16th, 2018The L train shutdown — which will compel tens of thousands of New Yorkers to find an alternate route between Brooklyn and Manhattan — is a year away. But it’s not too soon to prepare. This morning Transportation Alternatives organized the first L Train Bike Train to get Brooklynites in the swing of riding across the Williamsburg Bridge into Manhattan.
View this complete post...The L Train Shutdown: A preliminary assessment of proposed NYC DOT and MTA mitigation measures
Tuesday, February 27th, 2018TRANSPORTATION ALTERNATIVES BRT PLANNING INTERNATIONAL Executive Summary The L Train, between Eighth Avenue in Manhattan and Bedford Avenue in Brooklyn, will be closed for approximately 15 months, beginning in April of 2019. This shutdown is necessary to finalize repairs to damages caused by flooding from Superstorm Sandy. The potential cataclysm that this represents cannot be […]
View this complete post...Crossing the Hudson: How to Increase Transit Capacity and Improve Commutes
Monday, August 21st, 2017Each day over 1.6 million people commute into Manhattan, the 21st century’s leading global city. For the last 25 years, more and more of those people have been coming from west of the Hudson River. Over that time, the number of jobs in Manhattan has only increased by about 75,000, and the number of daily commuters traveling from New Jersey grew by 70,000, from 250,000 to 320,000…As a result, rail trips in and out of Penn Station have nearly tripled in the last 25 years, bus trips have grown by 83%, and PATH ridership is up by 27%. RPA’s research projects that this trend will continue over the next two decades, requiring far more capacity than the existing facilities can provide. Work trips to Manhattan could increase by 72,000, or 24%, by 2040, while trips to all of New York City could increase by 148,000, a 38% increase, as job growth in the other New York City boroughs rises even faster.
View this complete post...Modeling Taxi Demand with GPS Data
Wednesday, July 23rd, 2014MINETA TRANSPORTATION INSTITUTE
Taxis provide an alternative to conventional public transit services in many cities, and understanding the demand for taxis requires consideration of the role that taxis serve in the greater transportation system. This report presents the results of a study to model taxi demand across time and space, explicitly accounting for the presence and quality of transit service. The primary objective of the study was to identify the factors that drive taxi demand and to understand how this varies by location and time of day. This was accomplished by developing demand models for taxi trip generation and mode choice that explicitly account for the characteristics of transit service in the neighborhoods where trips are made. The resulting insights are useful for making regulatory, planning, and engineering decisions about how to manage taxi markets, accounting for their role in the transportation system.
Interactive Map: Demolitions in Manhattan
Thursday, July 17th, 2014In just a little over a decade Manhattan has seen hundreds of demolitions, from Wall Street to Inwood Heights. AddressReport’s interactive map plays an animation to visualize each and every demolition that took place since 2003.
View this complete post...Great American Infrastructure: The High Line, NYC
Tuesday, January 7th, 2014What: NYC’s Highline Park, constructed on an unused elevated freight rail in the west side of Manhattan
Where: Manhattan’s West Side, between Gansevoort and West 34th Streets
When: The High Line first saw traffic in 1934, and the last train crossed its tracks in 1980. Construction on the park began in 2006, and the first section opened in 2009. Construction on additional sections is projected to continue through 2014.
Bike Share in Manhattan
Friday, January 3rd, 2014Bike Share has taken Manhattan by Storm. The bike share system with over 6000 bikes on Manhattan, and 10,000 system wide gets over 33,000 trips per day. On a chilly…not cold (25 degrees) December morning I wanted to try out the system to see how well it worked, and what riding in Manhattan was about. Check the short video to see what I found.
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