John Hennessy III,
P.E.
Get ready to attend the Smart Cities NY 2018 conference, taking place May 8-10 in NYC. The first day’s events will be held a the Brooklyn Navy Yard, and the remainder of the conference will take place at Pier 36 in lower Manhattan. Attendees can expect a packed schedule, with dozens of high-profile speakers. From […]
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YouTube channel “City Beautiful” travels to Medellin to document a functioning transit system based on urban gondolas. Several proposals could bring similar transit options to the United States, where cities like New York and Portland have already adopted small scale urban gondola use.
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Each year, Regional Plan Association (RPA) brings together more than 1,000 civic and business leaders from around the New York metropolitan area to discuss major issues affecting the prosperity and quality of life in the region. The 2018 Assembly will feature Big Ideas that Can’t Wait — ideas we need to move forward on today to tackle some of the region’s biggest challenges in order to ensure sustainability, good governance and shared prosperity.
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The following projects are finalists to receive the American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE) Outstanding Civil Engineering Awards.
The winner, one of the among five finalists, will be revealed at ASCE’s OPAL Gala, March 15, in Arlington, VA.
To see videos of all the finalists, check out ASCE’s YouTube playlist
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The MTA Genius Transit Challenge is an international competition seeking innovative solutions to modernize and improve the reliability of the New York City subway system.
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TRANSPORTATION 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 […]
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We must act now. Our entire metropolitan economy is at risk if we fail to do a better job of maintaining, modernizing, and expanding our key regional infrastructure networks, including roads, bridges, railroads, subways, and airports. A number of themes and key issues emerged from these forums.
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Extreme cold and winter storms means NYC subway service may change. Learn more about our Winter Weather Travel Guide at http://web.mta.info/coldWeather/ –mtainfo on YouTube
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The rapid growth of app-based ride services such as Uber and Lyft has raised concerns in large U.S. cities such as New York. San Francisco, Chicago and Seattle about their impacts on traffic congestion and public transportation ridership. In New York City, the growth of app-based ride services (often called “Transportation Network Companies,” or TNCs) has raised questions about how anti-congestion plans being developed by Governor Andrew Cuomo and Mayor Bill de Blasio should address TNCs’ contributions to traffic congestion.
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Subway reliability is way down, and the bus system is shedding riders at an alarming rate. And because transit is so unreliable, today New York is accommodating growth in cars, in the form of the tens of thousands of Uber and Lyft vehicles we now find on our streets each day.
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