On Friday, the New York City Department of Transportation unveiled a new temporary outdoor exhibit on a 50-foot corrugated fence under the Ed Koch Queensboro Bridge at the junction of Vernon Boulevard and South Queens Plaza in Queens. The show, called When it opens like this, up is not over, exhibits six large-scale color photographs…
As Zipcar, Hertz On Demand and other car share startups spread across the nation, city by city, why is it that some places get car sharing programs, and others don’t? What makes a city ripe for collective cars? We asked the companies how they choose.
If you do not see flash audio player please install the latest flash player. Download MP3 It’s not often that Transportation Nation receives musical fan email. We’re more used to getting missives from the Bureau of Transportation Statistics or press releases from elected officials. (Or emails from publicists asking “are you a SERIAL RELATIONSHIP KILLER?…
We took KALW’s news magazine, Crosscurrents, on the road and devoted an entire show to life on two wheels in the SF Bay Area. Our intrepid (and very fit) executive news editor, Ben Trefny, hosted the show while riding 23 miles all over San Francisco. You can listen to the whole show here: In it,…
Leaders in Howard County, Maryland, and the unincorporated town of Columbia are trying to figure out whether something that seems to be working quite well in more urban areas can be part of the plan going forward in their neck of the woods — they’re exploring the potential of bike sharing. The two municipalities have…
Talks broke down today between New York’s Transport Workers Local Union 100 and New York’s Metropolitan Transportation Authority. Members of The Transport Workers Union gathered in the lobby of New York City Transit headquarters in Lower Manhattan and accused the authority of bargaining in the media, instead of at the negotiation table. Local 100 President…
The NY Metropolitan Transportation Authority says blasting for the creation of the Second Avenue subway line has not increased pollution. But something else apparently did elevate some pollutants during the time the air was being tested. The MTA commissioned the study from private firm Parsons Brinckerhoff. It did find elevated levels of three pollutants…
(Jonathan Wilson – WAMU) Two D.C. Metro workers have been charged with stealing thousands of dollars in coins from fare machines. Federal prosecutors allege 58-year-old Horace McDade, of Bowie, Md., and 54-year-old John V. Haile, of Woodbridge, Va., worked as a team to systematically pilfer from the transit agency’s malfunctioning fare machines. McDade is a revenue…
The Netherlands are lauded the world over as a biking success story — but as this documentary shows, it wasn’t always that way. In fact, the model cycling culture that exists there today is the product of a protest movement to revive a historical bike legacy that had been lost. In the early 1900s, bike…
Oakland has the fifth busiest port in the country. According to the Port of Oakland, they support between 50,000 and 73,000 jobs in Northern California, making it one of the Bay Area’s biggest economic engines. The Port of Oakland says that economic development is its primary driver, but the truck drivers who make a living…
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