#transportation-policy

#transportation-policy

Gridlock is costing our economy billions of dollars every year and robbing Ontario drivers of valuable time and quality of life. He added the changes would help keep drivers moving across the province.

A lot of them seemed focused on getting back to what they had, rather than working with the reality we have right now. The minority that voted for the park is a big and motivated voting bloc, and it feels like all the candidates are just very casually ignoring that.

On Tuesday morning, Los Angeles World Airports board members are expected to vote on whether to increase the access fees for private transportation companies that ferry travelers to and from Los Angeles International Airport, which includes ride app companies such as Uber and Lyft, along with taxi and limousine companies. The thinking, according to airport officials, is to encourage riders to use the yet-to-open Automated People Mover, also known as Skylink, and to reduce vehicle traffic around the terminals.

The political and cultural reasons why U.S. residents keep buying the most ugly, inefficient, and dangerous vehicles on the market - or more accurately, why automakers refuse to sell almost anything else.

Like most everyone in town, we got all hot and bothered after the Transit Costs Project put out a report arguing that the city and state should raise $1 billion per year over 40 years to fund a massive expansion of the subway system, bringing the joy (and economic development) of truly rapid transit to more neighborhoods.

The permit is still in place, and Waymo's plans for New York City are still likely to move ahead, as Hochul's rescinded proposal governed areas outside the Big Apple. The Alphabet subsidiary, which offers paid driverless rides to the public in cities in the San Francisco Bay Area, along with parts of Los Angeles, Phoenix, Austin, Atlanta and other cities, was hoping to grow its already sizable foothold in the robotaxi market and tap into a large pool of new users.

City Council Speaker Julie Menin is making good on her pledge to reinvigorate outdoor dining in the Big Apple. On Wednesday, she announced plans advance legislation to allow restaurants and bars to set up curbside year-round - reversing the winter ban enacted under her car-first predecessor Adrienne Adams. Adams, meanwhile, is Gov. Hochul's new pick to be the state's lieutenant governor, a position currently held by Antonio Delgado, who's gone rogue and is running against Hochul in June's Democratic primary.

Hundreds of preventable fatalities and more than 13 million metric tons of climate pollution would be avoided by 2045 if Congress passed legislation that answered advocates' long- time demand to require state DOTs to set declining annual fatality targets - and reallocate highway money to safety projects if they don't meet those goals, according to a new analysis from Evergreen Action.

Barring unforeseen lunacy, come November, you'll be voting on cars on the Great Highway - for the third time since 2022. Like PAY YOUR PROPERTY TAXES BY DECEMBER 10 AND APRIL 10!!! there are some things you can apparently mark in permanent pen on your calendar. At the statewide level, you'll be voting about kidney dialysis and, locally, you'll be voting on this.

We write to you today in alarm. It has come to our attention that the Administration is planning to move parking enforcement from OakDOT to Finance. While this may appear as a simple administrative shift, it is a strategic error that will undermine Oakland's transit, safety, and economic goals. Please initiate review with Council through issuing a Statement of Purpose for their review, and delay these changes until approved by Council.

What I am trying to do is provide healthier options for people. And again, who doesn't love a greasy burger at the airport? I know I do. Sometimes you're grabbing chips, but other options when you want that healthy choice, that you can have access to, 'cause whenever I make those bad choices, I always feel like garbage when I get on the plane. Letting people have a better option, I think, is what we're focusing on here.

The St. George route runs about every 37 minutes during peak hours and roughly every 50 minutes during non-peak hours, with stops in western Manhattan at Midtown West/Pier 79 and Battery Park City before reaching Staten Island's St. George Terminal. Travel time from St. George to Bay Ridge's ferry slip at the American Veterans Memorial near Owl's Head Park is approximately 11 minutes.

Menin declared victory right before Thanksgiving - earlier than any speaker candidate in New York history - but with weeks to go before the actual vote there is still time for Council members to reconsider. The "vote pledges" that Menin has in her pocket are worth only a little bit more than the press release they're printed on, and as one reporter once said about the shifting sands of these alliances, " politics ain't beanbag."

Regular people make political transportation decisions all the time without realizing it. For example, when a person in a car-dependent place decides to go anywhere, they may not feel like they are making a transportation choice, and they may not be aware of how their choice affects others. From their perspective, they are not choosing to drive to a destination; they are just choosing to go there, and they may feel like a car is their only option.

As New Yorkers prepare to vote, one issue quietly shapes nearly every aspect of city life: how we move. Streets, subways, buses, taxis, and for-hire vehicles do not always capture as much attention as housing or public safety, but the next mayor will have tremendous influence over the transportation systems that affect millions of residents, workers, and visitors every day.

"Cars ruin everything." That's the bold opening line of Life After Cars, the new book by celebrated transportation media figures Sarah Goodyear, Doug Gordon, and Aaron Naparstek. The writers make a case for that initial assertion, detailing the various ways cars-or, more specifically, car culture as we currently know it-ruin childhoods, destroy wildlife, perpetuate societal injustices, and kill people, to name a few particularly negative effects.