Tag: transportation

U3-X

for tourists who can’t be bothered to stand on a segway.

Best Corners to Hail a Cab in NYC

3rd ave / 11th for us. too bad they do not link to the data.

Extreme Commuting

A commuter who travels 1 hour, one way, would have to make 40% more than his current salary to be as fully satisfied with his life as a noncommuter.

Mail Volume Decline

We’re like air. People just take it for granted that we’re always going to be there.

uhm, no.

Car-Free Times Square

By simply removing motor vehicles from Broadway around Times and Herald Squares and inviting pedestrians in with seating, street performers, good people-watching — and a naked cowboy — New York City has created 2 great new public spaces for tourists, office workers and, yes, even jaded residents.

car-free times square. hopefully, a seismic shift in the making.

NYC ridership since 1905

too bad openlayers / geoserver / postgis is slow as shit.

L Train CBTC

Motormen working the Brooklyn-Manhattan line will remain on board as a token gesture to humanity’s fading relevance, and as way of placating Luddites worried about some sinister runaway HAL train making a break for New Jersey. The “Communications Based Train Control” [CBTC] will kick in tomorrow, (theoretically) enabling NYC Transit to relieve overcrowding by running trains closer together than the current signal system allows.

the first step to destroy the MTA unions. watch service improve overnight. the rest of the nyc subway still runs on a control system that is 100 years old.

Boosting Car Mileage by 10%

“This is a disruptive technology. It’s a game-changer.”

how is a 10% increase a game changer, exactly? are we so close to the limit that bigger increases are infeasible?

Bike Lanes

Augmented reality again. Similar to that projected pedestrian crossing. The system projects a virtual bike lane (using lasers!) on the ground around the cyclists, providing drivers with a recognizable boundary they can easily avoid.
2013-05-11: this is the kind of stuff needing to be shoved down the throats of the many NIMBY assholes around town.

NYC DOT found that protected bikeways had a significant positive impact on local business strength. After the construction of a protected bicycle lane on 9th Avenue, local businesses saw a 49% increase in retail sales.

2016-09-21: I approve

shadowy activists, who seem to have a warehouse of orange cones, have been erecting protected lanes around San Francisco that last for brief periods before they (or someone else) remove them. The group joins others nationwide to push for safe roads with guerrilla actions, including organizations in New York, Boston, and Portland.

2023-03-11: NYPD right of way regulations

Marked NYPD vehicles

Unmarked NYPD vehicles

Vehicles with a Thin Blue Line flag bumper sticker

A dumpster with the Punisher logo on it

Film crews for Blue Bloods

Vehicles whose owner’s cousin used to work for the city (any city is fine)

Amazon delivery trucks

Pedestrians walking against traffic

Any double-parked motorized vehicle

Regular film crews

50. Cyclists

NYC Sustainable Transport Award

In 2008, New York City took 200K m2 of road space, traffic lanes and parking spots away from cars and gave it back to the public for bike lanes, pedestrian areas and public plazas.