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• Dying to Get to Work

  Published: July 27, 2007, 1:01 pm

  Tags: Climate Change, Commuting, Air Quality, Transit, Public Health, Energy, Studies Amp 038 Reports

  As New York State sets up a commission to study the costs and benefits of New York City's congestion pricing proposal, a new study by the Clean Air Task Force finds that, for many New Yorkers, the greatest exposure to dangerous and unhealthy air pollution comes during the daily commute. "Although we spend only about six percent of our day

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• The Urban Transportation Report Card

  Published: August 20, 2007, 11:30 am

  Tags: Air Quality, Transit, Urban Planning, Parks, Transportation Policy, Livable Streets, Buses, Car Culture, Bicycling, Pedestrian Safety, Public Health, Quality Of Life, Studies Amp 038 Reports

  Transportation Alternatives has teamed up with cycling advocates from Chicago, San Francisco and Seattle to issue the Urban Transportation Report Card (PDF), which rates these cities' progress on greening their transportation systems. The report notes that transportation accounts for 20-60% of carbon emissions in major U.S. cities, so it

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• Delivering the Goods to a Growing New York

  Published: August 23, 2007, 10:15 am

  Tags: Trucks, Infrastructure, Economics, Energy, Studies Amp 038 Reports

  of Transportation Policy & Management teamed up with the New York Metropolitan Transportation Council to host an event focused on current and future freight needs in the New York metro region. Their report cited increased consumption and congestion as serious challenges to moving goods in and around the city: Since 1980, New York

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• City Pedestrian Crossings Are Discriminatory by Design

  Published: December 17, 2007, 2:09 pm

  Tags: Walking, Public Health, Pedestrian Safety, Studies Amp 038 Reports

  for a public awareness campaign to educate drivers and the public as to what it is like to be a senior pedestrian. This seems like an ideal cause for the Daily News, concerned as they are with the ages of cyclists hit and killed by drivers. Photo: Transportation AlternativesShare this

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• The Kheel Plan: Double the Congestion Charge & Make Transit Free

  Published: December 18, 2007, 2:46 pm

  Tags: Transportation Policy, Congestion Pricing, Studies Amp 038 Reports

  "If you were to design the ultimate system, you would have mass transit be free and charge an enormous amount for cars." So said Mayor Michael Bloomberg last April, right about the time he unveiled his plan to charge motorists a fee to drive into Manhattan's central business district. Eight months later, as the mayor's

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• A Q&A With Ted Kheel, Free Transit Advocate

  Published: January 9, 2008, 1:41 pm

  Tags: Transportation Policy, Transit, Congestion Pricing, Studies Amp 038 Reports

  Gothamist caught up with Ted Kheel, the 93 year old head of the Nurture New York's Nature Foundation, which addresses the "fundamental conflict between development and the environment." Kheel will release the findings of his study "The Kheel Plan for Balancing Free Transit and Congestion Pricing in New York City" later this

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• We Are Breathing Oil in Our Big Cities

  Published: February 20, 2008, 10:50 am

  Tags: Air Quality, Public Health, Studies Amp 038 Reports

  In three different studies presented at the American Association for the Advancement of Science's annual meeting in Boston last weekend, researchers "provided mounting evidence that air pollution can both increase the risk of cardiovascular disease in the long-term and induce heart attacks within hours of traffic exposure." While the

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• Share Your Experience as a New York Bicycle Commuter

  Published: March 7, 2008, 12:50 pm

  Tags: Bicycling, Studies Amp 038 Reports

  Department of Urban Affairs & Planning, is surveying bike commuters in the city to see how they view the built environment. You can take the survey here. Ides has also set up a website, Hubs and Spokes, to provide more information about his research. Here's what he has to say about his survey: In a city that is dominated by the

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• A Citywide Prescription for Livable Streets

  Published: August 7, 2008, 2:12 pm

  Tags: Ddc, Nycedc, Department Of City Planning, Office Of Long Term Planning And Sustainability, Transportation Alternatives, Livable Streets, Dot, Department Of Health Amp Amp Mental Hygiene, Studies Amp 038 Reports

  "Streets to Live By" marshals data from several cities to make the case for investing in livable streets in New York.Today Transportation Alternatives released "Streets to Live By" [PDF], the report previewed last week in the Observer. It seeks to define what makes a street livable and to synthesize a broad range of data,

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• Congestion Costs Chicago $7.3 Billion Per Year

  Published: August 13, 2008, 11:01 am

  Tags: Chicago, Congestion Pricing, Studies Amp 038 Reports

  a lack of choice. A prime example is a mass transit network that more efficiently moves people to and from home, work, stores, schools, and other transportation hubs to give people more choice in how to get around.Photo: Metropolitan Planning

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