Tag: Transportation
Last year, New York City began requiring that all long distance busses have a permit to operate in the city. On August 15th, the grace period to acquire those permits will be over, reports DNAinfo. Busses operating illegally, as many still do in Chinatown, will face fines between $500 to $2,500 for repeat offenses, according […]
Previously, we posted a map that plotted every taxi trip made around New York in 2013. Now, Chris Whong has given us a tiny crisp slice of that mass blur of data. NYC Taxis: A Day In The Life, is an interactive map of the trips taken in one day in 2013 by a single yellow […]
The activity tracker app Human has created a set of beautiful maps that show the movement of a city in a day period. These luminescent maps were created with the data collected from people using the app as they moved around major cities by walking, running, biking and motorized transport. The maps fade in from black to outline […]
Since the eleven-day transit strike of 1980, another transportation system formed in New York’s five boroughs — a network of unauthorized shuttle vans. After the bus and subway service returned, the vans remained in service, still charging a dollar to drive locals around in places where city transit was desperately lacking. The New Yorker created a […]
We’ve griped before about the city government’s dogged refusal to funnel any public funding to Citi Bike, and now, City Hall wants a $1 million payout from the cash-strapped program. As the Wall Street Journal points out, the city’s contract with Alta Bicycle Share, the company that operates Citi Bike, stipulates a payment from Alta to […]
The Rockaway ferry — instituted in 2012 to cope with transit outages after Hurricane Sandy — has funding to continue running through this summer while the city seeks a permanent third-party operator. According to am New York, Mayor de Blasio’s executive budget contains $2 million to keep the service going. “Our local homeowners and businesses are […]
The future is living above the Woodside Long Island Railroad station in a “heterogeneous and highly linked set of living environments” as an “alternative to current urban renewal based modes of densification through an exploration of symbiotic re-purposing of air rights above transportation existing corridors.” At least, according to the architects of AMLGM, it is. […]
Getting a cheap ride down Atlantic or Flatbush Avenue may get more difficult, as the NYPD is aggressively going after dollar vans, those unlicensed commuter vehicles that whip up and down Brooklyn’s main drags. The community group Equality for Flatbush is fighting back. “Most drivers are Caribbean or people of color,” Imani Henry, an organizer with the […]
