Category: Transportation

Reopening subway station bathrooms is the right move, but the MTA can do more

The MTA should commit more resources to maintaining bathrooms’ cleanliness and to improving nonexistent wayfinding to help bathrooms succeed. As recently as early last year, the MTA’s subway bathrooms were “not a priority” for the agency. Since then, they have reversed course and reopened bathrooms in nine stations as of January 2023 and announced that… Read more Reopening subway station bathrooms is the right move, but the MTA can do more

Posted on by Edwin Jeng

Access-A-Ride is already broken – will the MTA deficit make it worse?

With New York City’s transportation system headed to financial ruin, will disabled riders be left behind? Photo Credit: Jose Martinez, THE CITY The MTA’s paratransit system, Access-A-Ride, providing door-to-door shared bus service for disabled New Yorkers who are unable to use other MTA services, faces an uncertain future given the MTA’s ongoing fiscal crisis and… Read more Access-A-Ride is already broken – will the MTA deficit make it worse?

Posted on by Emily Speelman

Delivering Results: Better Data Through Collective Ownership

by Benjamin Listman  Over the course of the COVID pandemic, frontline workers–nurses, doctors, grocery store clerks, waitstaff–garnered the nation’s respect and gratitude to help the rest of us stay safe at home. Although eating establishments eventually reopened across the country, indenser cities like New York, there was a boom in demand for food delivery, highlighting… Read more Delivering Results: Better Data Through Collective Ownership

Posted on by The Wagner Planner

“We Give the City Back to You, The People:” A Human Capital Argument for Congestion Pricing & Permanent Open Streets

by Charley Cohen A city for the people, by the people, but actually for automobiles? The streets of our great city are dominated by cars and trucks, and pedestrians are forced onto small and crowded sidewalks. Shouldn’t our city be more accessible and useable for… people? Cities, by their economic definition, are the clustering of… Read more “We Give the City Back to You, The People:” A Human Capital Argument for Congestion Pricing & Permanent Open Streets

Posted on by The Wagner Planner

Where is My Autonomous Subway?

by Benjamin Listman The world is full of automation. Perhaps most common are manufacturing and industrial automation, which increase efficiency, consistency, and safety. Removing human interaction in favor of machines generally reduces waste, error, and the potential for injury. Nowadays, automation is likely most salient in the automotive industry. I refer, of course, to the… Read more Where is My Autonomous Subway?

Posted on by The Wagner Planner