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NYC Trumpets 2012 Street Statistics: More Transit, Less Traffic
(WNYC) Redesigning New York City streets to be more pedestrian- and cyclist-friendly doesn't hurt car travel times. That's according to a new report quantifying the streetscape-changing efforts of the Department of Transportation.
To put it in other terms: transit ridership is up, traffic is down, and there's been a 58 percent increase in cycling since 2008.
That data is laid out in the latest 2012 Sustainable Streets Index, an annual report released by the NYC DOT tracking transportation trends.
The report also uses crash data; vehicle, cyclist, and pedestrian volumes; transit ridership; and travel times (largely tracked through taxi GPS data) to measure the effectiveness of the city's street alternation projects. .........................(more)
The complete piece is at: http://www.wnyc.org/blogs/transportation-nation/2013/sep/05/nyc-streets-safer/