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NYC Mayor Bloomberg calls for free crosstown buses to ease traffic

If that NYC crosstown traffic is slowing you down, you might like Mayor Bloomberg's invitation to New Yorker's to come on and take a free ride. Apparently, certain crosstown buses run so slow that the Mayor wants to introduce dedicated bus lanes stop collecting fares on them in an effort to speed things up. The measure is just one of many new steps the re-electioneering Independent would like to see implemented to improve the mass transit system in the Big Apple. Other steps call for extending some lines and services as well as using smaller ... Read more →

NYC will survey residents on electric cars Sebastian Blanco

It is common for cities to contribute to the electric vehicle world by working with automakers and/or utilities to build EV charging stations. New York City will be taking a slightly different ...

Actor Matthew Modine brings Bike for a Day event to NYC Sebastian Blanco

Last month, New York City closed down a few streets to automobile traffic in an attempt to get people out of their cars and into the fresh air (well, the New York air, anyway). The Summer Streets ...

NYC gets hit with lawsuit over "unsafe" hybrid taxis Sebastian Blanco

While the shift to hybrid taxis in New York City has been moving forward for a while now, not everyone thinks that the yellow cabs should be cleaner just yet. Who, you ask? Well, the Metropolitan ...

New York City trying car-free experiment in August Sebastian Blanco

"Play. Run. Walk. Breathe." That's the tagline for this summer's biggest no-car experiment in the U.S. For three Saturdays in August (the 9th, 16th, and 23rd) certain streets in New York City will be ...

NYC hybrid taxis double in a year. Guess which is the most popular? 1 year ago on Autoblog Green

Since it was decided that the entire fleet of taxis in New York City should become hybrids by 2012 less than a year ago, the number of hybrid hacks has doubled. If the city can achieve that same 200 percent increase every year it will achieve the goal. Out of 13,150 taxi medallions 1020 (just under ...

NYC Council approves traffic free plan for Manhattan 1 year ago on Autoblog Green

It's finally arrived. NYC is copying London's Congestion Charge. The City Council voted 30 to 20 for a Home Rule resolution asking lawmakers to approve a Senate Bill empowering the city to impose the traffic plan. Congestion pricing, as the plan is called. How does it work? The congestion charging ...

NYC fleet of limousines to meet fuel-efficiency standards 1 year ago on Autoblog Green

NYC efficiency is not only for cabs, the Big Apple is going to get better limousines as well. At least, that's the plan. The city's entire fleet of roughly 10,000 chauffeured cars, mostly black, would be required to meet fuel efficiency standards, currently attainable with hybrids, of 25 miles a ...

NYC is looking for "The taxi of tomorrow" 1 year ago on Autoblog Green

Are you an automaker interested in having your cars cruising the streets of the Big Apple as taxicabs? If so, then keep on reading. New York's Taxi and Limousine Commission (TLC) has created a website with a request for information (RFI) that seeks information on ways to bring the "next iconic taxi ...

Will NYC get the congestion charge in early 2008? 1 year ago on Autoblog Green

At least as early at April 2007, public officials in New York City were publicly engaged in a discussion about instituting a congestion charge in the Big Apple. Heck, Mayor Bloomberg even had the daily dollar amount picked out: $8. But the plan faltered and we haven't heard much recently. Until ...

Local solutions to the energy dilemma conference happening in NYC this weekend 3 years ago on Autoblog Green

If you’re in NYC this weekend with nothing to do (ha!) you might want to check out this conference on how local action can make a big difference in the international world of energy. The conference has interesting plenary sessions, with titles like “The Paradigm is the Enemy: The State ...


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