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Headline	Author	Published	Section
NYC subways: One kilowatt-hour per trip Subways are the best	Jon Rynn	10 Aug 2007	Gristmill
Recently I tracked down an article on the annual electricity use of the New York City subway system: 1.8 billion kilowatt-hours (kwh). To put that in perspective, the entire U.S. economy uses about 4,000 billion kwh annually. According to the New York City Metropolitan Transit Authority, there were 1.499 billion trips made on the subway in 2006. So it takes a little over 1 kwh to move one person on trips, of varying length, in New York City. That's 4.1 million riders p ...
Topics: New York, New York City, placemaking, public transportation (all these topics)

Congestion pricing saves more than it costs Bloomberg’s law: Environment equals economic growth	Grist	28 Jul 2007	Gristmill
This guest essay comes from Steven Cohen and Jacob Victor. Steven Cohen is executive director of Columbia University's Earth Institute and director of its Master of Public Administration Program in Environmental Science and Policy at the School of International and Public Affairs. Jacob Victor is an intern at Columbia's Earth Institute. After overcoming numerous obstacles in Albany, New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg's controversial congestion-pricing plan finally appear ...
Topics: cars, green living, New York, New York City, placemaking, politics, public transportation, urban planning (all these topics)

Jam Plan Is Toast NYC mayor's traffic-reducing proposal shot down, for now		18 Jul 2007	Daily Grist
Jam Plan Is Toast NYC mayor's traffic-reducing proposal shot down, for now New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg's congestion-fee proposal, reportedly down to the wire on Monday, is now just down, period. The plan would have charged a fee for Manhattan-bound vehicles during peak hours, but the state Senate adjourned without voting on the measure after Democrats made it clear that th ...
Topics: New York City, news, placemaking, public transportation, urban planning (all these topics)

No Rush Hour New York hems and haws over Manhattan congestion fees		16 Jul 2007	Daily Grist
No Rush Hour New York hems and haws over Manhattan congestion fees Today is a make-or-break, do-or-die, fish-or-cut-bait, poo-or-get-off-the-pot, we-wish-we-could-think-of-more-hyphenated-clichés day for New York, as state legislators, Governor Eliot Spitzer, and New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg wrestle over Bloomberg' ...
Topics: climate, health, innovation, New York City, news, placemaking, politics, public transportation, state politics, urban planning (all these topics)

The Bronx Is Up and the Battery's Under the Hood New York City will convert entire taxi fleet to hybrids		23 May 2007	Daily Grist
The Bronx Is Up and the Battery's Under the Hood New York City will convert entire taxi fleet to hybrids The big yellow taxis of the Big Apple will all be hybrids by 2012 under a plan announced yesterday by Mayor Michael Bloomberg. The city has been testing 375 hybrid cabs for 18 months, and will soon begin converting its 13,000-vehicle fleet. "It will be the largest, cleanest fleet of taxis an ...
Topics: New York City, news, placemaking, public transportation (all these topics)

HopStop	David Roberts	16 May 2007	Gristmill
Not long ago, our own JMG lamented the fact that online map services don't include transit-oriented directions. Well, lookee here: HopStop, your city transit guide. OK, it's only for NYC, but still, sounds pretty cool: HopStop is your city transit guide. We provide door-to-door subway and bus directions and maps for New York City. You can also search for places to eat, drink, sleep and see in the City Guide. With HopStop you can: - Send directions by e-mail ...
Topics: placemaking, public transportation, New York City (all these topics)

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