Transportation Roundup

1. NYC's new Strategic Plan for the New York City Department of Transportation 2008 and Beyond.

2. A couple weeks back the Toronto Star ran a massive series on mobility, "Shifting Gears: A Region in Motion":

- Part 1: Road map to recovery
- The genuinely better way
- Video: Metrolinx chair's vision
- Part 2: Where the buck meets the toll road
- London cuts traffic 20%
- Speak Out: Toll roads
- James: Don't alienate drivers
- Part 3: A model for sane transportation
- Part 4: Seattle's success
- Part 5: Time for decisions
- Part 6: Ditching the car
- Part 7: Free transit?
- Graphics Dwindling investment (.pdf)
- Creating the network (.pdf)
- Congested roads, 2001 and 2031 (.pdf)

3. You probably know about the Dulles Rail line being resuscitated and getting federal funding.

4. Thanks to Transportation Alternatives, we know that the new issue of Time Out New York's cover story is on bicycling . See "Great rides" but also "Explore Your Routes" on walking in NYC.

Ideas for the Washingtonian? Washington Post Sunday Magazine?

Time Out New York photo.

5. Unlike presidential candidates McCain and Clinton, Virginia Governor Kaine suggests that state gasoline taxes should be increased to fund transportation improvements in the state. See "Kaine May Float Gas-Tax Increase to Offset Shortfall" from the Post.