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How Do We Fix the Hellish Heat of the New York City Subway System?
It’s time to treat subway heat like the climate adaptation issue and public health hazard that it is.
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Tackling Crowd Management in Subways During Pandemics
Columbia researchers are working with the MTA to develop machine learning and traffic models to optimize traffic flow during pandemics.
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Congestion Pricing is Stuck in New York’s Political Traffic
The subway system requires new signals, switches, cars, and expanded routes. While congestion pricing can’t pay for all of that, it can help.
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Let’s Build a Train From Brooklyn to Queens and Someday to the Bronx
Let’s build that interborough train line and once it’s up and running, build a second phase to the Bronx.
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New York’s Overly Political Approach to Mass Transit
The time for a comprehensive fix for this region’s mass transit is long overdue.
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New York Is Still Feeling the Effects of Hurricane Sandy, Five Years Later
In October 2012, Sandy devastated large swaths of the city with floods and fire. How well have we recovered? And will we be ready for the next big storm?
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Going Electric Adds up to a Good Idea for NYC Buses
New York City Transit is considering adding electric buses to its fleet. The purchase price of electric buses is higher than for diesel buses-, but using them would reduce harmful emissions. So is this a good idea?
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How to Rethink Urban Transit, and Pay for It, Too
“We have conflated mobility with access, but mobility is not the same as access. The best solution to a transportation problem is to not have to travel. The city itself was invented as a solution to a transportation problem. We have cities so we don’t have to travel.”
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