Every week, Panel of Business Interests member Sam Schwartz Engineering shares with Empire State Future’s readers updates on New York City, State and National transportation issues. Featured Lawmakers Hit the Gas to Save Highway Fund The Hill New […]
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Major media extol new housing starts as a sign of a robust economy. But this metric ignores the significant service and infrastructure costs that housing–and surplus housing–exacts on local governments and taxpayers. In 2003, Cleveland State University planning professor Tom […]
continue reading Every week, Panel of Business Interests member Sam Schwartz Engineering shares with Empire State Future’s readers updates on New York City, State and National transportation issues. Featured Liberals Are More Likely Than Conservatives to Use Public Transit The […]
continue readingIn what appears to be a monumental decision, New York’s highest court has ruled that municipalities can use their land use and zoning authority to ban hydraulic fracturing for natural gas, or “fracking.” This decision comes as the state continues […]
continue readingEmpire State Future backs up Coalition Member Scenic Hudson’s efforts to protect a key Hudson River location and achieve balanced growth for the Hudson Valley. Letter to the Editor Southern Ulster Times Published June 25, 2014 In regard to […]
continue reading Every week, Panel of Business Interests member Sam Schwartz Engineering shares with Empire State Future’s readers updates on New York City, State and National transportation issues. Featured 12-Cent Hike Fuel Taxes Proposed in Senate AP New York De […]
continue readingCityLab updates and chronicles the City of Buffalo’s work to return a section of Main Street that has been pedestrian-only since the late 1980s to a thoroughfare that allows cars. At the time of its conversion to a pedestrian mall, […]
continue readingDo traffic lights really improve safety and travel efficiency? One writer posits that we might be better off with more unsignalized intersections and fewer traffic lights. Read more here. […]
continue readingYet another piece of research has emerged that suggests that places with traffic congestion are more accessible and economically successful, while places with more road capacity and less congestion possess more accessibility challenges and economic sluggishness. Read more here. […]
continue readingLocal/Regional Farmers market hurts some businesses (Troy) Car share to launch in Albany City of Troy partners with Urban Strategies Inc. to develop master plan Buffalo reborn? Long-suffering upstate NY city sees hope in biggest building boom in 50 years […]
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