Buffalo Niagara Medical Campus offering employees free bus/rail passes

The Buffalo News: "The Medical Campus has launched the “Try Transit” program, an initiative designed to promote bus and rail use among employees. It will provide free NFTA-Metro passes to employees who have not tried local public transportation before.

Try Transit is part of a larger GO BNMC program, which encourages alternative transportation such as public transit, carpooling, biking and walking. It has also worked to make sure the medical campus’s infrastructure is friendly to alternative modes of transport."

Citywide car-free day in New York City is ‘great idea’ but requires planning, expert says

Metro: "For the city that never sleeps, going a full day without cars on the road may seem like an out-of-this-world plan, but according to one transportation expert, the idea is possible — it just needs a little more planning.

On Wednesday, Councilman and Transportation Committee Chair Ydanis Rodriguez announced the launch of the first Car Free NYC to be held on Earth Day, the New York Daily News reported."

People can't get to work in Rochester, NY, area.

Boost public transit aid: "An example of how that investment will pay off can be seen in the more than 9,000 employees in Monroe, Livingston, Ontario and Seneca counties that we are currently unable to serve because their employers have staffing hours that don’t match our route schedules or locations that fall outside our service area.

These companies face employee recruitment and retainment challenges, and having the necessary funds to expand our services to these companies will help provide stability for the employers and employees."

An efficient, unbureaucratic way to fight poverty -- #freetransit

Can better public transit curb inequality in Rochester?: "“We’ve done a good job identifying the problem," said Maureen Duggan, executive director for the Community Design Center. "Now we really need to see what we can do to identify some solutions, to move the needle on poverty.”"

Sprawl pain in Rochester - #publictransit is the medicine needed

rbj.net : "Reconnect Rochester president Mike Governale said less than one-third of jobs in the Rochester area are accessible within a 90-minute trip using public transit.

“The unfortunate reality is that we’re caught in a vicious circle where the people who we’d like to convince to ride public transit choose not to because the system is underfunded,” he said, in a statement. “Meanwhile, those who have no other choice—the people who rely on transit—are being underserved and falling deeper into poverty.”"

New York City residents are the "greenest Americans"

Simon Jenkins | Opinion | The Guardian: "It is modern cities, not Stevens’ countryside, that are truly green, efficient, potentially healthy places. He should read the American environmentalist Ed Glaeser, who points out that the greenest Americans live in Manhattan. They walk a lot, share energy and live in easy reach of jobs, shops and services. “Those who move out to leafy, low-density suburbs,” he says, “leave a significantly deeper carbon footprint than Americans who live cheek by jowl.”"

Oil industry trolls in congress stage another attack on #publictransit

Union looks to save public transit fund for Northeast cities | TheHill: "The ATU's Hanley echoed that sentiment on Thursday, saying that "the seven Northeast states that have received 'high density' money since 2005 likely transport the majority of transit riders in America on a daily basis — New York alone has one-third.""

Councilman wants to remove almost a half-million cars from NYC

New York Post: "City Councilman Ydanis Rodriguez said on Monday that he wants to reduce the number of Big Apple cars by 400,000 in an ambitious attempt to reduce traffic deaths and improve public transportation."

Public transportation can ease parking woes

Letter The Buffalo News: "Increased use of public transportation in the area can help to resolve issues like those the residents of the Fruit Belt face. It is critical that alternatives to automobile parking on the campus be rapidly developed and promoted. The Allen-Medical Campus Rail Station, as an example, is an integral part of the campus and should be better leveraged to reduce parking demand."

"Plan for cars, you get traffic": Why de Blasio would be wrong to depedestrianise Times Square

CityMetric: "Times Square will continue to be a tourist destination, and forcing pedestrians back onto narrow sidewalks is a recipe for certain danger and disaster."