Gridlock Sam: The Horn-Blowing Streets Of New York City
Sam Schwartz is known worldwide as Gridlock Sam, a nickname the media gave him for his role in drawing up ways to navigate the congested corners of New York City. He designed the traffic patterns around the Barclay Center in Brooklyn the streets around The World Trade Center, and engineered traffi…
Gridlock Sam on Brooklyn Paper Radio: Driverless cars are our terrifying future!
This week on Brooklyn Paper Radio, the transit guru predicts the future of transportation — and it doesn’t look good. Or does it? (No).
Dire straits! Gridlock Sam tells Brooklyn Paper Radio the BQE is an accident waiting to happen!
The traffic and transit specialist repeated his claim that the situation beneath the Brooklyn Heights Promenade is a dire one. That plus Sarah Metz on this edition of Brooklyn Paper Radio!
MTA approves congestion pricing. Here's why the toll could still die.
After about 17 years of controversy, the MTA approved its congestion-pricing plan, a toll to drive below 60th Street in Manhattan, the first of its kind for any city in the country.
Many drivers are not happy in the slightest to pay to drive on public streets.
It's set to start in June, unless t…
November 15, 2024: Evening Roundup
New York’s Clean Slate Act goes into effect on Saturday. Plus, WNYC’s Michael Hill discusses Gov. Hochul’s congestion pricing plan with former New York City traffic commissioner Sam Schwartz, also known as Gridlock Sam. Meanwhile, WNYC’s Janae Pierre’s talks with Democratic State Senator James Sko…
New York finally takes its traffic decongestant
Almost 100 years after New York City officials first considered putting tolls on the East River bridges, drivers are finally being charged to enter Midtown and Lower Manhattan. With a new policy chapter being written, it will likely take time to determine how successful the program is and whether …
"Gridlock" Sam Schwartz: The Father of Congestion Pricing in New York
Popularly known as Gridlock Sam, thanks to his coining of the term, Sam founded Sam Schwartz Consulting in 1995. Previously, he was New York City's Traffic Commissioner and Chief Engineer of the Department of Transportation. Sam started his transportation career in the late 1960’s as a New York ca…
Gridlock Sam, Killer Cars, and the Future of the City
Sam Schwartz is the legendary former Traffic Commissioner of New York City, credited with coining the word “gridlock” during the 1980 transit strike, earning him the moniker “Gridlock Sam.” In this episode, he talks about his new novel Autokill, a thriller the New York Times describes as a “nail-b…
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