Recent Streetsblog NYC posts about Paris

Beyond Thermoplast, Street Signs and Signal Timing

By Aaron Naparstek | Sep 26, 2006 | 21 Comments

Last week we asked the Department of Transportation why the agency had not followed through on making safety improvements on the Fifth Avenue bike lane in Brooklyn by end-of-summer. DOT responded with a statement saying that "Share the Road" signs had, in fact, been installed and that, as part of the new citywide bike safety […]

Traffic Continues to Disappear in Paris

By Ethan Kent | Aug 11, 2006 | 4 Comments

In 2001, shortly after being elected the Mayor of Paris on a platform promising to "fight, with all the means at my disposal, against the harmful, ever-increasing and unacceptable hegemony of the automobile," Bertrand Delanoë began implementing a series of far-reaching transportation reforms throughout the City of Light. With New York City Department of Transportation Commissioner […]

No Thongs on the Pompidou Expressway! Tomorrow the F.D.R.?

By Aaron Naparstek | Aug 1, 2006 | 3 Comments

Streestblog foreign correspondent Geoff Zink sends in this snapshot from Paris, France, where every summer since 2002 an expressway running along the River Seine has been transformed into a beach and linear park. More from Geoff on Flickr. Today, the New York Times reports the new rules: No toplessness. No thongs. "If people want to […]