Recent Streetsblog NYC posts about Car-Free Parks

Two-Way Bike Lane Will Cross Central Park Along 72nd Street

By Noah Kazis | Mar 20, 2012 | 22 Comments

This summer, cyclists will have a second path to safely cross Central Park. At a meeting of CB 7’s Parks Committee last night, Central Park Conservancy President Doug Blonsky announced that the Department of Transportation will paint a new two-way bike lane along 72nd Street all the way between Central Park West and Fifth Avenue, […]

Prospect Park Users: Thanks for the Road Diet, Now Let’s Make It Car-Free

By Noah Kazis | Feb 29, 2012 | 16 Comments

Brooklynites like the idea of reducing the number of motor vehicle lanes cutting through Prospect Park from two to one. They’d like zero even better. A crowd of roughly 150 gathered in the Prospect Park Picnic House last night to hear a proposal from the Prospect Park Alliance’s road sharing task force. As reported yesterday, the […]

The Prospect Park Road Diet: A Big Improvement That Only Goes Halfway

By Ben Fried | Feb 28, 2012 | 39 Comments

At a public meeting tonight, the Prospect Park Road Sharing Task Force will present a plan to double the amount of space for pedestrians on the Prospect Park loop and reduce confusion between pedestrians and cyclists during the vast majority of time that the park is car-free. The Prospect Park Alliance established the task force last July […]

Doctors’ Note Says Complete Streets Are Vital to New York’s Health

By Brad Aaron | Sep 22, 2011 | 4 Comments

Transportation Alternatives and the New York Chapter of the American Association of Family Physicians today released a letter to Mayor Bloomberg, signed by 140 medical professionals from a broad spectrum of specialties, praising the city’s bike and pedestrian infrastructure as essential to the health of New Yorkers. It’s a solid counterweight to the hysteria surrounding […]

Confirmed: DOT Studying More Car-Free Time in Central Park

By Noah Kazis | Jul 26, 2011 | 7 Comments

Last week, automated traffic counters were seen popping up on the loop drive in Central Park. That led many to believe that the Department of Transportation was gathering data to set a baseline for future changes to the hours cars are allowed into the park, a fact which has now been confirmed. Wrote Manhattan DOT […]

Manhattan Borough Board Unanimously Endorses Car-Free Central Park Trial

By Noah Kazis | Jul 22, 2011 | 5 Comments

Though Mayor Bloomberg has ruled out the possibility of implementing a car-free Central Park trial this year, opting for further data collection instead, public support for the proposal continues to grow. At a meeting of the Manhattan Borough Board yesterday, the car-free trial picked up support from still more community boards and new City Council […]

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