See It: People Really Enjoy Open Streets When Cars are Banished
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Kids having fun. Neighbors meeting neighbors. Everyone walking safe. And a lot of it!
Recent Streetsblog NYC posts about Car-Free Streets
Open Streets Program is Really Testing the Definition of 'Compromise'
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Whose compromise? Our compromise!
TODAY: Council to Pass Law Mandating Fuller, Bolder Open Streets Program
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The City Council will close the gap of leadership exhibited by the de Blasio administration on making permanent the open streets program — mandating more open streets, allowing for their conversion into 24-7 car-free zones and ensuring that they are equitably distributed.
Tuesday’s Headlines: Another Day, Another Busway Edition
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Washington Heights was seeing red on Monday as the DOT made good on its promise to help beleaguered bus riders on a street that the city had been grappling with for a decade. Yes, W. 181st Street got its Busway. Plus other news.
A Round and a Roundy: Bullies Are Destroying Sleepy de Blasio’s Open Streets ‘Program’
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Our national treasure cartoonist knows what's going on with the city's open streets program: the mayor is not only asleep at the switch, but he's also turned his back to the real problem.
BUDGET DAY: Mayor Proposes Small Money for Open Streets, But Big Bucks to Finish the Manhattan Greenway
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Mayor de Blasio says his open streets are "permanent" — but he isn't budgeting any money to make them a permanent part of the streetscape.