Recent Streetsblog NYC posts about Traffic Calming

34th Precinct Promises Action on Broadway and Dongan

By Brad Aaron | | No Comments
This spiffy new illuminated bus stop shelter replaces another destroyed by a  motorist at Broadway and Dongan Place, near the border of Inwood and Washington Heights. The 34th Precinct says it will enact new enforcement measures to cut down on reckless driving along a crash-prone stretch of Broadway in Northern Manhattan. As promised, residents of […]

Infinite Jest

By Aaron Naparstek | | 4 Comments
Here’s a little back-to-school fun: With the help of an underground tunnel this group of 94 high school seniors from who-knows-where created a never-ending line of pedestrians crossing the street, not allowing a single car to pass for a full 15 minutes. Granted, it’s a bit man power-intensive but wow, is this ever an effective […]

Last Weekend of Summer Marked by Child’s Death

By Brad Aaron | | No Comments
The city’s public schools are back in session today, and students, parents and staff at P.S. 24 in Sunset Park should have a safer intersection to contend with at 38th St. and Fourth Ave., near a BQE off-ramp, following a simple signal timing adjustment. The Daily News reports: After months of community pressure, city Department of Transportation […]

Central Park 66th Street Transverse Is Unsafe

By Glenn McAnanama | | 11 Comments
A Streetsblog reader brings us an update on the case of the cyclist killed last December in the Central Park Transverse, through information obtained via a Freedom of Information Act request. In the documents sent to Streetsblog, it shows that the motor vehicle "struck the bicyclist as both vehicles attempted to merge into the same path […]

Make That 21 Council Members in Favor of Pricing

By Aaron Naparstek | | 4 Comments
Council Member Alan Gerson bikes in support of safer cross-town cycling route for Lower Manhattan, Sept. 2006. Villager photo by Jefferson Siegel Following the Gotham Gazette’s surprising report that he was the only Manhattan City Council Member firmly against Mayor Bloomberg’s congestion pricing plan, Lower Manhattan City Council member Alan Gerson has issued a statement […]

Meatpacking Plaza Update

By Aaron Naparstek | | 3 Comments
Here’s another photo from Mike Epstein showing progress on the Ninth Avenue redesign at 15th and 14th Streets. The photo is looking southbound. It’s looking like most of the traffic engineering is basically done — note the new bike lane running along the left-hand side of the photo. Now let’s see what sort of public […]
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