Recent Streetsblog NYC posts about Traffic Calming

Effective Traffic Calming Device: The Frisbee

By Jason Varone | Jul 27, 2007 | 8 Comments

From Sean Roche at the Newton Streets and Sidewalks blog: Want to slow traffic? Throw a frisbee across the street. That’s what six-year-old son of NS&S and I learned on Sunday. Please note that we did not throw the frisbee in front of traffic. We stopped throwing as soon as any car approached. But, our […]

In Chicago, Parks Funded By Parking Garages

By Jason Varone | Jul 16, 2007 | 3 Comments

Mayor Richard Daley has been aggressive in transforming Chicago into a more livable city, cracking down on sociopathic motorists, encouraging traffic-calming, promoting bicycling and paying attention to the nitty gritty environmental impacts of street design. The Chicago Tribune recently reported on the Mayor’s latest effort to fund citywide park-improvements projects using revenues from city-owned parking […]

More Meatpacking Plaza Construction Photos

By Jason Varone | Jul 13, 2007 | 1 Comment

More shots of the street redesign project underway just north of 14th Street at Ninth Avenue: Photos: Clarence Eckerson, Mike Epstein

It’s Getting Better All the Time

By Clarence Eckerson Jr. | Jul 9, 2007 | 1 Comment

NYC is ChangingA StreetFilm by Clarence Eckerson Jr. Running Time: 1 minute 55 seconds Clarence Eckerson put together a really nice little StreetFilm featuring some of the public space improvements that are now underway in various parts of New York City. He’s got before-and-after shots of 9th Street Bike Lane, DUMBO Pearl Street Piazza, Broadway […]

Ninth Street Earns Its Stripes

By Sarah Goodyear | Jul 5, 2007 | 19 Comments

The debate is over, and as of today the Ninth St. bike lanes are swiftly becoming a reality. Photo: Courtesy Zoe Ryder White

No Exit, Upper West Side Style

By Sarah Goodyear | Jul 5, 2007 | 13 Comments

Over on the New York Times’s City Room blog, Sewell Chan reports on opposition to the July 8 closing of the West 72nd St. exit ramp from the West Side Highway, a move that has been fought in court for years by neighborhood activists. The off-ramp is being demolished at the request of the Extell […]

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