Recent Streetsblog NYC posts about Traffic Calming

No Love for One-Way Proposal in Jackson Heights

By Sarah Goodyear | Jun 29, 2007 | 7 Comments

Congestion in Jackson Heights: The DOT needs some new ideas The Queens Times-Ledger reports on the "cool reception" given last week by Queens Community Board 3 and City Council Member Hiram Monserrate to the DOT’s proposal for a one-way pair of streets on 35th and 37th avenues. What’s most disappointing about the debate so far […]

Auto Insurer Creates Traffic Mayhem With Gasoline Give-Away

By Jason Varone | Jun 25, 2007 | 4 Comments

Sean Roche of Newton Streets and Sidewalks sends along a good one: Allstate found that that drivers in Flint and Warren, Michigan were some of the "most improved" when it came to reducing the number of car crashes. The insurance company rewarded motorists in those towns with ten free gallons of gas. What was the […]

Call for Ped Safety Measures on Third and Fourth Avenues

By Sarah Goodyear | Jun 11, 2007 | 1 Comment

A third-grader was hit on her way to school here two weeks ago. You have to move fast to beat the turning traffic on Fourth Avenue. DOT Deputy Commissioner for Brooklyn Dalila Hall faced some tough questioning from members of the public at a meeting on pedestrian safety on Third and Fourth avenues in Brooklyn […]

A Portland Neighborhood Reclaims its Streets

By Aaron Naparstek | May 25, 2007 | 2 Comments

Streetfilms‘ Clarence Eckerson was in Portland recently where he caught up with a neighborhood "Intersection Repair" project. New York City will experience a similar community-driven street reclamation project later this summer. A number of groups will be coming out to repair the Brooklyn intersection where a 4-year-old boy was run over and killed by the […]

CB6 Committee Unanimously Approves 9th St. Project

By Aaron Naparstek | May 18, 2007 | 12 Comments

The transportation committee of Brooklyn Community Board 6, of which I’m a member, voted unanimously last night to approve DOT’s traffic calming and bike lane plan for Park Slope’s 9th Street. The approval came with requests that DOT build a bike lane along Prospect Park West, undertake a curbside management study aimed at alleviating double-parking […]

Time to Expand DOT’s Toolbox Beyond Signs and Signals?

By Aaron Naparstek | May 17, 2007 | 15 Comments

A Streetsblog reader reports from Lower Manhattan: DOT is removing a series of stop signs from a five block street along the river in Battery Park City for reasons explained below. The street is lined on one side by a heavily-used waterfront park, and the other by residential apartment buildings and entrances to other parks. […]

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