Recent Streetsblog NYC posts about Traffic Calming

Ninth Street Update: Robert’s Rules of Order

By Aaron Naparstek | | 24 Comments
First off, please accept my apologies for continuing to torture you with the intensely parochial drama taking place on Park Slope’s 9th Street. I justify all of this coverage by imagining that this story may be useful for advocates working towards Livable Streets goals in other neighborhoods. For those who are just coming in to […]

Choose Your Own Hells Kitchen

By Aaron Naparstek | | 4 Comments
The Ninth Avenue Renaissance project continues to evolve into the most thorough and impressive community-driven Livable Streets effort currently underway in New York City (the Gansevoort Project runs a close second). Following up on a design workshop facilitated by Project for Public Spaces in January, Ninth Avenue Renaissance has launched a survey that allows you […]

Are “Directional Miles of Bike Lanes” a Good Metric?

By Glenn McAnanama | | 32 Comments
Monday night I attended Manhattan Community Board 8’s pedestrian and cycling safety forum. There was an All-Star cast of panelists. Former DOT Commissioner Sam Schwartz, Manhattan DOT Commissioner Margaret Forgione and Director of Street Management and Safety Ryan Russo, Matthew Bauer of the Madison Ave BID, Traffic Enforcement Agents as well as other transportation experts. There were the usual complaints […]

Is Walking PlaNYC’s Missing Mode?

By Brad Aaron | | 3 Comments
  "Transportation has always been the key to unlocking New York’s potential." So begins the PlaNYC chapter on transportation, which for 26 pages lays out how the city can better meet the mobility needs of its existing population, plus an expected additional one million new residents, by 2030. While the document offers tantalizing details on […]

Decongestion in Cities Around the World

By Jason Varone | | 1 Comment
GOOD Magazine profiles five innovations in urban transportation that you don’t find in America, yet. Josh Jackson reports: Cities around the world are leaps and bounds ahead of America when it comes to issues of urban transit. Though this country is woefully lagging, it’s a rare example of when falling behind actually works in your […]

CB2 Signs Off On Prince-Bleecker Bike Lanes

By Brad Aaron | | 2 Comments
  After over an hour of public comment, and another hour of deliberation, Community Board 2 last night voted to recommend the DOT proceed with bike lanes parallel to Houston Street, to be located primarily on Prince and Bleecker. The resolution crafted last week by CB2’s Traffic & Transportation Committee — defining the new bike […]
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