Recent Streetsblog NYC posts about Traffic Calming

Why Wasn’t Traffic-Calming Built on Third Avenue?

By Aaron Naparstek | | 2 Comments
DOT has gotten back to me with some answers.   As Streetsblog reported Monday, New York City’s Department of Transportation failed to follow through on a 2004 pledge to build potentially life-saving pedestrian safety improvements along the Third Avenue corridor where a 4-year-old boy was run over and killed last Tuesday. Streetsblog asked DOT why […]

DOT Pledged Ped Safety Fixes by 2006 on Deadly Third Ave

By Aaron Naparstek | | 16 Comments
New York City’s Department of Transportation failed to follow through on a 2004 pledge to build potentially life-saving pedestrian safety improvements along the Third Avenue corridor where a 4-year-old boy was run over and killed last Tuesday. DOT’s announcement of $4 million in funding for the installation of "median extensions, neckdowns and other traffic-calming" measures […]

Plan Urged Safety Measures for Intersection Where Boy Died

By Aaron Naparstek | | 16 Comments
The May 2003 final report of the Downtown Brooklyn Traffic Calming Project recommended pedestrian safety measures designed specifically to prevent the kind of collision that killed a four-year-old boy in the Gowanus section of Brooklyn on Tuesday afternoon.  A graphic from the Downtown Brooklyn Traffic Calming Project final plan showing pedestrian safety recommendations for Third […]

NYC Pedestrian Fatalities Up in 2006?

By Aaron Naparstek | | 10 Comments
In the wake of yet another gruesome killing of a pedestrian walking in the crosswalk with the right-of-way — this time, a 4-year-old boy run over by a guy driving a Hummer — Transportation Alternatives is arguing that these kinds of deaths can be prevented or, at least, made less likely, with the following five […]

The Case of the Disappearing Sharrows

By Biker H | | 5 Comments
  Less than three months after they appeared on Seventh Avenue in Times Square, some of New York City’s first sharrows are well on their way to disappearing. And so you have to wonder: Can the city’s commitment to 200 miles of new bike lanes in three years be meaningful if this is their condition […]
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