Recent Streetsblog NYC posts about Traffic Calming

The Seed of a Revolution in Red Hook

By Ethan Kent | Feb 12, 2007 | 6 Comments

How can we get drivers to respect the communities they are driving though? How can we make traffic slow down if we can’t change the design of the street or the timing of the lights? How can a community reclaim its neighborhood streets? For a few short hours last weekend, Red Hook, Brooklyn, had an […]

DOT: “Our Job is to Keep Traffic Moving, Not Pedestrian Safety”

By Aaron Naparstek | Feb 8, 2007 | 12 Comments

Scribner Avenue, New Brighton, Staten Island, formerly two- and now one-way, looking up the hill toward Bismarck Avenue from Westervelt Avenue Streetsblog reader Dan Icolari became curious about changes that were being made on his neighborhood streets in Staten Island. In researching the issue he found that progressive policy statements coming out of Department of […]

Calming Traffic in Chinatown

By Aaron Donovan | Feb 1, 2007 | 20 Comments

With all the talk about high level personnel changes at the DOT, let’s take it back to the streets for a minute, shall we? As we have already noted, Chinatown has gotten a buffered bike lane on Grand Street, which is fantastic, and would be even more fantastic if it wasn’t treated as a car parking lane. […]

New Traffic Island Makes News, Takes a Beating

By Aaron Donovan | Jan 10, 2007 | 20 Comments

Here’s the scene at the corner of Grand Street and the F.D.R. Drive, where motorists exiting the expressway turn 90 degrees onto the local street. The DOT recently installed this modest pedestrian refuge island, which sparked an outcry from area residents, who complained that the island was hard to see. This island is great. It slows the cars making […]

Setting the Agenda on Pedestrian Safety

By Aaron Donovan | Dec 31, 2006 | 29 Comments

On the evening of Saturday, January 10, 2004, Peter Hornbeck, 26, stepped off the curb at Park Avenue and 96th Street and was struck by a Chevy Suburban traveling 74 miles per hour. The SUV, being driven by a 26-year-old man from Queens who had had his license revoked years earlier, dragged Hornbeck for a block as Hornbeck’s friends cried out in […]

Safe Routes to Schools: Yesterday’s Press Event

By Aaron Naparstek | Dec 1, 2006 | 3 Comments

Mayor Bloomberg and a P.S. 21 student at yesterday’s Safe Routes to Schools announcement in the Bronx. The advocacy work that helped make this event happen: Paper and Balloons Don’t Save Children’s Lives (PDF file), an article from Transportation Alternatives Magazine. And here’s a Safe Routes to Schools timeline.

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