Recent Streetsblog NYC posts about Transportation Policy

DOT’s Park Slope Plan Requires Community Board Support

By Aaron Naparstek | Mar 7, 2007 | 13 Comments

Crain’s reporter Erik Engquist gets some more information about the Department of Transportation’s plans to convert two Park Slope Avenues into one-way streets. DOT’s press office is now saying: DOT would like to change Sixth and Seventh Avenues to one-way streets to simplify the turning movements at intersections along the Avenues which would enhance safety […]

StreetFilms: “Something Has to Be Done”

By Sarah Goodyear | Mar 6, 2007 | No Comments

Emergency Pedestrian Safety RallyRunning time: 4 minutes 38 seconds Here are some highlights from Sunday’s rally for pedestrian safety. In the words of Audrey Anderson, whose 14-year-old son, Andre, was killed by an SUV while he was riding his bike: "Drivers who kill and are not apparently drunk walk away from crash sites as free […]

Why Is DOT Reorganizing Park Slope Traffic? Because.

By Aaron Naparstek | Mar 5, 2007 | 7 Comments

Last Wednesday we learned about the Department of Transportation’s plan for a major reorganization of traffic flow through Park Slope, Brooklyn. In Streetsblog’s comments section, Andy Wiley-Schwartz of Project for Public Spaces asked: What problems are DOT’s traffic engineers trying to solve with this particular set of solutions? Or, to put it another way: What […]

Commissioner Weinshall Agrees: Two-Way Streets Calm Traffic

By Aaron Naparstek | Mar 5, 2007 | No Comments

While Michael Primeggia, DOT’s Deputy Commissioner for Traffic Operations is trying to sell one-way mini-highways through Park Slope as a pedestrian safety improvement, his boss, DOT Commissioner Iris Weinshall, is hawking the exact opposite. On Thursday, March 1, at the City Council Transportation Committee oversight hearing on the Mayor’s Long-Term Planning initiative, Weinshall touted two-way […]

Old Gray Lady Gets on the Bandwagon

By Sarah Goodyear | Mar 5, 2007 | 5 Comments

The New York Times came out advocating for progressive transportation policies in its Sunday City section editorial, saying that the departure of DOT Commissioner Iris Weinshall presents "a great opportunity to take bold action on a vexing quality of life and health issue: traffic congestion." After giving Weinshall props for her actions on the Queens […]

The Iris Weinshall Legacy: Queens Boulevard

By John Kaehny | Mar 2, 2007 | 6 Comments

"What became clear to me in this discussion was that the engineers were thinking from the motorists’ viewpoint." — Iris Weinshall, New York Newsday, April 29, 2001 A long walk across Queens Blvd. at Grand Ave., Elmhurst, circa March 2001. Photo: Jeff Saltzman Departing Department of Transportation Commissioner Iris Weinshall often cites the pedestrian […]

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