Summer Streets Headlines
Streetsblog is running our weekend news wrap-up in two sections this morning. This section is devoted to stories about Saturday’s inaugural Summer Streets event. Links to non-Summer Streets coverage are here. The following headlines are titled as they appeared in source publications.
Prior to the event:
- Will Car-Free ‘Summer Streets’ Work? (City Room)
- Streets Built to Roam for a Day (News)
- ‘Ribbon of Recreation’ to Wind Through NYC Streets (WCBS TV)
- Summer Streets [Interview with Bloomberg and Sadik-Khan] (Fox 5)
- Car-Free Saturdays Begin This Weekend (Downtown Express)
- City Is Set to Enjoy a Car-Free Park Ave (Metro)
- Businesses Brace for Summer Streets (WNYC)
- ‘Summer Streets’ for the Feet in New York (Trib)
After the event:
- No Traffic on a Saturday? Well, No Cars, Anyway (NYT)
- NYC Experiments With Car-Free Urban Playground (AP)
- Takin’ It to the (No-Traffic) Streets (News)
- Gentlemen, Stop Your Engines (Voice)
- A Car-Free Day (Post)
- Car-Free Zone Biz Was Feast, Famine (Post)
- 7 Miles of Manhattan Streets Go Car-Free (WNYC)
A sampling from the blogosphere:
- Successful Start to Summer Streets Saturdays (Gothamist)
- Summer Streets a Success, Possibly Also Fun (Cap’n Transit)
- Summer Streets — A NYC Bike Safari (VentriloquismNYC)
- Summers Streets a Blast and NYC an Inspiration (Philadelphia Bicycle News)
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