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DOT Unveils Short-Term Ped Fixes Near Brooklyn Traffic Hub
Streets near the Brooklyn Academy of Music and the LIRR's Atlantic Terminal are set to receive a basket of pedestrian improvements that may get underway as soon as November. Speaking last night to the CB2 transportation committee and about a dozen other residents, DOT's Chris Hrones laid out plans for new pedestrian spaces and traffic signals -- including a Barnes Dance (exclusive walk signal) at the intersection of Flatbush and Fourth Avenue.
October 22, 2008
A Citywide Prescription for Livable Streets
Today Transportation Alternatives released "Streets to Live By" [PDF], the report previewed last week in the Observer. It seeks to define what makes a street livable and to synthesize a broad range of data, culled from numerous cities, on the effects of policies that put pedestrians first.
August 7, 2008
Bloomberg Visits the Bronx. Dinowitz Anti-Pricing Rally Fizzles.
Mayor Bloomberg and city agency commissioners answered questions in Riverdale last night.
October 31, 2007
What If Emily Lloyd Were Next at DOT?
If Mayor Bloomberg is indeed looking inside his administration for the next head of DOT, at least some advocates of progressive planning would like him to consider Emily Lloyd, the commissioner of the city's Department of Environmental Protection.
"It would be awesome if we had
someone like her," said Fred Kent, president of the Project for Public Spaces. "She's really a very practical,
thoughtful, holistic person. It's a quality that would be unusual in a
DOT."
January 31, 2007