Traffic Calming
Streetsblog Basics
In Istanbul, a Burgeoning Livable Streets Movement
StreetFilms' Elizabeth Press traveled to Istanbul, Turkey recently, and put together this vid of horrendous traffic conditions and initiatives to take back the streets. Featured in the film is Kevser Üstündag, professor of architecture and World Carfree Network advisor, who discusses transit and car-free Sundays.
March 13, 2008
Temporary Chicanes Calm Mr. Eckerson’s Neighborhood
StreetFilms' Clarence Eckerson, Jr., shows how the alternate side dance can slow traffic.
March 11, 2008
Car-Free Washington Place? Not in My Driveway, Say Residents
A rendering in section of NYU's proposal for a pedestrian-only Washington Place, between Washington Square Park and Broadway.
March 7, 2008
Today’s Headlines
Brodsky Proposes 11th Hour ‘Congestion Plan’ (City Room, Sun) With Bloomberg Out, Nader Is the Only Carbon Tax Candidate (Carbon Tax Blog) Oil Touches $103 per Barrel, Boosting Inflation Fears (BBC) Stolen Car Crashes in Bay Ridge, Kills One, Injures Three (NYT, Post) Subway Fare Hike Takes Effect on Sunday (News, AMNY) Ratner Scraps MetroTech … Continued
February 29, 2008
Citizens Propose Cycle Track Greenway Connector in Inwood
Broadway at Dyckman/200th Street and Riverside Drive: a confusing, foreboding free-for-all
February 15, 2008
Pint-Sized Parks Make Safer Streets and Cleaner Rivers
The Greenstreet at 110th and Amsterdam helps keep sewage out of city rivers and features a beefed-up, traffic-calming "blockbuster."
February 14, 2008
City Numbers Show Highest Cyclist Death Toll in Eight Years
Traffic fatalities in 2007 were at their lowest level since the city began keeping records almost 100 years ago, according to data released today by the Bloomberg administration. However, while the number of pedestrian fatalities last year dropped sharply percentage-wise from 2006, down to roughly one death every two-and-a-half days, cyclist fatalities were up, and pedestrian and cyclist deaths combined accounted for 58.6 percent of the 271 total traffic deaths, the highest such percentage in the past eight years.
January 29, 2008
Traffic Calming Animation of the Day: The Chicane
In the shortest, sweetest Streetfilm ever, a 24-second stop-motion animation, Elizabeth Press perfectly illustrates a chicane which is a sequence of bump-outs that force drivers to slow down and drive a more circuitous route along a straight, wide street. An added side benefit, chicanes also create more sidewalk space to be used for benches, tables, plantings and street furniture.
January 17, 2008
Times Square: Too Many People, or Just Too Many Cars?
Why is Times Square so crowded?
January 10, 2008