Traffic Calming
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A Year After Eric Ng’s Death, Greenway Hazards Remain Unfixed
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January 4, 2008
Merry Gridlock!
Streetsblog editor Aaron Naparstek and StreetFilms' Nick Whitaker hit the intersection of Atlantic, Flatbush and Fourth Avenues Thursday morning to see what a "Gridlock Alert Day" looks like at one of New York City's most congested intersections.
December 24, 2007
Kheel Plan: Double the Congestion Charge & Make Transit Free
"If you were to design the ultimate system, you would have mass transit be free and charge an enormous amount for cars."
December 18, 2007
Crashstat 2.0 Reveals NYC’S Most Dangerous Intersections
Crashstat shows Fordham Rd. in the Bronx to be one of the most dangerous streets in New York City.
December 4, 2007
The Speed Bump Catapault
Infuriated by reckless idiots speeding down your neighborhood street? Tired of waiting for city government to do something about it? Then you will probably enjoy this German guy's homemade traffic-calming system, inspired, perhaps, by the legendary killer bollards of Manchester, England.
November 28, 2007
DOT Rolls Out Fort Greene Bike Lanes & Traffic-Calming
Via Brownstoner, the Department of Transportation is building out a nice street redesign project in Brooklyn right now as a part of its Ft. Greene Bike Lane & Traffic Calming Project (download a project description here). Formerly a 70-foot-wide one-way street, Carlton Avenue, above, has been converted to two-way operation with five-foot bike lanes on either side. DOT is now building a 20-foot wide planted median in the middle. The Carlton Ave. improvements are similar to recent projects on Park Slope's 9th Street and Vanderbilt Ave. in Prospect Heights.
November 12, 2007
Envisioning an Upper West Side Streets Renaissance
If you're thinking about coming to tonight's Upper West Side workshop with Jan Gehl but you are having trouble picturing what a "Streets Renaissance" might look like, the video above was made for you. It consists of a series of photo simulations produced by New York City Streets Renaissance Creative Director Carly Clark.
November 6, 2007
Ped Struck as Cab Runs Into Storefront at 53rd and Madison
David Dartley sends this in: Perhaps it’s just as well that I only had the crappy camera on my cell phone and you can’t see much detail. A taxi had smashed into a storefront on Madison Ave. just above 53rd St. On the other side of a taxi, there was a person lying face-down on … Continued
November 1, 2007
Tearing Up the Streets, and Pants
A bicyclist in Amsterdam: "Dignified, civilized, unhurried and even elegant..."
November 1, 2007