Traffic Calming
Streetsblog Basics
Sneckdowns 2018: Bomb Sneckdowns
Clarence put out the call for sneckdown pictures while winter storm Grayson was still bomb cycloning through the region, and Streetfilms tweeps did not disappoint.
January 5, 2018
St. Louis Calms Traffic With Heavy Concrete Globes
They're cheap. They get the job done. And residents wanted them.
January 4, 2018
Manhattan CB 9 Transpo Chair Insists Car Lanes, Not Safety, Should Come First on Amsterdam Avenue
DOT watered down a standard road diet to appease Community Board 9, but transportation chair Carolyn Thompson still didn't allow a vote on the project.
December 8, 2017
Toronto Neighbors Calm Street Using Only Leaves and Chalk
You’ve heard of the sneckdown — now meet the "leafdown."
December 1, 2017
Seattle’s Playful Traffic Circles Tame Neighborhood Streets
Seattle started installing traffic circles in the early 1970s, and now there are more than 1,200 throughout the city.
September 18, 2017
Tour the Safer 111th Street With the People Who Fought Three Years to Make It Happen
With DOT crews wrapping up work on the 111th Street project, local residents went for a celebratory ride last week. Streetfilms' Clarence Eckerson was there and put together this video tour of the redesigned street and retrospective of the three-year advocacy campaign to make this project happen.
August 23, 2017
DOT Should Invite New Yorkers to Make “Shared Spaces” Happen on Their Blocks
DOT's slow zone program was a standing offer to neighborhood groups: Here's a way to make your streets safer -- tell us that you want it and we'll make it happen. The same basic structure could be used to expand DOT's "shared space" initiative.
August 10, 2017
The State With the Deadliest Traffic in America Admits Its High-Speed Streets Have to Change
Florida is the most dangerous state in the nation for walking and biking. To save lives, the state DOT is planning to lower speed limits and redesign streets to encourage safer driving.
August 8, 2017
NTSB: Speed Kills, and We’re Not Doing Enough to Stop It
In a draft report released earlier this week, the National Transportation Safety Board says excessive speed is a deadly problem in our nation's transportation system -- one that federal and state officials aren't doing enough to address.
July 27, 2017
Yesterday’s Times Square Toll Was Terrible — But So Is a Typical Day of NYC Traffic Violence
Given the high-profile location, the number of victims, and recent instances of people using vehicles to kill for ideology, it's understandable that yesterday's crash drew so much attention. But it's important to recognize that as terrible as the Times Square carnage was for a single incident, the same human toll occurs on a daily basis on NYC streets -- it's just dispersed across the city.
May 19, 2017
