Urban Design
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Bus Bulbs Are Blooming
According to a more-than-a-little-snarky post on Curbed, the first of Lower Broadway's hotly anticipated bus bulbs has been constructed on Broadway south of Spring Street.
April 18, 2007
DOT Called Out for Lacking Clear Ped Safety Plan
While acknowledging that casualties have dropped overall in recent years, safety advocates and government officials are calling on the DOT to establish measurable benchmarks for further reducing pedestrian injuries and deaths in the city, and want the agency to get moving on relatively minor improvements that would help meet those goals.
April 13, 2007
Who Opposes A Plan for Safer, More Livable Streets and Why?
Park Slope's 9th Street corridor, with Prospect Park on one end and the Battery Tunnel on the other, has long been known as one of the most dangerous streets in the neighborhood when it comes to car crashes.
April 11, 2007
The Plan: Making Brooklyn’s 9th Street Safer for Everyone
Below is a sketch of DOT's plan for 9th Street in Park Slope, Brooklyn. We think it's a great plan deserving of support. The new configuration narrows a notoriously dangerous four lane road down to two travel lanes and adds a median with left-turn bays and a pair of bike lanes with three-foot buffers.
April 10, 2007
Take a Minute to Fax in Your Support for DOT’s 9th Street Plan
Crash counts show that 9th Street is one of the most dangerous streets in Park Slope, Brooklyn.
April 10, 2007
City Pitches in for Yankee Stadium Parking
What could be worse than replacing neighborhood parks with private parking decks, built with the specific intent of increasing car trips by the tens of thousands through a community already suffering from so much disease-causing pollution that its nickname is "Asthma Alley"?
April 9, 2007
Study: Sidewalks Can’t Handle Transit Traffic
As New York ponders - and ducks - a solution to gridlocked streets in the wake of the mayor's 2030 plan, transportation planners across the Hudson are contemplating a marked increase in congestion on the city's already overburdened sidewalks.
April 4, 2007
Sneak Peek at DOT’s Plan for Park Slope’s 9th Street
Note: Below is the most recent update of DOT's 9th Street plan.
March 29, 2007