Recent Streetsblog NYC posts about London

The Heart of London Adopts 20 MPH Speed Limit

By Brad Aaron | Sep 13, 2013 | 11 Comments

The City of London, the square mile in the heart of Greater London that is home to the city’s finance sector, is resetting the speed limit to 20 miles per hour on all streets. In New York, this would be the equivalent of, say, lowering the speed limit in Manhattan south of the Brooklyn Bridge […]

London Cycling Group Proposes a Safer Urban Truck

By Brad Aaron | Mar 21, 2013 | 8 Comments

In the last few weeks, truck drivers have taken the lives of at least two NYC pedestrians: a 6-year-old child and a 60-year-old woman. Though the physics of the crashes were different — one driver was turning, the other accelerating into a crosswalk — in both cases the driver was said to have hit a […]

London Mayor Unveils Ambitious, $1.3 Billion Bike Plan

By Stephen Miller | Mar 8, 2013 | 8 Comments

In some ways, London and New York have each leapfrogged the other when it comes to bike policy in the past few years. London’s bike-share program launched back in 2010, but its bike lanes remain largely sub-standard, with little in the way of physical protection. Here in New York, the bike lanes are gradually forming […]

Lessons From London After 10 Years of the Congestion Charge

By Charles Komanoff | Feb 15, 2013 | 16 Comments

A Republican member of Congress told me last week that he recently was in London for the first time in a long while. “Traveling was so much better,” he said. “You can actually get around. That traffic-charging system they’ve got seems to be doing a lot of good.” London’s system — known formally as congestion […]

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