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Right now it's a dream, but this is what a school street could look like. New Yorkers need to support our school streets. Graphic: WXY Studio

Opinion: To Avoid a COVID Resurgence, Mayor de Blasio Must Create Open Streets for Schools

By Ellen McDermott and Kelly Verel | Sep 9, 2021 | No Comments

Taking our schools outdoors should not be a revolutionary idea, after our year-long dining experiment. Yet the city has been sluggish at best about moving schools into outdoor space, let alone streets.

Transportation Alternatives Wants Mayoral Candidates To Commit to 25% More Open Space

By Julianne Cuba | Mar 1, 2021 | No Comments

Vision Zero? How about Vision 25 by 25?

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LOS and Travel Projections: The Wrong Tools for Planning Our Streets

By Gary Toth | Feb 7, 2012 | No Comments

Gary Toth is director of transportation initiatives at Project for Public Spaces. This post first appeared on PPS’s Placemaking Blog. Would you use a rototiller to get rid of weeds in a flowerbed? Of course not. You might solve your immediate goal of uprooting the weeds — but oh, my, the collateral damage that you […]

Eight Ways State DOT Chief Joan McDonald Can Make New York Better

By Gary Toth | Jan 18, 2011 | 18 Comments

“By building more and more roads, we have made it almost impossible to solve our transportation problems” – Allen Biehler, Secretary, Pennsylvania DOT and Chair, AASHTO Standing Committee on Highways Every state Department of Transportation (DOT) is led by a chief executive. In some states, they’re called the “secretary.” In others, the “director.” In New […]

The New Gansevoort: Pedestrian Godsend, Nightclubber Nuisance

By Ben Fried | Jan 15, 2009 | 26 Comments

A DOT team received a mix of gratitude and derision at Tuesday’s public forum about recent pedestrian improvements in the Meatpacking District, which attracted an audience of about 100 people to the Housing Works offices on West 13th Street. It was an interesting window onto the competing interests now vying to shape what has been, […]

Streetfilms: Interview With the Transportation Engineer

By Ben Fried | Sep 26, 2008 | 5 Comments

In his storied career at New Jersey DOT, Gary Toth played an indispensable role changing the culture of the agency, promoting a place-based ethic instead of the auto-centric transportation planning dogma. Today Toth heads transportation initiatives at Project for Public Spaces, where he has written "A Citizen’s Guide to Better Streets." The book, which will […]

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