Recent Streetsblog NYC posts about Car-Free Streets

Montreal’s Car-Free Street Network Gets Bigger All the Time

By Angie Schmitt | Jan 23, 2017 | No Comments

Every year, Montreal transforms more of its streets into public spaces where people can rub shoulders with their neighbors without worrying about car traffic. Block by block, experiment by experiment, the city's pedestrian streets are growing.

Gale Brewer Endorses TA’s 14th Street PeopleWay Campaign

By David Meyer | Aug 30, 2016 | 2 Comments

Manhattan Borough President Gale Brewer wants to prioritize buses, bikes, and pedestrians on Manhattan’s 14th Street when the L train shuts down for 18 months beginning in January 2019. Brewer signed onto Transportation Alternatives’ “PeopleWay” campaign yesterday after meeting with campaign organizers. “To get through 18 months without the L train, we’ll need to move people along 14th […]

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Touring Copenhagen’s Car-Free Bridges

By Clarence Eckerson Jr. | Aug 12, 2016 | No Comments

One of the things that makes Copenhagen great is the city is continually finding ways to make biking and walking better — like building car-free bridges. Bicycle Program Manager Marie Kastrup was very kind to take me on a tour of some of the bike and pedestrian bridges Copenhagen has constructed in the last decade. […]

Bronx CB 8 Delays Vote on Play Street Where Driver Killed 8-Year-Old

By Brad Aaron | Aug 10, 2016 | 5 Comments

Bronx Community Board 8 delayed a decision on whether to approve a play street application from the school where a motorist killed 8-year-old Rylee Ramos, when people complained that a play street at a different school would interfere with their driving. The Riverdale Press reports that the 50th Precinct has joined P.S. 307, Horace Mann School, and St. Margaret’s […]

Summer Streets 2016 Gets Started Tomorrow

By Brad Aaron | Aug 5, 2016 | 4 Comments

If you’re old enough to remember when Summer Streets — which begins tomorrow — was a wild new idea, it probably won’t surprise you that this isn’t the first year we’ve pointed out that Summer Streets has become a completely normal thing. For some time now, New Yorkers have wondered when DOT would improve on the city’s premier car-free event, and next […]

Maloney: Use L Train Shutdown to “Upgrade Our Bus Service”

By David Meyer | Jun 30, 2016 | 5 Comments

New York City should use the impending L train shutdown to make long-term improvements to bus service, U.S. Representative Carolyn Maloney said at a public forum last night. To repair the Sandy-damaged L train tunnel under the East River, the MTA will either close the subway line west of Williamsburg entirely for 18 months or run it at 20 percent […]

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