Recent Streetsblog NYC posts about Complete Streets

Seniors Survey Manhattan’s Deadliest Street

By Noah Kazis | Jan 7, 2010 | 5 Comments

Hours after the Tri-State Transportation Campaign released a report yesterday identifying New York’s deadliest roads, 13 AARP volunteers surveyed part of Third Avenue in an effort to make walking in New York safer. AARP volunteer Marlene Ramsey tracks safety conditions on Third Avenue. Photo: Noah Kazis. The surveyors braved the January cold to spend their […]

CNU Summit to Focus on Reforming Transportation, Planning Principles

By Matthew Roth | Oct 14, 2009 | 5 Comments

The Congress for the New Urbanism will meet in Portland, Oregon, in early November for the annual Project for Transportation Reform, a summit to further define emerging policies that embrace entire urban transportation networks, rather than disjointed transportation segments, and that seek to balance modal splits and reduce overall vehicular miles traveled (VMT). Summit attendees […]

Obama’s Highways Chief: Wishy-Washy on Emissions?

By Elana Schor | Jun 2, 2009 | 4 Comments

Victor Mendez, nominated by the White House to lead the Federal Highway Administration (FHWA), spent more than an hour this morning with the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee — but the most illuminating moment in the hearing came as the clock was running down. FHWA nominee Victor Mendez testified before the Senate today. (Photo: […]

Flashback: Obama Once Led Push for ‘Complete Streets’

By Elana Schor | May 28, 2009 | 6 Comments

With Congress out of town on its Memorial Day break, the nation’s capital is a quiet place to be — but all of that will change next week, as the appearance of the House transportation bill is expected to kick off an intense battle to reshape federal policy on transit, bikes, roads and bridges. Before […]

Congressional Climate Bill Includes ‘Complete Streets’ But Not CLEAN TEA

By Elana Schor | May 15, 2009 | 3 Comments

Henry Waxman (D-CA), chairman of the House Energy and Commerce Committee, has just struck a deal on his long-awaited climate change bill — and though the agreement makes a number of concessions to polluters, it also takes a step forward towards popularizing the cause of "complete streets". House Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Henry Waxman […]

National Complete Streets Bill Back in Play

By Ben Fried | Mar 12, 2009 | 3 Comments

There’s a new Complete Streets Act pending in both chambers of Congress, and it needs co-sponsors. The bill would require federally-funded road projects to meet the needs of pedestrians, cyclists, and transit riders — not just drivers. To ask your representatives to sign on as co-sponsors, head over to Transportation for America’s e-campaign. Sacramento representative […]