Recent Streetsblog NYC posts about Complete Streets

Slow Zones, Safer Arterials Win Over CBs in Manhattan and Queens

By Stephen Miller | Jun 20, 2014 | 1 Comment

At its annual outdoor meeting in Diversity Plaza last night, Queens Community Board 3 voted to support two traffic safety projects: a new neighborhood Slow Zone in Jackson Heights and nine additional pedestrian refuge islands on Northern Boulevard, one of the borough’s most dangerous arterial streets. “It was not very contentious at all. It was […]

Imagining a New Atlantic Avenue for de Blasio’s New York

By John Petro | May 1, 2014 | 6 Comments

Atlantic Avenue is one of New York’s most prominent streets, and in most respects, it is completely broken. Stretching more than ten miles, Atlantic cuts through several neighborhoods in Brooklyn and Queens while functioning mainly as an urban highway for private motorists and truckers making their way east, toward the Van Wyck and Long Island, or […]

After CB 4 Committee Signs on, DOT Will Study Safer Fifth and Sixth Avenues

By Stephen Miller | Apr 21, 2014 | 18 Comments

After a unanimous vote of support from Community Board 5, a request for DOT to study protected bike lanes and pedestrian improvements on Fifth and Sixth Avenues in Manhattan got another boost from the CB 4 transportation committee last Wednesday. After the committee’s unanimous 6-0 vote, a DOT representative said the agency intends to begin […]

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A Bill to Make American Streets Safer Surfaces in the Senate

By Angie Schmitt | Feb 7, 2014 | No Comments

Has the moment finally arrived for a national complete streets law? A bill creating incentives for transportation agencies to design safe streets for everyone — pedestrians and cyclists in addition to motorists — is back on the floor of Congress this week. Senators Brian Schatz (D-Hawaii) and Mark Begich (D-Alaska) are sponsoring the Safe Streets Act […]

CB 5 Votes Unanimously for DOT Study of Fifth and Sixth Avenue Redesign

By Stephen Miller | Dec 13, 2013 | 1 Comment

After a unanimous vote by its transportation committee last month, Manhattan Community Board 5 voted unanimously last night for DOT to study a complete streets redesign of Fifth and Sixth Avenues to better accommodate pedestrians, cyclists, and transit riders on two of the busiest avenues in Midtown. The resolution asks NYPD “to more stringently enforce […]

CB 5 Closes in on Requesting Complete Streets Study for 5th and 6th Avenues

By Stephen Miller | Dec 2, 2013 | 39 Comments

The campaign for a more bike- and pedestrian-friendly design on crowded Fifth and Sixth Avenues has crossed its first major milestone, with Community Board 5’s transportation committee advancing a resolution asking DOT for a complete streets study. The resolution, which passed the committee last Monday in a unanimous vote, is set to be taken up by the […]

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