Recent Streetsblog NYC posts about Complete Streets

Discussion of Complete Streets for Fifth and Sixth Avenues Advances at CB 5

By Ben Fried | Oct 30, 2013 | 11 Comments

The sidewalks of Fifth and Sixth Avenues in Midtown are packed — sometimes overflowing — and the streets see some of the highest bike volumes in the city. While this should be one of the world’s premier walking districts, both avenues are designed primarily to move motor vehicles, and injury and fatality rates are high. […]

Meet Streetmix, the Website Where You Can Design Your Own Street

By Stephen Miller | Aug 12, 2013 | 21 Comments

Last fall, Lou Huang was at a community meeting for the initiative to redesign Second Street in San Francisco. Planners handed out paper cutouts, allowing participants to mix and match to create their ideal street. Huang, an urban designer himself, thought the exercise would make for a great website. Now, after months of work beginning at a January […]

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Passing a Law Is the Easy Part: The Challenge of Building Complete Streets

By Angie Schmitt | Jul 11, 2013 | No Comments

If Ontario Street in Cleveland, Ohio, is any indication, a complete streets policy is no guarantee you’ll get a safe place to ride a bike, or even a comfortable place to walk. Ontario is one of those roads designed to simply funnel traffic to and from a highway — and in fact there’s not much […]

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Bipartisan Bill Would Make Complete Streets the National Standard

By Angie Schmitt | Jun 21, 2013 | No Comments

Nearly 500 cities, states, and counties around the United States have enacted complete streets policies, according to Smart Growth America. Now a bipartisan team of lawmakers has introduced legislation to make it a matter of national policy that streets should be designed not only for driving, but for walking, biking, and transit as well. Reps. […]

Upper West Side Residents Fed Up With CB 7 Inaction on Complete Streets

By Stephen Miller | Oct 5, 2012 | 55 Comments

Last night, Manhattan Community Board 7’s transportation committee debated the merits of bringing protected bike lanes and pedestrian refuges to Columbus and Amsterdam Avenues between 59th and 110th Streets. This would be a big gain for the Upper West Side, which currently only has one mile of protected bike lane on Columbus Avenue. After years of […]

DOT: New York City’s Complete Streets Are Built to Last

By Brad Aaron | May 1, 2012 | 8 Comments

The New York City Department of Transportation is nurturing a culture of safer streets that it expects to outlast the administration of Mayor Michael Bloomberg, DOT policy director Jon Orcutt said at last Friday’s Regional Plan Association annual assembly. Speaking at a panel on the politics of multi-modal streets, Orcutt described Bloomberg’s PlaNYC as a “mandate” […]

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