Recent Streetsblog NYC posts about Livable Streets

Two Ways to Tell the Story of Congestion Pricing

By Ben Fried | Mar 20, 2008 | 9 Comments

This Monday the Washington Post ran a long feature on page A1, "Letting the Market Drive Transportation," about the Bush administration’s attempts to shift financing for roads from the gas tax to user fees, and starve transit in the process. The cast of characters includes a pair of conservative ideologues, Tyler Duvall and D.J. Gribbin, […]

Envisioning a More Livable Columbus Avenue

By Ben Fried | Mar 18, 2008 | 8 Comments

As a candidate for a livable streets makeover, Columbus Avenue is a no-brainer. A block from Central Park, it is home to the American Museum of Natural History and sports a string of active ground floor businesses, but the street itself is a classically car-oriented corridor: three moving lanes sandwiched between two parking lanes. The […]

DC to Devote Parking Fees to Livable Streets

By John Kaehny | Mar 14, 2008 | 3 Comments

In a first for a big east coast city, Washington, DC, is putting the ideas of celebrated parking reformer Don Shoup to work. Spurred by concerns over game day traffic surges caused by the opening of a new baseball stadium, the city council recently created two performance parking pilot project zones. The most important […]

Could “Open Sundays” Help Solve Prince Problems?

By Brad Aaron | Mar 13, 2008 | 10 Comments

| View | Upload your own Here is the slide show outlining the DOT proposal to open Prince Street to pedestrians on summer Sundays. As we reported yesterday, the plan isn’t popular with some SoHo residents, who say it will turn Prince into another Mulberry Street. But Community Board 2’s Ian Dutton, a supporter of […]

DOT Details Prince Street “Open Sundays” Project

By Brad Aaron | Mar 12, 2008 | 24 Comments

On weekends, 200 vehicles and 4,500 pedestrians per hour make their way down Prince Street, yet the vast majority of the street’s public space is given over to motor vehicle traffic and parking. Community Board 2’s Traffic & Transportation Committee heard specifics last night on a DOT pilot project that would open a segment of […]

Mime Threat Overshadows Car-Free Prince Street Proposal

By Aaron Naparstek | Mar 7, 2008 | 81 Comments

If you read the comments on the previous post, then you know something interesting is in the works for Prince Street. Next Tuesday, Community Board 2’s Transportation Committee will consider a proposal to turn a six-block stretch of Prince Street, from Lafayette to West Broadway, into a car-free zone on Sundays from 11am to 6pm. […]

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