Recent Streetsblog NYC posts about Livable Streets

This Holiday Season London’s Streets Are “Absolutely Jammed”

By Aaron Naparstek | Dec 10, 2007 | 26 Comments

London retailers enjoyed a £100 million spending spree as Oxford, Bond and Regents Streets were closed to motor vehicle traffic for a day As New York City government issues its usual series of futile Holiday Season "Gridlock Alerts" (Warning to people stuck in traffic: You are stuck in traffic) while Manhattan shoppers have the life […]

Crashstat 2.0 Reveals NYC’S Most Dangerous Intersections

By Aaron Naparstek | Dec 4, 2007 | 9 Comments

Crashstat shows Fordham Rd. in the Bronx to be one of the most dangerous streets in New York City. For years, Livable Streets advocates have pushed New York City government to make citywide pedestrian and cyclist crash data more accessible to help civic groups and policy makers make more intelligent street design improvement decisions. Rather […]

Houston Street Gets Tree-mendous New Sidewalks

By Jason Varone | Dec 3, 2007 | 15 Comments

We’re just catching up to this piece of good news in The Villager last week: With the Houston St. renovation project on the West Side finally nearing completion, we were pleasantly surprised to discover that the sidewalks between Sixth Ave. and W. Broadway on the street’s south side have doubled in width. And, in […]

Ciclovía: A Moving Experience in Bogotá, Colombia

By Clarence Eckerson Jr. | Dec 3, 2007 | 37 Comments

Recently, I had the opportunity to travel with comrades Karla Quintero of Transportation Alternatives and Streetsblog editor Aaron Naparstek to Bogotá, Colombia to document some of the amazing advances going on in the livable streets movement there. We spent an entire Sunday, from 5am ’til nearly 5pm, riding bicycles around during Ciclovía, […]

The Trafficist: An Interview With Randy Cohen

By Clarence Eckerson Jr. | Nov 27, 2007 | 12 Comments

"It seemed to me that what was significantly undermining the ordinary daily happiness and health and economic life of both me and my fellow New Yorkers was the private car." –– Randy Cohen, "The Ethicist" Open Planning Project Executive Director Mark Gorton recently interviewed New York Times Magazine’s "The Ethicist," Randy Cohen, on the […]

Happy Thanksgiving

By Brad Aaron | Nov 21, 2007 | 10 Comments

We do a lot of criticism here on Streetsblog, so in the spirit of the season we thought we’d reflect on what we in the livable streets universe have to be thankful for. We’ll get the most obvious one out of the way: a Department of Transportation that looks at the city’s streets and […]

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