Recent Streetsblog NYC posts about Livable Streets

Accidents Halved As Street is Stripped of ‘Safety’ Features

By Aaron Naparstek | Jul 25, 2007 | 13 Comments

The results are in on one of urban designer and "shared space" proponent Ben Hamilton-Baillie’s London projects. Kensington High Street is twice as safe now that all of the traffic engineering "safety features" are gone. The Standard reports: ACCIDENT levels have almost halved in a London street where "safety" equipment such as guard rails, white […]

Welcome to Davis, California: A Bicycle Friendly Town

By Aaron Naparstek | Jul 25, 2007 | 3 Comments

StreetFilms’ Clarence Eckerson has been in Davis, California the last few days, filming one of the premier bicycling cities in the United States. Clarence has a preliminary report and some photos up on the web site with a StreetFilm yet to come. It’s worth a quick look.

Microbuses and Bike Sharing: The New Parisian Street Scene

By Aaron Naparstek | Jul 24, 2007 | 11 Comments

Luc Nadal of the Institute for Transportation Development Policy sends along these photos showing some of the exciting new things happening on Parisian streets these days. We’ve been hearing a lot about Velib, Paris’s new public bike-sharing program. But that is just one of many new transportation and public space programs initiated by Mayor Bertrand […]

Congestion Pricing: What’s the Deal?

By John Kaehny | Jul 20, 2007 | 32 Comments

Nobody knows whether the convoluted and difficult congestion pricing "deal" reached by political leaders yesterday will actually result in anything. The deal is complex even by Albany standards. A few things, however, are clear: Mayor Bloomberg does not have a "green light" to move forward with congestion pricing, nor has he been granted any new […]

Kids Demand Respect in the Streets of Brooklyn

By Sarah Goodyear | Jul 20, 2007 | 5 Comments

A rendering of a mural proposed for Butler St. and Third Ave., one block from the Brooklyn intersection where a 4-year-old boy was killed by the driver of a Hummer in February. "A lot of drivers are driving recklessly and not seeing people as people," said 18-year-old Mike. He was one of a group of […]

CB8 Shoots Down Upper East Side Crosstown Bike Route Plan

By Aaron Naparstek | Jul 19, 2007 | 38 Comments

On Monday, July 9 the transportation committee of Community Board 8 on Manhattan’s Upper East Side took up the issues of congestion pricing and a new pair of crosstown bike lanes. Congestion pricing, it turns out, was the evening’s non-controversial issue. Even after a series of impassioned speeches against Mayor Bloomberg’s traffic reduction plan the […]

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