Recent Streetsblog NYC posts about Livable Streets

Report from Atlanta: Don’t Walk This Way

By Sarah Goodyear | | 23 Comments
I can’t get behind Prevention Magazine’s ranking of New York as 39th among the nation’s most walkable cities. But after spending three days in Atlanta for a conference recently, I have no problem understanding why it rates 86th. Stuck, like most of the city’s legions of conventioneers, in the area around the Peachtree Center, I […]

Feds Withhold Fatal-Accident Info from Public

By Sarah Goodyear | | 5 Comments
An article in the LA Times (reg required) details how the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration has systematically withheld information on fatal accidents from the public, even going so far as to deny Freedom of Information Act requests from researchers. R.A. Whitworth, whose Maryland-based company conducts highway safety research for attorneys, insurance companies and even […]

StreetFilms: “Something Has to Be Done”

By Sarah Goodyear | | No Comments
Emergency Pedestrian Safety RallyRunning time: 4 minutes 38 seconds  Here are some highlights from Sunday’s rally for pedestrian safety. In the words of Audrey Anderson, whose 14-year-old son, Andre, was killed by an SUV while he was riding his bike: "Drivers who kill and are not apparently drunk walk away from crash sites as free […]

Why Is DOT Reorganizing Park Slope Traffic? Because.

By Aaron Naparstek | | 7 Comments
Last Wednesday we learned about the Department of Transportation’s plan for a major reorganization of traffic flow through Park Slope, Brooklyn. In Streetsblog’s comments section, Andy Wiley-Schwartz of Project for Public Spaces asked: What problems are DOT’s traffic engineers trying to solve with this particular set of solutions? Or, to put it another way: What […]

Commissioner Weinshall Agrees: Two-Way Streets Calm Traffic

By Aaron Naparstek | | No Comments
While Michael Primeggia, DOT’s Deputy Commissioner for Traffic Operations is trying to sell one-way mini-highways through Park Slope as a pedestrian safety improvement, his boss, DOT Commissioner Iris Weinshall, is hawking the exact opposite. On Thursday, March 1, at the City Council Transportation Committee oversight hearing on the Mayor’s Long-Term Planning initiative, Weinshall touted two-way […]
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