Recent Streetsblog NYC posts about Livable Streets

Chinatown Business Group Proposes Car-Free Streets

By Aaron Naparstek | | 7 Comments
Bayard Street, Chinatown. Photo: SkyShaper AM New York reports on a "radical" proposal to open two narrow Chinatown streets, Mott and Bayard, to pedestrians, shoppers and diners: Imagine car-free Chinatown streets full of alfresco dining and sidewalk tea shops instead of today’s mess of double-parked cars, delivery trucks and idling buses. That’s the radical proposal […]

Brooklyn’s Fort Greene Fights for Livable Streets

By Aaron Naparstek | | 3 Comments
DOT’s failure to provide a traffic signal or even a simple crosswalk at intersections along DeKalb Avenue disconnects the neighborhood from its bus stops and its park. Brooklyn’s Fort Greene Association is running an exemplary grassroots campaign on local pedestrian safety issues. The neighborhood group has generated more than 500 letters to DOT requesting specific improvements in crosswalk layouts […]

Traffic Continues to Disappear in Paris

By Ethan Kent | | 4 Comments
In 2001, shortly after being elected the Mayor of Paris on a platform promising to "fight, with all the means at my disposal, against the harmful, ever-increasing and unacceptable hegemony of the automobile," Bertrand Delanoë began implementing a series of far-reaching transportation reforms throughout the City of Light. With New York City Department of Transportation Commissioner […]
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