Recent Streetsblog NYC posts about One-Way Streets

Queens CB 6 Eager for Safety Fixes (Just Don’t Touch Their Parking)

By Noah Kazis | Jan 20, 2010 | 2 Comments

The Rego Park senior focus area, which includes several blocks of Queens Boulevard, is slated for pedestrian improvements. Click here to enlarge. Image: NYCDOT. As we’ve recently seen in Astoria, DOT doesn’t always bring innovative traffic calming tools to streets that need them. What happens when they do? At a community board meeting in Rego […]

NYPD Failing to Keep Kids Safe From Traffic at Bronx School

By Noah Kazis | Jan 8, 2010 | No Comments

The frequently-ignored "One Way" sign at Briggs Avenue and East Moshulu Parkway. Image: NY1 A report from NY1’s Susan Jhun today describes the dangerous conditions at an intersection right next to P.S. 8 in the Norwood neighborhood of the Bronx, where parents and students constantly contend with cars darting the wrong way down the block. […]

Petition: Tell DOT to Reverse the Curse on Brooklyn Speedways

By Ben Fried | Mar 25, 2009 | 12 Comments

How fast do cars travel on Prospect Park West? Criminally fast. All the time. Members of Park Slope Neighbors clocked cars routinely exceeding the 30 mph speed limit — including one sociopath racing at 65 mph — during a ten-minute stretch earlier this month. Prospect Park West and Eighth Avenue form a one-way pair funneling […]

To Obey, Or Not to Obey

By Alex Marshall | Oct 16, 2007 | 132 Comments

Not getting flattened by a 50,000 pound "big rig" is a good reason to stop at a red light if you’re on a bicycle. But how about less skin-saving reasons? Are there in fact, good reasons to ignore traffic regulations when you can, because after all, they are really meant just for cars? It’s a […]

No Love for One-Way Proposal in Jackson Heights

By Sarah Goodyear | Jun 29, 2007 | 7 Comments

Congestion in Jackson Heights: The DOT needs some new ideas The Queens Times-Ledger reports on the "cool reception" given last week by Queens Community Board 3 and City Council Member Hiram Monserrate to the DOT’s proposal for a one-way pair of streets on 35th and 37th avenues. What’s most disappointing about the debate so far […]

LA.Streetsblog: The Joy of Poor Circulation

By Jason Varone | May 30, 2007 | 6 Comments

Every week, KCRW radio’s Marc Porter Zasada sets out to fathom Los Angeles on his show The Urban Man. This week he talks about neighborhoods, how fragile they are and how easily they can be lost to bad traffic engineering: On Monday you walked around the block for coffee and croissants, down where narrow streets […]