Recent Streetsblog NYC posts about Pedestrian Infrastructure

Eyes on the Street: Bigger Sidewalk, Shorter Crossing at Riverside and 116th

By Brad Aaron | Jun 17, 2016 | 14 Comments

A tipster sent this photo of the sidewalk expansion underway at the corner of Riverside Drive and W. 116th Street in Manhattan. (It’s one of the elements in a DOT safety plan for Riverside that survived after the agency watered down the project at the behest of Community Board 9.) Once the concrete is poured, the distance to walk […]

To Improve Walking and Biking Across the Harlem River, DOT’s Thinking Big

By David Meyer | May 17, 2016 | 11 Comments

There are 16 bridges linking Manhattan and the Bronx, but if you walk or bike between the boroughs, safe, convenient routes are still scarce. That could change if DOT follows through on ideas the agency released this spring to improve walking and biking access over the Harlem River bridges [PDF]. Currently, 13 of the 16 bridges along the […]

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Ride the New Pulaski Bridge Bikeway With Streetfilms

By Clarence Eckerson Jr. | Apr 29, 2016 | No Comments

Today was a milestone for traveling between Brooklyn and Queens: NYC DOT opened the Pulaski Bridge bike path to lots of cheers with a celebratory ride. Before today, the Pulaski Bridge walking and biking path was dangerously congested, with more pedestrians and cyclists crammed on to its narrow right-of-way every year. The solution? Convert one lane of the roadway to a two-way […]

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Fast Changes to City Streets: A 9-Step Guide for Creative Bureaucrats

By Michael Andersen | Mar 28, 2016 | No Comments

Michael Andersen blogs for The Green Lane Project, a PeopleForBikes program that helps U.S. cities build better bike lanes to create low-stress streets. For most of the 20th century, cities answered transportation problems by adding more pavement. More freeways. More lanes. More parking lots. More things that couldn’t be reversed or revised. So it made […]

DOT’s Meeker Ave Safety Project Gets — You Guessed It — Meeker

By David Meyer | Feb 24, 2016 | 15 Comments

DOT has watered down its safety plan for the area around Meeker, Union, and Metropolitan avenues. And for the second time in as many meetings, Brooklyn Community Board 1’s transportation committee could not make quorum last night to vote on the project. DOT’s plan calls for sidewalk extensions and crosswalks at several intersections where Meeker, Union, and […]

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Traffic Engineers Still Rely on a Flawed 1970s Study to Reject Crosswalks

By Angie Schmitt | Feb 12, 2016 | No Comments

When St. Louis decided not to maintain colorful new crosswalks that residents had painted, the city’s pedestrian coordinator cited federal guidance. A 2011 FHWA memo warns that colorful designs could “create a false sense of security” for pedestrians and motorists. That may sound like unremarkable bureaucrat-speak, but the phrase “false sense of security” is actually a cornerstone of American engineering guidance […]

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