Recent Streetsblog NYC posts about Pedestrian Infrastructure

T4America: Just Like Plane Crashes, Pedestrian Deaths Are a National Issue

By Tanya Snyder | May 24, 2011 | No Comments

Over the last decade, nearly 48,000 people were killed in the simple act of walking. Many of them were on streets built only to accommodate fast-moving cars, without safe places for people to walk or cross the street. Transportation for America’s new report, “Dangerous by Design,” includes rankings of states and metro areas, but you […]

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Dangerous By Design: How the U.S. Builds Roads That Kill Pedestrians

By Tanya Snyder | May 24, 2011 | No Comments

If you had to cross this road on your walk to work, wouldn’t you rather drive? Millions of Americans live in communities without safe places to walk. And so they either don’t walk, adding to traffic congestion with every trip, or they do walk, risking joining the ranks of the 47,700 pedestrians killed and 688,000 […]

Here’s the Chinatown Intersection Where NIMBYs Killed a Pedestrian Overhaul

By Ben Fried | May 23, 2011 | 18 Comments

Just a reminder: Chatham Square, the intersection where Chinatown NIMBYs have fended off the reclamation of street space for pedestrians, is a huge expanse of asphalt with chaotic traffic patterns and a terrible safety record. According to CrashStat, dozens of pedestrians and cyclists were injured in traffic crashes at Chatham Square from 1995 to 2005, […]

Dov Hikind Threatens to Sue the Safety Off Fort Hamilton Parkway

By Ben Fried | May 17, 2011 | 18 Comments

Assembly Member Dov Hikind is stooping to a new low, even by Albany’s standards, to ensure that traffic keeps on menacing pedestrians to the fullest extent possible on NYC streets. The central Brooklyn rep announced today that he’s trying to force the Department of Transportation to remove pedestrian refuges from Fort Hamilton Parkway, threatening what […]

Eyes on the Street: Midtown Pop-Up Café an Instant Attraction

By Noah Kazis | May 10, 2011 | 19 Comments

Pop-up indeed! A reader sends along this photo of the new pop-up café on 44th Street, just west of Third Avenue. The local community board just approved the café in March, while one local resident, convinced that Midtown is an “inappropriate location” for more public seating, was still fighting to block it last month. Now […]

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Andres Power Helps Lead a Streets Renaissance One Parklet at a Time

By Bryan Goebel | May 9, 2011 | No Comments

City planners often get very little public recognition for the work they do, and can sometimes take the heat on a project if it doesn’t prove politically popular. In the case of San Francisco’s revolutionary Pavement to Parks program, the early resistance to reclaiming public space from cars to create convivial spaces for people has […]

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