Recent Streetsblog NYC posts about Public Health

Studies Refute DOT’s Claim That One-Way Avenues Are Safer

By Sarah Goodyear | Mar 22, 2007 | 5 Comments

Prospect Park West at 8th Street, September 16, 2006, 9:45 am. "Higher vehicle speeds are strongly associated with a greater likelihood of crashes involving pedestrians as well as more serious pedestrian injuries." American Journal of Public Health Last Thursday, DOT Deputy Commissioner Michael Primeggia presented a plan to turn a pair of two-way avenues running […]

DOT Makes the Case for Bike Routes Parallel to W. Houston St.

By Aaron Naparstek | Mar 16, 2007 | 29 Comments

Last Tuesday night Ryan Russo and Josh Benson from the Department of Transportation presented a plan to Manhattan’s Community Board 2 to create a safer east-west bike route across Lower Manhattan. With three cyclists having been killed on Houston Street over the last two years and major reconstruction of the street currently underway, members of […]

StreetFilms: One Way is the Wrong Way

By Aaron Naparstek | Mar 14, 2007 | 10 Comments

StreetFilms: One Way is the Wrong Way Running time: 5 minutes 10 seconds In Park Slope, Brooklyn, the Department of Transportation has put forward a plan to convert a pair of two-way neighborhood avenues to one-way operation. DOT says that the plan is designed strictly "to make it safer for pedestrians crossing the street," but […]

Feds Withhold Fatal-Accident Info from Public

By Sarah Goodyear | Mar 8, 2007 | 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 […]

DOT’s Park Slope Plan Requires Community Board Support

By Aaron Naparstek | Mar 7, 2007 | 13 Comments

Crain’s reporter Erik Engquist gets some more information about the Department of Transportation’s plans to convert two Park Slope Avenues into one-way streets. DOT’s press office is now saying: DOT would like to change Sixth and Seventh Avenues to one-way streets to simplify the turning movements at intersections along the Avenues which would enhance safety […]

The Iris Weinshall Legacy: Queens Boulevard

By John Kaehny | Mar 2, 2007 | 6 Comments

"What became clear to me in this discussion was that the engineers were thinking from the motorists’ viewpoint." — Iris Weinshall, New York Newsday, April 29, 2001 A long walk across Queens Blvd. at Grand Ave., Elmhurst, circa March 2001. Photo: Jeff Saltzman Departing Department of Transportation Commissioner Iris Weinshall often cites the pedestrian […]

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