Recent Streetsblog NYC posts about Quality of Life

DOT Details Prince Street “Open Sundays” Project

By Brad Aaron | Mar 12, 2008 | 24 Comments

On weekends, 200 vehicles and 4,500 pedestrians per hour make their way down Prince Street, yet the vast majority of the street’s public space is given over to motor vehicle traffic and parking. Community Board 2’s Traffic & Transportation Committee heard specifics last night on a DOT pilot project that would open a segment of […]

Mime Threat Overshadows Car-Free Prince Street Proposal

By Aaron Naparstek | Mar 7, 2008 | 81 Comments

If you read the comments on the previous post, then you know something interesting is in the works for Prince Street. Next Tuesday, Community Board 2’s Transportation Committee will consider a proposal to turn a six-block stretch of Prince Street, from Lafayette to West Broadway, into a car-free zone on Sundays from 11am to 6pm. […]

StreetFilm: The Street Life of Havana

By Ben Fried | Feb 26, 2008 | 40 Comments

Ethan Kent of Project for Public Spaces recently returned from a trip to Havana with a trove of pictures, cut together in this Streetfilm by Nick Whitaker. Whatever changes are in store for the country in the wake of Fidel Castro’s departure from power, these images make clear that the dense, flourishing street life of […]

Peñalosa to New York Pols: BRT & Pricing Benefit Working Class

By Ben Fried | Feb 20, 2008 | 11 Comments

Streetfilms captured highlights of Enrique Penalosa’s appearance with COMMUTE. One of the most entrenched fallacies in the congestion pricing debate has been the assertion that blue-collar New Yorkers get the short end of the stick. The claim never withstood scrutiny, but now it is facing an especially strong counterargument from Communities United for Transportation Equity […]

City Numbers Show Highest Cyclist Death Toll in Eight Years

By Brad Aaron | Jan 29, 2008 | 28 Comments

Traffic fatalities in 2007 were at their lowest level since the city began keeping records almost 100 years ago, according to data released today by the Bloomberg administration. However, while the number of pedestrian fatalities last year dropped sharply percentage-wise from 2006, down to roughly one death every two-and-a-half days, cyclist fatalities were up, and […]

Are Bikes the Secret to Danish Bliss?

By Ben Fried | Jan 18, 2008 | 5 Comments

Seeking an answer to the question "Why are Danes happier than everyone else?," ABC News speculates that trust and bicycles make all the difference: In Denmark, you can see trust in action all around you. Vegetable stands run on the honor system, mothers leave babies unattended in strollers outside cafés, and most bicycles are left […]

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