Recent Streetsblog NYC posts about Quality of Life

When Streets Are for People

By Brad Aaron | May 2, 2007 | 7 Comments

U.S. urban centers large and small are following Latin American cities in periodically shutting off streets to cars, and they are reaping the benefits. The Christian Science Monitor reports that "at least 20" American cities are intermittently keeping cars out of public parks, with some planning to make the move to a permanent prohibition. Meanwhile, […]

Eyes on the Street: Parking it for Lunch in London

By Aaron Naparstek | Apr 27, 2007 | 1 Comment

On-street parking space becomes a pub’s outdoor patio in Covent Garden, London. Photo: Aaron Naparstek

Tell Marty Markowitz You Support DOT’s 9th Street Plan

By Aaron Naparstek | Apr 27, 2007 | 6 Comments

If you live in or around Park Slope, Brooklyn, then please take just a minute to click this link and send a fax to Borough President Marty Markowitz expressing your support for DOT’s traffic safety plan for 9th Street. As we’ve reported here on Streetsblog, the Department of Transportation has put forward a thoughtful and […]

Is Walking PlaNYC’s Missing Mode?

By Brad Aaron | Apr 26, 2007 | 3 Comments

"Transportation has always been the key to unlocking New York’s potential." So begins the PlaNYC chapter on transportation, which for 26 pages lays out how the city can better meet the mobility needs of its existing population, plus an expected additional one million new residents, by 2030. While the document offers tantalizing details on […]

Fun With Numbers (Or: The PlaNYC Index)

By Brad Aaron | Apr 26, 2007 | 1 Comment

Number of times each of the following words or phrases appears in the PlaNYC chapter on transportation: congestion: 105 bus(es): 157 bike/bikes/biker/bicycle/bicycles/bicycling/cycling: 53 bike lane: 3 pedestrian: 9 sidewalk: 16 crosswalk: 2 safety: 7 pedestrian safety: 1 drive/driver(s)/driving: 58 car(s)/auto(s)/automobile: 27 truck(s)/truckers: 24 enforce/enforcing/enforcement: 15 speeding: 3 struck/injured/killed/fatalities: 0 Photo: faz../Flickr

Media (Mostly) Give PlaNYC Its Due

By Brad Aaron | Apr 25, 2007 | 8 Comments

When Malcom Murray-Clark, Director of Congestion Charging at Transport for London, visited New York last month, he cited negative media coverage as a major obstacle to implementing the congestion charge in the English capital. By contrast, unlike some, New York media on balance appear willing to give PlaNYC, and congestion pricing, the benefit of the […]

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