Recent Streetsblog NYC posts about Traffic Calming

3 Graphs That Explain Why 20 MPH Should Be the Limit on City Streets

By Angie Schmitt | May 31, 2016 | No Comments

Speed kills, especially on city streets teeming with pedestrians and cyclists. The investigative news nonprofit ProPublica has produced an interactive graph that deftly conveys how just a few miles per hour can spell the difference between life and death when a person is struck by a motorist. ProPublica’s Lena Groeger used data from the AAA Safety Foundation to chart the plummeting […]

Sneckdowns: The Comic Strip

By Ben Fried | Mar 18, 2016 | No Comments

Clarence Eckerson, Jr. is not the only talented Eckerson in New York. There’s one more winter storm expected to hit the city this weekend, and Gary Eckerson of Bay Ridge (Clarence’s brother), has six panels in anticipation of the occasion. Enjoy. Word is the Eckersons are searching for an off-Broadway venue to stage “Sneckdowns: The Musical” in winter […]

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 […]

Donovan Richards Wants Safer Conditions at Deadly Rosedale Intersection

By Brad Aaron | Feb 23, 2016 | 8 Comments

City Council Member Donovan Richards wants DOT to put speed cameras at the Rosedale intersection where a hit-and-run driver killed a teenage girl earlier this month — a request the city may not be able to fulfill due to restrictions imposed by Albany. Richards also urged DOT to make physical improvements to protect people from speeding drivers. […]

Eyes on the Street: DIY School Zone Traffic-Calming in Corona

By Brad Aaron | Feb 9, 2016 | 3 Comments

Today Transportation Alternatives staff and members of Families for Safe Streets are in Albany, asking legislators to allow NYC to install speed enforcement cameras near every school in the city. This example of a crossing guard’s efforts to defend school kids in Queens, courtesy of Streetfilms’ Clarence Eckerson Jr., is another good illustration of why the state should lift arbitrary […]

The DIY Sneckdown and Other Snow-Based Traffic Calming

By Brad Aaron | Jan 28, 2016 | 3 Comments

https://twitter.com/bdhowald/status/691847662992281600/video/1 The Department of Sanitation said yesterday that the city is finally working to clear bike lanes of snow and ice. But five days after Jonas moved on, there’s still plenty of slippery, slushy stuff where people walk and bike on New York City streets. On the upside, it’s a been a great week for sneckdowns. Here’s another […]

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