Recent Streetsblog NYC posts about Traffic Calming

Eyes on the Street: West End Avenue Gets Its Road Diet

By Stephen Miller | Oct 16, 2014 | 21 Comments

After Cooper Stock and Jean Chambers were killed in West End Avenue crosswalks by turning drivers earlier this year, DOT unveiled a 35-block road diet for the dangerous Upper West Side street. Now, the plan is on the ground, and pedestrian islands are set to be installed within a month. The redesign is a standard […]

DCP Sketches Out Waterfront Transit and Safer Streets for Western Queens

By Stephen Miller | Oct 10, 2014 | 11 Comments

A new transitway from LaGuardia Airport to Downtown Brooklyn is the most ambitious recommendation in a draft report [PDF] from the Department of City Planning on transportation in Western Queens, which also includes a raft of smaller changes that would make the streets of Astoria and Long Island City safer and more livable. While the transitway is the […]

Rumor Mill: Safety Overhaul in the Works for the “Boulevard of Death”

By Stephen Miller | Oct 6, 2014 | 2 Comments

Word on the street is that Queens Boulevard could be the first major arterial redesign initiated by Polly Trottenberg’s DOT. At a Friday panel on transportation equity organized by the Congress for the New Urbanism, architect John Massengale said he is working with Transportation Alternatives on conceptual designs that will spark conversation before DOT hosts […]

To Make Atlantic Ave Safer, Advocates Want to Hear All About Its Problems

By Stephen Miller | Oct 1, 2014 | No Comments

Efforts to improve safety along Atlantic Avenue are moving ahead as advocates gain support and the Department of City Planning continues its study of the dangerous arterial street. Each year, about 140 pedestrians and cyclists are seriously injured or killed on Atlantic Avenue, according to Transportation Alternatives. The Tri-State Transportation Campaign ranked Atlantic the third-most […]

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Will Montgomery County Botch the Streets in a Model Suburban Retrofit?

By Tanya Snyder | Oct 1, 2014 | No Comments

Four years ago, White Flint, a neighborhood of North Bethesda, Maryland, most known for its shopping mall, caught the attention of urbanists around the nation with a proposal to reimagine car-oriented suburban streets as a walkable, mixed-use, transit-oriented neighborhood. Montgomery County adopted a plan for the town that would narrow its wide arterial roadways and […]

Bowing to Brooklyn CB 3, DOT Puts Bed Stuy Slow Zone on Ice

By Stephen Miller | Sep 11, 2014 | 18 Comments

Bedford Stuyvesant won’t be getting 20 mph streets after all. Despite months of talks after Brooklyn Community Board 3 rejected a request from neighborhood residents for a 20 mph Slow Zone in February, DOT has decided to pull the plug on a traffic calming plan covering 23 blocks of Bed Stuy, effectively giving the community board […]

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