Recent Streetsblog NYC posts about Traffic Calming

CB 9 Stands by Morningside Road Diet, But DOT Does Not

By Stephen Miller | Jan 30, 2014 | 15 Comments

A plan to improve pedestrian safety on speeding-plagued Morningside Avenue in Harlem, supported by one community board but stalled by another, is on track for months of additional meetings as DOT goes back to the drawing board. The current plan, which would remove excess car lanes to create space for turn lanes and pedestrian islands, received a […]

Lentol Wants 20 MPH Speed Limits on Big, Dangerous Brooklyn Streets

By Stephen Miller | Jan 28, 2014 | 8 Comments

This afternoon, Assembly Member Joseph Lentol announced that he’s sent a letter to Transportation Commissioner Polly Trottenberg asking for 20 mph speed limits on the busiest, deadliest roads in his district. “There are three main streets within my district that are notorious for speeders – McGuinness Boulevard, Kent Avenue, and Park Avenue,” Lentol wrote in […]

Sneckdowns: Taking the World by Storm

By Brad Aaron | Jan 22, 2014 | 27 Comments

The #sneckdown is now a phenomenon, with nature’s traffic-calming gaining international media coverage and photos popping up from across the U.S. and Canada. “The snow is almost like nature’s tracing paper,” Streetfilms’ Clarence Eckerson told the BBC. “It’s free. You don’t have to do a crazy expensive traffic calming study. It provides a visual cue […]

Video: Drivers Endanger Lives on Morningside Avenue as CB 10 Dithers

By Brad Aaron | Jan 21, 2014 | 5 Comments

While Manhattan Community Board 10 fails to take action, proposed measures to make Morningside Avenue safer for pedestrians continue to languish. Among other changes, DOT has proposed restriping Morningside between 116th Street and 126th Street from two lanes in each direction to one lane in each direction with a center striped median, concrete pedestrian islands and […]

Harlem CBs Look to Weaken Safety Plan; Levine: DOT Should Move Ahead

By Stephen Miller | Jan 13, 2014 | 14 Comments

A 10-block road diet proposed for Morningside Avenue in Harlem continues to face resistance from Manhattan Community Board 10. In the latest development, it seems the transportation committee chair of CB 10 is trying to convince neighboring Community Board 9, which contains the west side of the avenue, to amend its vote in favor of […]

Levin to DOT: Deadly McGuinness Blvd Needs Traffic Calming, Speed Cams

By Stephen Miller | Jan 7, 2014 | No Comments

A week after Nicole Detweiler was killed while walking on McGuinness Boulevard — at least the third person to be struck and killed on the street in the last five years — Council Member Steve Levin sent a letter to incoming Transportation Commissioner Polly Trottenberg asking her to prioritize traffic calming and and speed cameras […]

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