Recent Streetsblog NYC posts about Traffic Calming

Bloomberg and Sadik-Khan Announce New 20 MPH Slow Zones

By Brad Aaron | Jul 10, 2012 | 15 Comments

Mayor Bloomberg and NYC DOT Commissioner Janette Sadik-Khan today announced an expansion of the city’s Slow Zone program, which lowers speed limits in selected areas from 30 to 20 mph and implements low-cost traffic-calming measures like speed humps. Bloomberg and Sadik-Khan were joined in Corona by NYPD Chief of Transportation Bureau James Tuller, City Council […]

Deadly Fourth Avenue in Sunset Park Poised to Get Life-Saving Road Diet

By Ben Fried | May 3, 2012 | 22 Comments

It’s hard to imagine a street in more dire need of a safety upgrade than Fourth Avenue in Sunset Park, Brooklyn. Lined with schools, senior centers, subway stations, churches and stores — and situated in one of the city’s top walk-to-work neighborhoods — the street is a magnet for pedestrians of all ages. It’s also […]

Death of Staten Island Student R.J. Tillman Stokes Call for Safer Howard Ave

By Meredith Sladek | Apr 2, 2012 | 5 Comments

Staten Island’s Howard Avenue was once known as Serpentine Road. Though the moniker was mostly due to the serpentinite in the hill’s bedrock, the road also winds and writhes up Grymes Hill, the second highest point on Staten Island. The neighborhood is home to two college campuses, Wagner and St. John’s, the secondary schools Notre […]

Adriano Espaillat Was for Cut-Through Traffic Before He Was Against It

By Brad Aaron | Mar 6, 2012 | 10 Comments

I nearly spit out my coffee when I saw that Adriano Espaillat had signed on in support of the Inwood slow zone application. See, while he endorsed Mayor Bloomberg’s congestion pricing plan, the state senator from Upper Manhattan adamantly opposes placing tolls on Harlem River bridges, preferring that Inwood remain a bypass for toll-shopping motorists […]

Support For Neighborhood Slow Zones Keeps on Growing

By Noah Kazis | Mar 2, 2012 | 12 Comments

Interest continues to grow in the Department of Transportation’s slow speed zones, which place 20 mph speed limits on residential streets. One month after the application deadline for the program, community boards across the city continue to pass resolutions in support of slow zones. In February, Streetsblog wrote about applications or expressions of interest from Mt. […]

Classon Avenue Road Diet Wins Support From Fourth Community Board

By Noah Kazis | Feb 10, 2012 | 12 Comments

A plan to put Classon Avenue on a safety-enhancing road diet won unanimous approval from Brooklyn’s Community Board 8 last night. CB 8 was the fourth and final community board to vote on the proposal, according to the board. Each CB supported the plan. Under the proposal from NYC DOT [PDF], the north-south corridor will […]

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