Recent Streetsblog NYC posts about Traffic Calming

Applications for 20 MPH Zones Pour in From the Bronx, Brooklyn and Queens

By Noah Kazis | Feb 2, 2012 | 13 Comments

The deadline to apply to NYC DOT for a neighborhood slow zone is tomorrow, and groups from many different corners of New York are making their case for bringing a 20 mph speed limit and traffic calming measures to their neighborhoods. “We are hearing from people applying for zones all over the city,” said Lindsey […]

Adding Neighborhood 20 MPH Zones Isn’t a Zero-Sum Game

By Ben Fried | Jan 24, 2012 | 10 Comments

The Brooklyn Paper ran one of its trademark neighbor-vs.-neighbor stories today, turning a weekend public workshop about implementing a 20 mph zone in Park Slope into an occasion for more conflict-driven reporting: Greenwood Heights activists claim drivers heading south on Sixth Avenue already speed up once they cross the Prospect Expressway and hit a five-block […]

CB 2 Committee Asks DOT to Study Lafayette Avenue Bike Lane

By Ben Fried | Jan 18, 2012 | 6 Comments

It only took Hilda Cohen and Ali Loxton ten weeks to collect 1,600 signatures supporting a traffic-calming redesign, including a bike lane, for Brooklyn’s Lafayette Avenue. Yesterday evening they took their petition to the transportation committee of Community Board 2 and made their case. The result: a 9-1 committee vote asking DOT to study Cohen […]

Safety Fix at Prospect Park Entrance Projected to Prevent 10 Injuries a Year

By Noah Kazis | Dec 8, 2011 | 7 Comments

After years of neighborhood activism, the Department of Transportation plans to install much-needed safety improvements at the dangerous intersection of Ocean Avenue and Parkside Avenue, at the southeast corner of Prospect Park. By closing a park entrance to automobiles, DOT will simplify the intersection and shrink the space dedicated to traffic, preventing an estimated ten […]

Neighborhood Slow Zone Opens in Claremont, Perhaps the First of Many

By Noah Kazis | Nov 21, 2011 | 11 Comments

The city’s first “neighborhood slow zone” officially opened this morning, bringing a 20 mph speed limit and new traffic calming treatments to the residential Claremont neighborhood in the Bronx. Transportation Commissioner Janette Sadik-Khan, joined by Bronx Borough President Ruben Diaz, Jr., City Council Transportation Committee Chair James Vacca and local District Manager John Dudley, announced […]

London Asks Would-Be Mayors For 20 MPH Speeds — What Should NYC Ask For?

By Noah Kazis | Sep 9, 2011 | 15 Comments

Across London, 20 mph zones combine a lower speed limit with physical street engineering and camera enforcement to create pockets of safety across the city. According to the British Medical Journal, serious traffic injuries and fatalities have fallen by 46 percent within the zones; 27 fewer Londoners are killed or seriously injured each year because […]

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