Recent Streetsblog NYC posts about Traffic Calming

Streetfilms: Tom Vanderbilt Talks Driver Behavior and Psychology

By Clarence Eckerson Jr. | Apr 27, 2010 | No Comments

Whether you’re a transportation geek or just curious about why people do the things they do behind the wheel, Tom Vanderbilt’s Traffic is one of the most fascinating books you can open up. Tom, who also writes the excellent blog How We Drive, was kind enough to drop by the Streetfilms office for a conversation about […]

Anonymous Bike Lane Opponent Scores Media Coup on NY1

By Ben Fried | Apr 21, 2010 | 14 Comments

Will we ever see the headline "Bike Lane Opponent Resorts to Misinformation and Lies"? Image: NY1 This report on the proposed Prospect Park West bike lane from NY1’s Jeanine Ramirez doesn’t quite stoop to Marcia Kramer levels of fabrication, but that might make it even more insidious. Slap together a few shots of ill-informed people […]

City, State DOTs Ask Albany to Help Keep Road Workers Safe

By Brad Aaron | Apr 20, 2010 | No Comments

NYCDOT workers at Monday’s memorial dedication. Photo: nycstreets/Flickr On Monday DOT marked National Work Zone Awareness Week with a new PR campaign and a call for state legislators to adopt penalties for drivers who endanger road workers — and, ergo, city pedestrians and cyclists. There were 720 work zone fatalities nationwide in 2008, 80 percent […]

Memo to Marty: Let’s Go Ahead and “Balance Out” Prospect Park West

By Ben Fried | Apr 12, 2010 | 32 Comments

Today’s Andrea Bernstein interview with Marty Markowitz (transcript here) is a must-read if you want to get inside the head of the Brooklyn Beep and see the borough through the tint of his windshield. Markowitz says he doesn’t want to "stigmatize" motorists. How about just slowing them down? The specific issue at hand is the […]

Making Streets for Walking: Dan Burden on Reforming Design Standards

By Noah Kazis | Apr 8, 2010 | 28 Comments

A template for an urban street in "Designing Walkable Urban Thoroughfares." Source: Claire Vlach, Bottomley Design & Planning. One of the foundational documents in our country’s history of car-centric street design is what’s known as the Green Book. These engineering guidelines, which have been published in various editions by the American Association of State Highway […]

How London Is Saving Lives With 20 MPH Zones

By Noah Kazis | Mar 22, 2010 | 20 Comments

One of London’s 20 mph zones, with physical traffic calming measures and the speed limit prominently displayed. Image: ITDP-Europe via Flickr. When Mayor Bloomberg announced that the new pedestrian spaces in Midtown are here to stay, he made special note of the safety improvements on Broadway, which he called "reason enough to make this permanent." […]

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