Recent Streetsblog NYC posts about Traffic Calming

Bay Ridge Mother Stirs Street Safety Awakening at Brooklyn CB 10

By Noah Kazis | Mar 12, 2010 | 3 Comments

Maureen Landers was walking to pick up her son Max from P.S. 127 in Bay Ridge last April when she was struck by a motorist turning onto Fourth Avenue. Her stroller — thankfully empty — was flattened. She was rushed to the hospital but did not sustain major injuries. As for the driver, he didn’t […]

Queens CB 6 Eager for Safety Fixes (Just Don’t Touch Their Parking)

By Noah Kazis | Jan 20, 2010 | 2 Comments

The Rego Park senior focus area, which includes several blocks of Queens Boulevard, is slated for pedestrian improvements. Click here to enlarge. Image: NYCDOT. As we’ve recently seen in Astoria, DOT doesn’t always bring innovative traffic calming tools to streets that need them. What happens when they do? At a community board meeting in Rego […]

DOT Shows No Traffic Calming Ingenuity for Astoria’s Deadly 21st Ave

By Noah Kazis | Jan 14, 2010 | 7 Comments

Astoria residents demanding a safer 21st Avenue. Image: indiejourno.com. Over the last six weeks, Astoria residents have made a strong push for a safer 21st Avenue, a street plagued by speeding cut-through traffic. In response to requests for traffic calming, NYCDOT recently sent what one resident called a "cryptic letter" explaining only that the street […]

Report: Tame Traffic, and More People Will Choose to Walk and Bike

By Noah Kazis | Jan 5, 2010 | 3 Comments

Research shows that more traffic means fewer cyclists. Photo by jaygoldman via Flickr. It may seem obvious that speeding traffic discourages walking and biking. But the evidence is scarce and scattered. A new paper by Peter Jacobsen, Francesca Racioppi and Harry Rutter aims to improve the understanding of how traffic affects cyclist and pedestrian behavior […]

Council Members: If Only There Was Some Way to Deter Reckless Driving

By Ben Fried | Dec 4, 2009 | 6 Comments

Yesterday the City Council held a hearing on street safety for older New Yorkers. The hearing came while the deaths of Lillian and Peter Sabados, an elderly Staten Island couple run down by Allmir Lekperic on Thanksgiving eve, are still fresh in people’s minds. But when it comes to keeping drivers like Lekperic from harming […]

Eyes on the Street: Bigger Sidewalks, Better Bike Lanes, Safer Streets

By Ben Fried | Nov 23, 2009 | 13 Comments

Clarence Eckerson sends these shots of DOT street safety improvements taken on a recent ride near the Brooklyn and Queens waterfront. Above is the newly traffic-calmed intersection of Joralemon and Hicks — part of the Downtown Brooklyn Traffic Calming Project — which now sports two sidewalk extensions. (According to the Post, a third corner was […]

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