Recent Streetsblog NYC posts about Traffic Calming

In Progress: A More Walkable, Bikeable, Trottable Park Circle

By Ben Fried | Nov 20, 2009 | 18 Comments

A protected bike path will soon wrap around the circumference of Park Circle. Some segments are bi-directional. There’s a very nice set of livable streets improvements underway at Park Circle, where Brooklynites heading to and from Prospect Park mix it up with traffic heading to and from the Prospect Expressway, Ocean Parkway, and the Fort […]

Streetfilms Shorties: Why Don’t We Plant Trees in the Road?

By Ben Fried | Oct 20, 2009 | 13 Comments

Clarence recently dug up a few unused nuggets from last year’s junket to Melbourne, Australia. Watch and see how curbside space in residential neighborhoods has been repurposed for plantings that double as traffic calming treatments. Whatever red tape they had to hack through to plant trees in the roadbed, not just on the sidewalk, they’ve […]

Legacy of Downtown Brooklyn Traffic Calming Advocates Continues

By Ben Fried | Aug 28, 2009 | No Comments

A bit more background on the generous neckdown at Smith and Bergen spotlighted earlier today: This pedestrian amenity never would have been built without the long-term organizing for the Downtown Brooklyn Traffic Calming Project. Street protests and advocacy campaigns stretching back more than a dozen years are bearing fruit now. And advocates are still on […]

Now That’s What I Call a Neckdown!

By Ben Fried | Aug 28, 2009 | 19 Comments

Since the spring, DOT construction crews have been building out traffic calming improvements all over the neighborhoods near downtown Brooklyn. When the years-in-the-making Downtown Brooklyn Traffic Calming Project wraps up, pedestrians will have safer crossings at dozens of intersections. The sidewalk extension at the northwest corner of Smith and Bergen, shown here, is especially impressive. […]

Eyes on the Street: Bike Traffic on Eighth = Rolling Goldmine

By Ben Fried | Jul 16, 2009 | 15 Comments

Thanks to BicyclesOnly for posting this shot from yesterday morning’s commute to the Streetsblog Flickr pool. By my count, we’ve got six people riding bikes here on a one-and-a-half block stretch of the Eighth Avenue protected path, with two or three others farther back, in the shade. As far as I can tell, everyone is […]

Ask and Ye Shall Receive: Brooklyn CB9 Gets a Bike Lane on Empire Blvd

By Ben Fried | Jul 1, 2009 | 19 Comments

DOT added bike lanes to its traffic-calming project for Empire Boulevard — at the request of CB9. Image: NYCDOT. These days, it’s not often that we get to report about New York City community boards pushing DOT for more progressive street designs. So sit back and enjoy this post. If you read Streetsblog regularly, it’ll […]

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