Recent Streetsblog NYC posts about Traffic Calming

Brooklyn Bridge to Be Closed to Cyclists for Bike Traffic Calming

By Brad Aaron | Oct 31, 2008 | 47 Comments

The Brooklyn Bridge will be closed to cyclists this Saturday and Sunday, November 1 and 2, from 7 a.m. to 2 p.m. for what DOT describes as measures to calm bike traffic on the promenade. From an e-mail issued by the Brooklyn borough commissioner’s office earlier this week: NYCDOT will be implementing enhanced markings and […]

TA Rolls Out CrashStat Improvements

By Brad Aaron | Oct 29, 2008 | 8 Comments

E. 33rd St. and Park Ave. was the city’s most dangerous intersection between 1995 and 2005. Transportation Alternatives’ CrashStat 2.0 is now out of beta, with improvements in performance and functionality. The most obvious change is that the data loads a lot faster, and the icons are cleaner. There are more data points, too: the […]

Safe Streets for Seniors? Try Telling Police and Prosecutors.

By Brad Aaron | Oct 27, 2008 | 7 Comments

On Friday, two pedestrians and a man in a wheelchair, all aged 60 or above, were hit by motor vehicles in Manhattan, Brooklyn and Queens. Two died. One was in critical condition as of Friday night. Two drivers fled the scene. One remains at large. The other was found by police and said he didn’t […]

Vision Zero NYC: Ending the Body Count

By Michael Kodransky | Oct 21, 2008 | 31 Comments

Vision Zero is about more than looking both ways. The following article, "Ending the Body Count," appears in the upcoming fall edition of Transportation Alternatives’ Reclaim Magazine. Last year, I wrote a letter to the NYC Department of Transportation asking for traffic calming on 65th Street near my home in Bensonhurst, Brooklyn. Several elderly pedestrians […]

Plenty of Changes Underway on Chrystie and Forsyth (But No Cycle Track)

By Gideon Shapiro | Oct 14, 2008 | 9 Comments

New pedestrian space borders Sara Roosevelt Park on Forsyth Street. (The buffered zone is for parking, not biking.) Redesigns of Chrystie and Forsyth Streets have started to materialize, giving cyclists and pedestrians a glimpse of changes to come. New bicycle lanes on Chrystie Street may be the most widely anticipated aspect of DOT’s planned changes […]

Pedestrian Fatalities Spark Few Media Questions, Zero Cries for “Justice”

By Brad Aaron | Oct 6, 2008 | 16 Comments

Early Saturday morning, two 26-year-old women were killed while trying to cross 14th Street at First Avenue in the East Village. According to the Daily News and other outlets, Stephanie Dees (right) and Ann Sullivan were both hit by a taxi traveling west on 14th, and Dees was hit by a second cab, apparently heading […]

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