Recent Streetsblog NYC posts about Traffic Calming

CB2 Signs Off On Prince-Bleecker Bike Lanes

By Brad Aaron | Apr 20, 2007 | 2 Comments

After over an hour of public comment, and another hour of deliberation, Community Board 2 last night voted to recommend the DOT proceed with bike lanes parallel to Houston Street, to be located primarily on Prince and Bleecker. The resolution crafted last week by CB2’s Traffic & Transportation Committee — defining the new bike […]

Bus Bulbs Are Blooming

By Sarah Goodyear | Apr 18, 2007 | 15 Comments

According to a more-than-a-little-snarky post on Curbed, the first of Lower Broadway’s hotly anticipated bus bulbs has been constructed on Broadway south of Spring Street. As Streetsblog wrote when the DOT announced the plan to construct the bulbs back in March, this is a noteworthy development for several reasons: The benefits of bus bulbs include […]

DOT Called Out for Lacking Clear Ped Safety Plan

By Brad Aaron | Apr 13, 2007 | 1 Comment

While acknowledging that casualties have dropped overall in recent years, safety advocates and government officials are calling on the DOT to establish measurable benchmarks for further reducing pedestrian injuries and deaths in the city, and want the agency to get moving on relatively minor improvements that would help meet those goals. At a hearing of […]

Who Opposes A Plan for Safer, More Livable Streets and Why?

By Aaron Naparstek | Apr 11, 2007 | 9 Comments

The scene in front of Dizzy’s Diner on 9th Street and Eighth Avenue. Park Slope’s 9th Street corridor, with Prospect Park on one end and the Battery Tunnel on the other, has long been known as one of the most dangerous streets in the neighborhood when it comes to car crashes. In March 2004 two […]

Primeggia’s One-Way Safety Claims Are Based on 1970s Studies

By Aaron Naparstek | Apr 6, 2007 | 3 Comments

DOT Deputy Commissioner Michael Primeggia on March 15: "I know that two-way streets are less safe." A couple of weeks ago, following the epic, 650-person "One Way? No Way!" public meeting in Park Slope, Brooklyn Papers columnist Gersh Kuntzman accused his fellow Park Slopers of being "closed-minded, anti-intellectual whiners" for rejecting DOT Deputy Commissioner Michael […]

Vanderbilt Avenue: The Model for DOT’s 9th Street Proposal?

By Aaron Naparstek | Mar 29, 2007 | 12 Comments

As noted elsewhere, tonight the transportation committee of Brooklyn Community Board 6 will consider a plan by DOT to redesign 9th Street from Third Avenue to Prospect Park West in Park Slope, Brooklyn. Ninth Street is a very wide street for the number of vehicles that actually use it. Overly wide streets may tend to […]

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