Op-Ed: The Atlantic Avenue Rebuild Is Taking Too Long
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The next chapter of the Department of Transportation’s long-awaited rebuild of Atlantic Avenue — one of the city’s deadliest corridors — won’t likely start until 2021.
Recent Streetsblog NYC posts about Traffic
Eighth Avenue To Get a Road Diet to Give More Space to Walkers, Cyclists
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The city is proposing a sweeping transformation between 38th and 45th streets that will reduce car lanes by 20 feet, extend a northbound protected bike lane that currently ends at 39th Street, and widen, by 10 feet, the overcrowded sidewalk from 39th to 41st streets.
CPW Gets Protected Bike Lane (Yay!) And Loses 400 Parking Spaces (Yay!)
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It’s a pretty sizable win in the ongoing war against cars.
Op-Ed: Treat Traffic Deaths Like the Measles
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Mary Beth Kelly: As safe-streets advocate, I am constantly amazed at just how many New Yorkers remain blasé about the serial killer hiding in plain sight.
The DOT Quandary: Double-Parking Isn’t Illegal — Except When It Actually Is
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A new proposal aims to reduce congestion-causing deliveries, but objectively speaking, it won't change much on New York's chaotic streets unless the city stops giving so much free parking to car owners.
De Blasio’s City Fleet Cuts Don’t Come Close to Reducing the Car Problem He Created
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More city workers are driving and their overall mileage is way up.