Recent Streetsblog NYC posts about Out of Town

Effective Traffic Calming Device: The Frisbee

By Jason Varone | Jul 27, 2007 | 8 Comments

From Sean Roche at the Newton Streets and Sidewalks blog: Want to slow traffic? Throw a frisbee across the street. That’s what six-year-old son of NS&S and I learned on Sunday. Please note that we did not throw the frisbee in front of traffic. We stopped throwing as soon as any car approached. But, our […]

French Revolution

By Aaron Naparstek | Jul 26, 2007 | 18 Comments

Two lanes in the middle of this Parisian avenue have been set aside for the exclusive use of buses, bikes and taxis. Private automobiles have been squeezed into the margins. Serge Schemman has a great little essay on Parisian transportation and public space policy on the editorial page of today’s New York Times. I was […]

Accidents Halved As Street is Stripped of ‘Safety’ Features

By Aaron Naparstek | Jul 25, 2007 | 13 Comments

The results are in on one of urban designer and "shared space" proponent Ben Hamilton-Baillie’s London projects. Kensington High Street is twice as safe now that all of the traffic engineering "safety features" are gone. The Standard reports: ACCIDENT levels have almost halved in a London street where "safety" equipment such as guard rails, white […]

Welcome to Davis, California: A Bicycle Friendly Town

By Aaron Naparstek | Jul 25, 2007 | 3 Comments

StreetFilms’ Clarence Eckerson has been in Davis, California the last few days, filming one of the premier bicycling cities in the United States. Clarence has a preliminary report and some photos up on the web site with a StreetFilm yet to come. It’s worth a quick look.

Microbuses and Bike Sharing: The New Parisian Street Scene

By Aaron Naparstek | Jul 24, 2007 | 11 Comments

Luc Nadal of the Institute for Transportation Development Policy sends along these photos showing some of the exciting new things happening on Parisian streets these days. We’ve been hearing a lot about Velib, Paris’s new public bike-sharing program. But that is just one of many new transportation and public space programs initiated by Mayor Bertrand […]

The World’s First Sustainable Parking Structure

By Jason Varone | Jul 20, 2007 | 8 Comments

James Howard Kunstler‘s Eyesore of the Month of July is the nation’s first LEED-certified, "sustainable solar-powered parking structure." Yep. Only in California. Kunstler writes: Apparently nobody informed these idiots that happy motoring is not a sustainable activity, and neither is the parking that necessarily attends it. This is apart from the sheer appalling monumental ugliness […]

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