Recent Streetsblog NYC posts about Park Slope

New PPW Results: More New Yorkers Use It, Without Clogging the Street

By Noah Kazis | Dec 8, 2010 | 14 Comments

On the heels of Brad Lander’s survey showing that a whopping 78 percent of interested Brooklyn residents want to keep the traffic calming Prospect Park West bike lane, DOT has released still more data [PDF] showing that the new street design keeps New Yorkers safer and helps them get where they’re going. With two more […]

Confirmed: Former DOT Commish Weinshall Wants PPW Bike Lane Gone

By Ben Fried | Dec 7, 2010 | 15 Comments

David Goodman’s City Room piece on the PPW bike lane survey includes the first new information in months about the extent of former DOT Commissioner Iris Weinshall’s involvement in efforts to do away with the current design. Following the October demonstrations where bike lane proponents vastly outnumbered naysayers, Weinshall and other opponents have not let […]

Nearly 3,000 Survey Responses Show Brooklyn Wants to Keep PPW Bike Lane

By Ben Fried | Dec 7, 2010 | 6 Comments

The results are in from Brad Lander and Steve Levin’s survey about the Prospect Park West bike lane, and the data depict widespread support for the re-designed street among Park Slope residents and Brooklynites in general. Of the nearly 3,000 submissions from Brooklyn residents, 78 percent expressed support for the current two-way bike path configuration […]

Last Chance to Tell Lander and Levin How You Feel About the New PPW

By Ben Fried | Oct 29, 2010 | 4 Comments

Today is the last day you can fill out the Prospect Park West bike lane survey. City Council members Brad Lander and Steve Levin set up the survey a few weeks ago to see what their constituents think of the redesigned PPW. If you haven’t filled out the survey yet (and especially if you live […]

Former Deputy Mayor Under Dinkins Lobbies City Hall to Kill PPW Bike Lane

By Ben Fried | Oct 28, 2010 | 64 Comments

Last week’s rally to defend the Prospect Park West bike lane, organized in response to a concurrent anti-bike lane protest, was a clear-cut demonstration of the public support enjoyed by a project that’s calmed speeding traffic and made cycling more attainable for people of all ages. By most estimates, supporters of the new PPW outnumbered […]

Results of the New PPW: Speeding Down Dramatically, Cycling Up Big

By Ben Fried | Oct 22, 2010 | 14 Comments

Kate Hinds at Transportation Nation got her hands on an advance copy of DOT’s Prospect Park West radar gun study and cyclist counts [PDF]. The data on traffic speeds confirm the results that Park Slope Neighbors observed this summer: The new configuration — two traffic lanes and a two-way protected bike path instead of three […]

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