Recent Streetsblog NYC posts about Park Slope

DOT’s Park Slope Plan Requires Community Board Support

By Aaron Naparstek | Mar 7, 2007 | 13 Comments

Crain’s reporter Erik Engquist gets some more information about the Department of Transportation’s plans to convert two Park Slope Avenues into one-way streets. DOT’s press office is now saying: DOT would like to change Sixth and Seventh Avenues to one-way streets to simplify the turning movements at intersections along the Avenues which would enhance safety […]

Commissioner Weinshall Agrees: Two-Way Streets Calm Traffic

By Aaron Naparstek | Mar 5, 2007 | No Comments

While Michael Primeggia, DOT’s Deputy Commissioner for Traffic Operations is trying to sell one-way mini-highways through Park Slope as a pedestrian safety improvement, his boss, DOT Commissioner Iris Weinshall, is hawking the exact opposite. On Thursday, March 1, at the City Council Transportation Committee oversight hearing on the Mayor’s Long-Term Planning initiative, Weinshall touted two-way […]

DOT Explains New Traffic Solution. But What’s the Problem?

By Aaron Naparstek | Mar 1, 2007 | 19 Comments

The Department of Transportation’s press office sends along this response to the story we broke yesterday about the agency’s plan to revamp Fourth, Sixth and Seventh Avenues running through Park Slope, Brooklyn: DOT has proposed changing 6th and 7th Avenues to one-way streets which we believe will have many benefits including simplifying the turning movements […]

DOT’s Plan for Park Slope Traffic “Improvements” Confirmed

By Aaron Naparstek | Feb 28, 2007 | 1 Comment

We have more details and official confirmation of DOT’s proposed changes for three Avenues running through Park Slope, Brooklyn. Brooklyn Community Board 6, which runs one of the better community board web sites out there, has posted its agenda for the next Transportation Committee meeting: Presentation and discussion of a proposal by the Department of […]

DOT to Propose Radical New Traffic Plan for Park Slope

By Aaron Naparstek | Feb 28, 2007 | 105 Comments

Park Slope’s Fifth Avenue: a pedestrian- and bike-friendly, two-way, neighborhood Main Street. New York City’s Department of Transportation is getting set to propose a major change in the way cars and trucks flow through the avenues and streets of Park Slope, Brooklyn.Sources say that the plan will include the following: Fourth Avenue, a major six-lane […]

Confronting Our Problems

By Aaron Naparstek | Dec 21, 2006 | 113 Comments

Below is an interesting e-mail sent yesterday to Transportation Alternatives. T.A. forwarded it to Streetsblog and we all thought that it would make fodder for an interesting discussion. The letter’s author gave Streetsblog permission to publish it. One of my questions is whether people think that this cyclist’s approach is a productive way for New York City’s urban environmental advocates to press […]

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