Recent Streetsblog NYC posts about Road Design

Opinion: How Roundabouts Increase Safety for Vulnerable Road Users

By Jonathan French | Sep 25, 2022 | No Comments

Congress has not only codified roundabouts into federal law for the first time, and put them at the top of the list of examples of highway safety improvement projects. They've also defined them as providing “for the safety of all road users.”

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‘We’re Luring Bicyclists To Their Deaths’: Husband of Diplomat Killed While Cycling Turns Anguish Into Advocacy

By Kea Wilson | Sep 1, 2022 | No Comments

He's raising money to stop other families from having to endure similar tragedies — and urging the public to reckon with an epidemic of traffic violence that's left his children without a mother.

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Why Vision Zero Advocates Need to Talk About Anne Heche

By Kea Wilson | Aug 16, 2022 | No Comments

The actor's crash is the kind of extreme collision about which even the most avowed Vision Zero advocates typically stay silent — possibly because, secretly, they are not totally sure the crash could have been prevented. But Heche's crash was absolutely preventable. Here's why.

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Congresswoman’s Driver in Fatal Crash Had History of Troubling Aggro Tweets

By Kea Wilson | Aug 10, 2022 | No Comments

A 27-year-old staffer with a history of troubling tweets about fast driving was behind the wheel during the crash that killed Rep. Jackie Walorski, according to a revised police statement — and that raises troubling questions.

Riverdale Avenue is so fat it needs to be put on a diet, says DOT. But Council Member Eric Dinowitz (inset) disagrees. Photo: Google

Bronx Pol Loses Fight Against Street Safety as DOT Moves Ahead on Riverdale Ave.

By Gersh Kuntzman | Aug 4, 2022 | No Comments

The Department of Transportation has dismissed complaints of a Bronx Council member and will move ahead with its life-saving plan to narrow Riverdale Avenue from a four-lane speedway into a slower residential street

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This Artificial Intelligence Bot is Designing Better Streets Than Some Engineers

By Kea Wilson | Jul 28, 2022 | No Comments

Leave it to a Brooklyn artist to break through Americans' willful inability to imagine how their communities could be designed around people instead of automobiles.

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