Aaron Naparstek

 

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Via Brownstoner, the Department of Transportation is building out a nice street redesign project in Brooklyn right now as a part of its Ft. Greene Bike Lane & Traffic Calming Project (download a project description here). Formerly a 70-foot-wide one-way street, Carlton Avenue, above, has been converted to two-way operation with five-foot bike lanes on either side. DOT is now building a 20-foot wide planted median in the middle. The Carlton Ave. improvements are similar to recent projects on Park Slope's 9th Street and Vanderbilt Ave. in Prospect Heights.

An op/ed by Eduardo Porter in today's New York Times makes a passing suggestion that by reducing the number of people who do solo car commutes, congestion pricing would make New Yorkers happier.

The Municipal Art Society will be announcing the winner of its Nasty Newsrack Photo Competition tomorrow. 

MTA Chief Lee Sander told CBS reporter Marcia Kramer on Wednesday that the passage of Mayor Bloomberg's congestion pricing pilot project may help stave off a fare hike.

Wallace Murray and Jason Nu are two graduate students in Hunter College’s geography department.  They have teamed up with New York City Department of City Planning’s Transportation Division to create a bike parking survey. They write:

Pedestrians in Athens, Greece, tired of being abused on traffic-choked, car-dominated city streets, have begun taking matters into their own hands. The New York Times has a really interesting story today on a group that calls itself the Streetpanthers:

The street re-surfacing men and machinery were out in force in Soho last night. Houston Street Bike Safety Initiative Director Ian Dutton snapped this photo on Prince Street. Once the street is repaved, the Department of Transportation will stripe the hotly debated Prince and Bleecker Street bike lanes.

Feel free to pile on. What else would you add to a Streetsblog Index?