Michael King

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This Google street view reflects what the driver saw as she exited the Stop and Shop on Forest Avenue in Staten Island. Photo: Google

OPINION: Let’s Fix These Killer ‘Signalized Sidewalks’

By Michael King and Bill Schultheiss | Dec 7, 2021 | No Comments

A flawed intersection design helped lead to the traffic death of a toddler on Staten Island. Here's what we must do — and which intersections around the city to avoid.

OPINION: Sorting Out Space for Pedestrians and Cyclists

By Michael King | Jul 16, 2021 | No Comments

What the next mayor can do for safety. (Hint: widen sidewalks at the expense of car lanes.)

It's not the expansion of cycling that causes the epidemic of crashes. It's the lack of cycling infrastructure, the persistence of bad driving, and the proliferation of assault cars that do. Photo: Clarence Eckerson Jr.

Op-Ed: Skip the Victim-Blaming on Bike Lanes, New York Times!

By Michael King | Apr 9, 2020 | No Comments

Health columnist Jane Brody, usually a beacon of sense, gets city cycling badly wrong, a traffic expert says.

The Brooklyn-Queens Expressway in Brooklyn Heights. Photo: Patch

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Op-Ed: Imagining Downtown Brooklyn Without the BQE

By Michael King | Jan 9, 2020 | No Comments

Here's what Downtown Brooklyn could look like without the BQE and its ramps slicing through it.

Urbanist Michael King says that there should be more bollards like this. Opinions expressed by King are, of course, his, not necessarily Streetsblog's!

Op-Ed: Hey, Streetsblog, Bollards Everywhere Ain’t So Bad!

By Michael King | Oct 2, 2019 | 13 Comments

That said, they may not be the optimal solution.