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Tour de Brooklyn: City is Considering Car-Free Central Park Trial
New York City Transportation Commissioner Janette Sadik-Khan enjoys a lighter moment with Brooklyn Borough President Marty Markowitz as Noah Budnick of Transportation Alternatives welcomes cyclists to the 2007 Tour de Brooklyn.
June 4, 2007
LA.Streetsblog: The Joy of Poor Circulation
Every week, KCRW radio's Marc Porter Zasada sets out to fathom Los Angeles on his show The Urban Man. This week he talks about neighborhoods, how fragile they are and how easily they can be lost to bad traffic engineering:
May 30, 2007
Motor Vehicles Leading Cause of NYC Child Injury Deaths
According to a new study out from the city's Department of Health, children in New York are seven times less likely than children nationwide to die as car passengers. That's the good news, likely the result of the fact that our kids spend a lot less time in cars than most American children.
May 30, 2007
A Portland Neighborhood Reclaims its Streets
Streetfilms' Clarence Eckerson was in Portland recently where he caught up with a neighborhood "Intersection Repair" project.
May 25, 2007
Streetsblog Publisher Puts up $250K to Push PlaNYC
Mark Gorton, founder and executive director of the Open Planning Project, the publisher of Streetsblog, has agreed to match up to $250,000 in donations to a Transportation Alternatives campaign promoting Mayor Bloomberg's PlaNYC 2030. Today's Crain's Insider reports:
May 25, 2007
In DUMBO a Parking Lot Will Become a Piazza
The Department of Transportation has unveiled plans to turn the gritty Pearl Street Triangle in DUMBO into a public plaza. The plaza will be similar to the one DOT creaed on Willoughby Street in Downtown Brooklyn last year. The Triangle currently serves as a parking lot.
May 23, 2007
Battery Park City: An Opportunity for Innovative Street Design
A "woonerf" or "shared space" street design in the Dutch town of Haren.
May 18, 2007