Recent Streetsblog NYC posts about Pedestrian Infrastructure

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.”

Despite a city commitment last year, McGuinness Boulevard remains a speedway. Photo: Google

DOT Will Give Deadly McGuinness Boulevard Some Safety Fixes Before Full Redesign

By Dave Colon | Aug 31, 2022 | No Comments

The DOT is daylighting "select intersections" on McGuinness between Freeman Street and Meeker Avenue, blessing the intersections with either neckdowns or bike corrals.

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Can This Documentary Get Americans to Care About Pedestrian and Cyclist Deaths?

By Kea Wilson | Aug 25, 2022 | No Comments

A new documentary aims to tell the dramatic story of America's escalating pedestrian and cyclist death crisis — and hopefully, inspire non-advocates to get involved in the movement to end the epidemic.

The view south from Eighth Avenue and West 44th Street, where there are going to some ch-ch-changes. Photo: Dave Colon

Eighth Ave. Road Diet Marches North, But Community Wants ‘Concrete’ Plan

By Dave Colon | Aug 4, 2022 | No Comments

A Manhattan community board is generally supportive of a Department of Transportation plan to increase pedestrian space on Eighth Avenue while also narrowing the wild west roadway, but wants the agency to fully build out the changes with concrete, not just paint.

A DOT rendering shows the future plaza on Doyers Street. Image: DOT

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Chinatown’s Doyers Open Street to Become a Car-Free Plaza

By Eve Kessler | Jul 19, 2022 | No Comments

A street that is useless for motorists in a neighborhood with virtually no open space will finally get the treatment it, and its neighbors, deserve.

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Hoboken Eliminated Traffic Deaths For 4 Years — And Now It’s Ending Injuries, Too

By Kea Wilson | Jul 18, 2022 | No Comments

Frank Sinatra's hometown has a thing or two to teach its big time neighbor to the east about Vision Zero.

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