Recent Streetsblog NYC posts about Pedestrian Infrastructure

Department of Transportation Commissioner Hank Gutman, moments before getting annoyed at a Streetsblog reporter. Photo: Dave Colon

STREETS WEEK! DOT Commish Diagnoses Conduit Boulevard, Then Prescribes The Wrong Treatment

By Dave Colon | May 10, 2021 | No Comments

As Streets Week! begins, here's an existential question that Mayor de Blasio doesn't like to answer: Why does New York even have roads like Conduit Boulevard?

Biking on the so-called dead end path below the Hudson River Greenway south of Dyckman Street. A more than mile long section of the Hudson River Greenway will be closed for repairs starting at the end of the year. Connecting the dead-end path to the Little Red Lighthouse below the GWB could provide an alternative route, activists say. Photo: Eve Kessler

Manhattan Panel Backs Henry Hudson Parkway Bike Lane

By Eve Kessler | Apr 28, 2021 | No Comments

Getting to the Empire State Trail from the Hudson River Greenway is quite the climb! Could a bike lane be the answer — and to a greenway closure, too?

Urban highway: Third Avenue in Manhattan. Photo: Gersh Kuntzman

Campaign Seeks To Fix Manhattan’s Third Avenue Traffic Toilet

By Dave Colon | Apr 27, 2021 | No Comments

A petition covers the portion of Third Avenue between 24th and 42nd streets.

Scott Stringer think the New York City summer could use more of this.

Stringer Summer Plan: Expanded Open Streets and More Open Fire Hydrants

By Dave Colon | Apr 8, 2021 | No Comments

Comptroller and mayoral candidate Scott Stringer wants city funding for open streets and more splashing around in front of fire hydrants — the latest plank of his platform to give every New Yorker a summer to remember.

Mayoral candidate Andrew Yang pn Vanderbilt Ave. on Saturday.

Yang Calls For Permanent Open Streets Program With City Funding

By Dave Colon | Apr 4, 2021 | No Comments

The mayoral candidate said he would direct city funding to a permanent open streets program, a priority for open streets volunteers who need help to keep the popular program humming.

STREETSBLOG USA

CARS, CARS, CARS? Inside Biden’s Infrastructure Package

By Kea Wilson | Mar 31, 2021 | No Comments

President Biden revealed details about his transformative new infrastructure package today, but sustainable transportation advocates are already questioning how much it will actually transform our national addiction to cars.

Show More Stories