Recent Streetsblog NYC posts about Traffic Calming

Gateway treatments made with paint and signs haven't been enough to prevent reduce traffic injuries in NYC's neighborhood slow zones. Photo: Noah Kazis

London’s Slow Zones Save Lives and New York’s Don’t. Here’s Why.

By David Meyer | Jun 13, 2018 | 51 Comments

In New York's slow zones, speed humps are the only physical traffic calming measure. London uses a greater variety of traffic calming measures, installed more intensively.

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20 MPH Speed Limits Might Become the New Normal in Scotland

By Angie Schmitt | May 16, 2018

The "20's Plenty" movement may be on the verge of a new milestone.

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Orlando, the Capital of Pedestrian Fatalities, Tests a New Approach to Street Design

By Angie Schmitt | Mar 19, 2018

Walking in Orlando is deadlier than in any other major city in the nation. But the city's new transportation director is a reformer.

A whole lotta extra asphalt at Bergen and Court. Photo: Tom DeVito

Sneckdowns 2018: Bomb Sneckdowns

By Ben Fried | Jan 5, 2018 | 1 Comment

Clarence put out the call for sneckdown pictures while winter storm Grayson was still bomb cycloning through the region, and Streetfilms tweeps did not disappoint.

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St. Louis Calms Traffic With Heavy Concrete Globes

By Angie Schmitt | Jan 4, 2018

They're cheap. They get the job done. And residents wanted them.

The plan calls for a road diet on about 50 blocks of Amsterdam Avenue in Upper Manhattan. Image: DOT

Manhattan CB 9 Transpo Chair Insists Car Lanes, Not Safety, Should Come First on Amsterdam Avenue

By David Meyer | Dec 8, 2017 | 10 Comments

DOT watered down a standard road diet to appease Community Board 9, but transportation chair Carolyn Thompson still didn't allow a vote on the project.

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