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DOT Rolls Out Fort Greene Bike Lanes & Traffic-Calming
Via Brownstoner, the Department of Transportation is building out a nice street redesign project in Brooklyn right now as a part of its Ft. Greene Bike Lane & Traffic Calming Project (download a project description here). Formerly a 70-foot-wide one-way street, Carlton Avenue, above, has been converted to two-way operation with five-foot bike lanes on either side. DOT is now building a 20-foot wide planted median in the middle. The Carlton Ave. improvements are similar to recent projects on Park Slope's 9th Street and Vanderbilt Ave. in Prospect Heights.
November 12, 2007
Envisioning an Upper West Side Streets Renaissance
If you're thinking about coming to tonight's Upper West Side workshop with Jan Gehl but you are having trouble picturing what a "Streets Renaissance" might look like, the video above was made for you. It consists of a series of photo simulations produced by New York City Streets Renaissance Creative Director Carly Clark.
November 6, 2007
Ped Struck as Cab Runs Into Storefront at 53rd and Madison
David Dartley sends this in: Perhaps it’s just as well that I only had the crappy camera on my cell phone and you can’t see much detail. A taxi had smashed into a storefront on Madison Ave. just above 53rd St. On the other side of a taxi, there was a person lying face-down on … Continued
November 1, 2007
Tearing Up the Streets, and Pants
A bicyclist in Amsterdam: "Dignified, civilized, unhurried and even elegant..."
November 1, 2007
Indianapolis Paves the Way for Bikes and Pedestrians
Construction is underway on what may be the nation's most advanced urban greenway system.
October 15, 2007
T.A. Responds to ‘Keep NYC Congestion’ Plan
Media release from Transportation Alternatives:
October 12, 2007
34th Precinct Promises Action on Broadway and Dongan
This spiffy new illuminated bus stop shelter replaces another destroyed by a motorist at Broadway and Dongan Place, near the border of Inwood and Washington Heights.
September 27, 2007