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Eyes on the Street: Bigger Sidewalk, Shorter Crossing at Riverside and 116th
A tipster sent this photo of the sidewalk expansion underway at the corner of Riverside Drive and W. 116th Street in Manhattan. (It's one of the elements in a DOT safety plan for Riverside that survived after the agency watered down the project at the behest of Community Board 9.)
June 17, 2016
3 Graphs That Explain Why 20 MPH Should Be the Limit on City Streets
Speed kills, especially on city streets teeming with pedestrians and cyclists.
May 31, 2016
Sneckdowns: The Comic Strip
Clarence Eckerson, Jr. is not the only talented Eckerson in New York. There's one more winter storm expected to hit the city this weekend, and Gary Eckerson of Bay Ridge (Clarence's brother), has six panels in anticipation of the occasion. Enjoy.
March 18, 2016
DOT’s Meeker Ave Safety Project Gets — You Guessed It — Meeker
DOT has watered down its safety plan for the area around Meeker, Union, and Metropolitan avenues. And for the second time in as many meetings, Brooklyn Community Board 1’s transportation committee could not make quorum last night to vote on the project.
February 24, 2016
Eyes on the Street: DIY School Zone Traffic-Calming in Corona
Today Transportation Alternatives staff and members of Families for Safe Streets are in Albany, asking legislators to allow NYC to install speed enforcement cameras near every school in the city. This example of a crossing guard's efforts to defend school kids in Queens, courtesy of Streetfilms' Clarence Eckerson Jr., is another good illustration of why the state should lift arbitrary enforcement restrictions.
February 9, 2016
The DIY Sneckdown and Other Snow-Based Traffic Calming
The Department of Sanitation said yesterday that the city is finally working to clear bike lanes of snow and ice. But five days after Jonas moved on, there's still plenty of slippery, slushy stuff where people walk and bike on New York City streets.
January 28, 2016
Who’s Up for Sneckdowns?
With Blizzard Mania '16 reaching a fever pitch up and down the Eastern Seaboard, it looks like we're in for the first serious sneckdowns of the season.
January 22, 2016
DOT’s Astoria Park Safety Plan Calls for 3 Protected Bike Lanes
Last June, a hit-and-run driver killed 21-year-old Betty DiBiaso at the intersection of 19th Street and Ditmars Boulevard, next to Astoria Park. The loss of DiBiaso prompted a neighborhood-wide discussion about the need to improve street safety around one of Queens’ most visited parks, and on Tuesday night DOT showed Queens Community Board 2 its proposals for the area [PDF].
January 21, 2016
Eyes on the Street: Just Another Brush With Death at a Typical NYC Crossing
The design of 29th Street and 39th Avenue in Long Island City is typical of thousands of New York City crossings: an intersection of relatively narrow streets where drivers are allowed to park to the edge of crosswalks with no design elements to force motorists to slow down.
January 8, 2016