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Calming Traffic in Chinatown
With all the talk about high level personnel changes at the DOT, let's take it back to the streets for a minute, shall we? As we have already noted, Chinatown has gotten a buffered bike lane on Grand Street, which is fantastic, and would be even more fantastic if it wasn't treated as a car parking lane. But that is not the only recent change to the Chinatown streetscape.
February 1, 2007
New Bike Lanes and Markings for the Lower East Side
DOT just finished striping new bike lanes and stencils along Grand Street on Manhattan's Lower East Side:
November 29, 2006
Signs of Crooked Pedestrian Priorities
A pedestrian crossing sign slants over the middle of Fourth Avenue in Brooklyn, meant to remind drivers that human beings may try to cross the seven lanes of moving traffic on foot. It is little comfort to the pedestrians standing exposed on the 2 foot wide median noticing that the sign was recently run into.
August 30, 2006
Chinatown Business Group Proposes Car-Free Streets
Bayard Street, Chinatown. Photo: SkyShaper
August 15, 2006
Daily News Busts Govt Employee Valet Parking Racket
Triple-parked cars of government employees in front of the "The Tombs" in Lower Manhattan
August 8, 2006
Parking Management Workshop – Canal Street
Wednesday, July 12, 2006
5:00 pm - 8:00 pm
Parking Management Workshop - Canal St Corridor, Manhattan
NYMTC, 199 Water St, New York
Contact: Charles Sutter
Call: 914.813.7761
July 12, 2006
The $46 Million Parking Perk
Illegally parked government employees are subtracting $46 million a year in potential parking fees from New York City's coffers, according to a new study by transportation consultant Bruce Schaller. Eliminating government employees parking perks would not only generate revenue for the city it would also help reduce traffic congestion.
June 16, 2006
Patriots Park on Sidewalks
Oil Drum points to a recent spike in motorist insanity on Staten Island this week: A retired Port Authority cop out with his wife, pulls in to a strip mall to pick up some Chinese food. An ex-NYPD detective jumps out of his car and guns the guy down in a barrage of 17 bullets. Why? He had been driving too slowly. Add to that, a crash on the Brooklyn-bound side of the Verrazano backing up traffic for miles and a car plowing into the front of a house, and it's just another day in Shaolin.
April 11, 2006