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Emergency Rally for Pedestrian Safety: Sunday, March 4, 3pm:
Demand that Mayor Bloomberg take action (or, at the very least, that he say something) before another New Yorker is unnecessarily run over and killed by a motor vehicle.
March 2, 2007
Quick, Someone Get Me a Shovel
Last week, we saw the sorry condition of the new on-street bike route in Times Square and thought to ourselves how much better things would be if only bikes had some truly protected turf in the Crossroads of the World. Alas, just a half-mile south, our idealistic thoughts were quashed by this depressing visage:
February 20, 2007
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
Homemade Traffic Calming in Mexico’s Yucatan
From Wired Magazine co-founder Kevin Kelly’s web site Throughout Mexico “topes” or speed bumps, are ubiquitous. These can be metal pods arrayed across the road, or asphalt humps, or even significant concrete wedges. You really do have to slow down, and almost stop to crawl over them. There is usually a sign warning they are … Continued
January 17, 2007
Bicoastal Garbage Disposal Practices
Via a Streetsblog tipster: In Valley Village, Calif., near L.A., people leave their trash in the bike lane for the convenience of the sanitation crews.
January 11, 2007
New Places to Double Park on Upper West Side
Staying on the cars-parked-in-bike-lanes theme...
December 20, 2006
Eyes on the Street: Horrific Ped Fatality in Bklyn Hts This AM
From a Streetsblog tipster:
December 13, 2006