http://www.streetsblog.org/2009/07/09/seventh-graders-picture-a-safer-livelier-school-zone/ Covering the New York City Streets Renaissance Mon, 23 Nov 2009 05:31:30 -0500 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8 hourly 1 http://www.streetsblog.org/2009/07/09/seventh-graders-picture-a-safer-livelier-school-zone/comment-page-1/#comment-119081 Johan S Wed, 16 Sep 2009 05:45:04 +0000 http://www.streetsblog.org/?p=8161#comment-119081 Great success story for sharing with other classrooms! Really cool to see what students are capable of creating when we give them the opportunity. From what I've read on Sustainability education - encouraging future visioning is a critical component in effective and empowering ed - and you guys have pulled it off - in vivid colour! Thank you for sharing this and keep up the great work. Great success story for sharing with other classrooms! Really cool to see what students are capable of creating when we give them the opportunity. From what I've read on Sustainability education - encouraging future visioning is a critical component in effective and empowering ed - and you guys have pulled it off - in vivid colour! Thank you for sharing this and keep up the great work.

]]> http://www.streetsblog.org/2009/07/09/seventh-graders-picture-a-safer-livelier-school-zone/comment-page-1/#comment-80371 Erin Fri, 10 Jul 2009 14:52:08 +0000 http://www.streetsblog.org/?p=8161#comment-80371 Right. I love these drawings and their ideas, but the article does hint at the process by which these were made. There seem to have been groups called "bus lane group" and "bike lane group"; both bus lanes and bike lanes are used rather infrequently around the city (bike lanes have become more prevalent, yes). That alone steers the conversation and the end result in a certain direction. Nevertheless, these are some great ideas, and not just the bike/bus lanes. The street & sidewalk treatments are wonderful too. Fun pavements, places to sit, jovial street furnishings. I wish. In reality, it's pretty hard to get the city to embrace anything that isn't standard... although these kids may be in luck. Beautiful streets with slightly less non-standard design solutions are more likely to happen in the UWS than in South/Central/Outer Brooklyn, non-LIC Queens, the Bronx, S.I., etc... Right. I love these drawings and their ideas, but the article does hint at the process by which these were made. There seem to have been groups called "bus lane group" and "bike lane group"; both bus lanes and bike lanes are used rather infrequently around the city (bike lanes have become more prevalent, yes). That alone steers the conversation and the end result in a certain direction. Nevertheless, these are some great ideas, and not just the bike/bus lanes. The street & sidewalk treatments are wonderful too. Fun pavements, places to sit, jovial street furnishings. I wish. In reality, it's pretty hard to get the city to embrace anything that isn't standard... although these kids may be in luck. Beautiful streets with slightly less non-standard design solutions are more likely to happen in the UWS than in South/Central/Outer Brooklyn, non-LIC Queens, the Bronx, S.I., etc...

]]> http://www.streetsblog.org/2009/07/09/seventh-graders-picture-a-safer-livelier-school-zone/comment-page-1/#comment-80341 Kenney Fri, 10 Jul 2009 14:34:10 +0000 http://www.streetsblog.org/?p=8161#comment-80341 Seventh graders led by Janette Sadik-Khan! Seventh graders led by Janette Sadik-Khan!

]]> http://www.streetsblog.org/2009/07/09/seventh-graders-picture-a-safer-livelier-school-zone/comment-page-1/#comment-80221 Eric McClure Fri, 10 Jul 2009 03:16:26 +0000 http://www.streetsblog.org/?p=8161#comment-80221 Is there any doubt that we'd be far better off if we replaced the Department of City Planning with 7th graders? Is there any doubt that we'd be far better off if we replaced the Department of City Planning with 7th graders?

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