Comments on: Our Parks Are Secure. What About Our Streets? http://www.streetsblog.org/2009/10/30/our-parks-are-secure-what-about-our-streets/ Covering the New York City Streets Renaissance Mon, 15 Mar 2010 03:26:24 -0500 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8 hourly 1 By: JK http://www.streetsblog.org/2009/10/30/our-parks-are-secure-what-about-our-streets/comment-page-1/#comment-146501 JK Mon, 02 Nov 2009 16:59:29 +0000 http://www.streetsblog.org/?p=81411#comment-146501 Yes, it will take many decades for the DOT to remake the city's big streets. The Times Square, Herald Square and Broadway reclamations are great, but they are extremely unrepresentative of 99% of the arterial street network. The powerful Midtown BIDs have worked with the community board and DOT for more than a decade to make pedestrian improvements. These favorable political conditions are few and far between, and DOT and its livable streets allies will have enormous amounts of work to fundamentally change the nature of streets like Queens Boulevard, Atlantic Avenue or Linden Boulevard or Flatbush Avenue --- to name a few of the biggest, scariest streets to walk or bicycle on. New York City is huge. Manhattan south of 60th street, though high profile, is a tiny part of it. Yes, it will take many decades for the DOT to remake the city's big streets. The Times Square, Herald Square and Broadway reclamations are great, but they are extremely unrepresentative of 99% of the arterial street network. The powerful Midtown BIDs have worked with the community board and DOT for more than a decade to make pedestrian improvements. These favorable political conditions are few and far between, and DOT and its livable streets allies will have enormous amounts of work to fundamentally change the nature of streets like Queens Boulevard, Atlantic Avenue or Linden Boulevard or Flatbush Avenue --- to name a few of the biggest, scariest streets to walk or bicycle on. New York City is huge. Manhattan south of 60th street, though high profile, is a tiny part of it.

]]> By: gecko http://www.streetsblog.org/2009/10/30/our-parks-are-secure-what-about-our-streets/comment-page-1/#comment-146231 gecko Sat, 31 Oct 2009 20:49:45 +0000 http://www.streetsblog.org/?p=81411#comment-146231 Not really clear why it will take decades for NYC DoT to re-engineer the city's big streets for cyclists and pedestrians. The Times Square realignment was put in effect virtually overnight as well as the accommodation to one-half million cyclists during the last transit strike. Any resource allocations even moderately on par with those made available to conventional large vehicle transit and automobiles will likely result in immediate dramatic very positive change. Not really clear why it will take decades for NYC DoT to re-engineer the city's big streets for cyclists and pedestrians.

The Times Square realignment was put in effect virtually overnight as well as the accommodation to one-half million cyclists during the last transit strike.

Any resource allocations even moderately on par with those made available to conventional large vehicle transit and automobiles will likely result in immediate dramatic very positive change.

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