StreetsBlog Authors: Brad Aaron

Recent posts by Brad Aaron:

• May 13, 2008

  Streetfilm: The Diverter

   From Streetfilms' animation division comes the third installment of traffic-calming shorts from Elizabeth Press. First she brought you chicanes, then the raised crosswalk. Now comes the diverter, which Elizabeth explains like so:Diagonal diverters, half closures, entrance barriers, median barriers, semi-diverters; traffic calming techniques come in all shapes and sizes. They can help create more livable communities. As [...]
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• May 13, 2008

  Bus Rapid Transit Under Fire in Delhi, India

  As a new class of automobile owners floods the streets of India with cheap cars, the city of Delhi is trying to stem the tide with a new Bus Rapid Transit program. Unfortunately, along with the cars has come the requisite sense of entitlement and modal prejudice, as EMBARQ reports: This last week Delhi began a [...]
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• May 13, 2008

  Got a Cycling Question for DOT? Ask Josh Benson.

  Getting in on the Bike Month action, City Room has DOT bike program coordinator Josh Benson answering reader questions this week. As of this writing, over 100 comments have come in since the thread opened yesterday afternoon. While many concern the usual stuff -- cars encroaching into bike lanes, problems finding secure parking, etc. -- [...]
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• May 13, 2008

  Today’s Headlines

  City Motorists Contemplate $5/Gal Gas; Many Turn to Transit (Post, News)Assembly Republican Jim Tedisco Takes Gas Tax "Fight" Online Bike-Share Coming to Convention Host Cities (USA Today)DOT Bike Coordinator Takes Questions (City Room)Staten Islanders Talk Cycling Safety (SI Advance) Vehicular Cycling Advocate Blames Lanes for Fatalities (BikePortland) Bloomberg and Schumer Spar Over West Side Development (Crain's, AMNY) [...]
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• May 9, 2008

  Streetfilm: Snackin’ and Schwaggin’ in Queens

  Community board intransigence aside, cyclists abound in Queens, where Transportation Alternatives set up shop this week to hand out Bike Month snacks and schwag to commuters coming off the Queensborough Bridge. Streetfilms' Clarence Eckerson was there.
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• May 9, 2008

  Beam Me Across the Street, Scotty

   From online mag Yanko Design comes a wacked out concept in pedestrian safety: The Virtual Wall provides a barrier made up of plasma laser beams depicting pedestrians doing what they do best and any car that crosses that barrier suffers the consequences. Okay so maybe those lasers aren't powerful enough to do any harm but the [...]
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• May 9, 2008

  CB2 Chairman Punts Queens Greenway Vote Over Loss of Parking

  From Transportation Alternatives' Queens Committee Chair Mike Heffron: At the Queens Community Board 2 general meeting on Thursday, May 1, with no vote by board members, Chair Joe Conley delayed the board's input on the Department of Transportation's planned pedestrian and cyclist improvements to Vernon Boulevard, an important link in the proposed Queens East [...]
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• May 8, 2008

  How Happy Are Parisians With Vélib?

    The latest figures from the Paris Vélib bike sharing program are in. User stats and survey results are posted on the official web site, but for those who don't parlez Français, here's a summary:Rides to date: 20 millionAverage trips/day: 70,000Average trip time: 18 minutes190,000 annual pass holders42% of users are females1/3 of users come from [...]
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• May 8, 2008

  Streetfilm: City Officials Talk Up Bike Month

  In contrast -- or, conceivably, as a complement -- to the L.A. Times portrait of city cycling, here's a Streetfilm from Elizabeth Press, shot yesterday at Transportation Alternatives' Bike Month NYC kick-off. At a press conference held in the new 14th Street plaza, DOT Commissioner Janette Sadik-Khan talks about present and future street-level improvements, Parks [...]
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• May 8, 2008

  New York Cycling, as Seen From L.A.

   According to city statistics, over the last seven years the number of cyclists on New York streets has risen by 75 percent. With increased investments in infrastructure, overseen by a new, pro-cycling DOT commissioner, the city hopes to double the number of riders by 2015. Of course, obstacles remain. As reported in a Los Angeles Times [...]
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