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Archive for Livable Streets
- July 2008
- 7/03:
Happy Independence Day
- June 2008
- 6/30:
¡Arriba Sevilla!
- 6/25:
Want a New Public Plaza in Your Neighborhood? Apply Now.
- May 2008
- 5/22:
Coming Soon: A Major Car-Free Event in NYC
- 5/19:
Eyes on the Street: Biking on the Brooklyn Waterfront Greenway
- 5/02:
Federal Complete Streets Legislation Gains Momentum
- 5/01:
Streetfilm: Lessons from L.A.
- April 2008
- 4/29:
Sadik-Khan Introduces the New York City Model
- 4/25:
Streetfilm: The Transformation of Meat Market Plaza
- 4/25:
Silver Challenger Paul Newell Campaigns on Livable Streets
- 4/24:
Eyes on the Street: Gansevoort Plaza Open for Business (Updated)
- 4/22:
How Paris is Beating Traffic Without Congestion Pricing
- 4/18:
Sadik-Khan: We're Putting the Square Back in Madison Square
- 4/15:
Après Congestion Pricing, It's Time to Look at the Paris Model
- 4/15:
In the Heights: City Aims to Make 181st a Complete Street
- 4/10:
Today the Périphérique. Tomorrow the FDR.
- 4/09:
Eyes on the Street: Get Ready for the New Gansevoort
- 4/08:
Plan B: Reallocating Street Space To Buses, Bikes & Peds
- March 2008
- 3/26:
Streetfilms: "Lounging on High" in Wodonga, Australia
- 3/18:
Envisioning a More Livable Columbus Avenue
- 3/13:
Could "Open Sundays" Help Solve Prince Problems?
- 3/12:
DOT Details Prince Street "Open Sundays" Project
- 3/07:
Mime Threat Overshadows Car-Free Prince Street Proposal
- February 2008
- 2/27:
A Conversation About New York Streets -- Get In Free
- 2/26:
StreetFilm: The Street Life of Havana
- 2/22:
Let's Chop Up Superblocks
- 2/15:
"Lock Box" Provides $39M for Livable Streets, Ferries, BRT
- 2/15:
City Planning: Fourth Avenue a "Missed Opportunity"
- 2/08:
Block Party NYC: Get Yourself a Block Grant
- 2/06:
New York Can Do Better Than the "New Fourth Avenue"
- 2/01:
Congestion Pricing Plan Includes a "Livable Streets Lock Box"
- January 2008
- 1/30:
Still Time to Submit Jane Jacobs Medal Nominees
- 1/24:
Next Monday: How You Can Transform New York City Streets
- 1/22:
Streetfilms: Street Star Christine Berthet
- 1/17:
Traffic Calming Animation of the Day: The Chicane
- 1/14:
Who Are You Nominating for the 2008 Jane Jacobs Medal?
- 1/11:
Hans Monderman: In Memoriam
- 1/08:
Hans Monderman, Engineer of Livable Streets, 1947-2008
- 1/08:
Street Memorial Riders Urge City Hall to Tame Traffic Now
- 1/02:
Is Barack Obama the Livable Streets Candidate?
- December 2007
- 12/17:
Janette Sadik-Khan: A Reason to Love NYC in 2007
- 12/14:
Running the Christmas Tree Gauntlet
- 12/10:
This Holiday Season London's Streets Are "Absolutely Jammed"
- 12/03:
Houston Street Gets Tree-mendous New Sidewalks
- November 2007
- 11/27:
The Trafficist: An Interview With Randy Cohen
- 11/21:
Happy Thanksgiving
- 11/13:
Crosstown Bike Lanes Remain in the Crosshairs
- 11/12:
DOT Rolls Out Fort Greene Bike Lanes & Traffic-Calming
- 11/12:
Congestion Pricing Will Make You Happy
- 11/12:
Nasty Newsrack Photo Contest Finalists
- 11/08:
Riding While Black or Just Riding?
- 11/08:
DOT Rolls Out the New Lower Manhattan Crosstown Bike Route
- 11/07:
Jan Gehl: Gridlocked Streets Are "Not a Law of Nature"
- 11/07:
StreetFilms: Upper West Side Streets Renaissance With Jan Gehl
- 11/06:
The Trafficist
- 11/06:
Upper West Side Renaissance on WNYC
- 11/06:
Envisioning an Upper West Side Streets Renaissance
- 11/06:
Tune in to Brian Lehrer at 10:40am, WNYC, 93.9 FM
- 11/05:
Gehl on Wheels
- 11/05:
Invisible Man
- 11/02:
"A Perverse Allocation of Public Space on the Upper West Side"
- October 2007
- 10/31:
Celebrating Livable Streets on the Day of the Dead
- 10/31:
RSVP Today to Re-Imagine Manhattan's Upper West Side
- 10/30:
Brooklyn's Myrtle Avenue Renaissance
- 10/25:
Bike Snob NYC Shows You How It's Done
- 10/22:
Bogotá's Peñalosa Talks Up Livable Streets, Sans Spandex
- 10/18:
Tykes on Bikes
- 10/17:
Illinois Adopts "Complete Streets" Into Law
- 10/15:
Indianapolis Paves the Way for Bikes and Pedestrians
- 10/08:
The World's Greenest, Most Livable Cities
- 10/04:
GAPCo Wins Design Trust Fellowship
- 10/04:
A Ride Down NYC's "Street of the Future"
- 10/03:
Doubts About DOT Congestion Prescription in Jax Heights
- 10/02:
Fresh Direct Responds to Environmental Critics
- September 2007
- 9/27:
Meat Market Plaza is Open for Business
- 9/27:
StreetFilms: LOOKing to Make Cycling Safer in NYC
- 9/24:
StreetFilms: Park(ing) Day 2007
- 9/21:
More Park(ing) Day Photos
- 9/21:
Upper West Side Livable Streets Advocates: Mark Your Calendar
- 9/21:
Myrtle Ave. Parking Spot Becomes a Park and Classroom
- 9/21:
Making the Case for Compact Development
- 9/21:
Why is There a Picnic in My Parking Spot?
- 9/18:
Seeing Myrtle Avenue With Fresh Eyes
- 9/14:
German Town Chooses Human Interaction Over Traffic Signals
- 9/13:
A Gehl Dispatch From Down Under
- 9/12:
DOT Launches Gehl Street Survey Project
- 9/10:
More Bike-Sharing Photos From Paris
- 9/04:
Take the NYC Neighborhood Quality of Life Survey
- 9/04:
Queens Pedestrian Safety Fixes Move Ahead Despite Opposition
- August 2007
- 8/31:
Happy Labor Day Weekend
- 8/31:
City Promises $5M in Ped Safety Improvements at Mural Opening
- 8/30:
Video: The Velib Project
- 8/29:
Brooklyn Traffic Calming Mural Unveiled
- 8/22:
Central Park 66th Street Transverse Is Unsafe
- 8/22:
Improved DOT Rolls Out Improved Web Site
- 8/20:
The Urban Transportation Report Card
- 8/15:
A Brooklyn Parking Lot Becomes a Neighborhood "Living Room"
- 8/15:
Car-Free Hours in Prospect Park? Fuhgeddaboutit!
- 8/14:
Video Shows Dangers of Upper East Side Bike Plan
- 8/13:
Tonight: Traffic-Calming Mural Preview & Fundraiser
- 8/10:
In the Shadow of the Queensboro Bridge
- 8/10:
City Launches "Public Plaza Initiative" at DUMBO Pocket Park
- 8/09:
Paint a Parking Lot, Put up a Paradise
- 8/06:
New Blog Focuses on Tearing Down the "Highway to Nowhere"
- 8/03:
Saturday Evening in Jackson Heights, Queens: Feel the Pain
- 8/03:
Grist: NYC is Not One of the World's Greenest Cities
- 8/02:
Melbourne, Australia After a Decade of Focus on Public Spaces
- 8/02:
Famed Danish Urbanist Jan Gehl in Town to Consult on PlaNYC
- 8/02:
Tonight: Park(ing) Day Planning Meeting
- 8/02:
Cool New Thing: What's Your Walk Score?
- July 2007
- 7/25:
Accidents Halved As Street is Stripped of 'Safety' Features
- 7/25:
Welcome to Davis, California: A Bicycle Friendly Town
- 7/24:
Microbuses and Bike Sharing: The New Parisian Street Scene
- 7/20:
Kids Demand Respect in the Streets of Brooklyn
- 7/19:
CB8 Shoots Down Upper East Side Crosstown Bike Route Plan
- 7/16:
A French Revolution: This One On Two Wheels, No Guillotine
- 7/12:
Construction of Piazza de Meatpacking is Underway
- 7/09:
It's Getting Better All the Time
- 7/06:
Mayor Speaks at Times Square Pricing Rally
- 7/06:
Push to Declutter England's Streets
- 7/05:
Ninth Street Earns Its Stripes
- 7/05:
Bike-Sharing in New York: Could It Happen Here?
- 7/05:
A Rising Bicycle Tide in Mexico City
- 7/05:
No Exit, Upper West Side Style
- 7/03:
Good Stuff in This Week's Mobilizing the Region
- 7/02:
Take Back the Streets, for the Kids
- June 2007
- 6/29:
No Love for One-Way Proposal in Jackson Heights
- 6/27:
Segway Users: The Other Minority
- 6/22:
New York Made Music
- 6/22:
StreetFilms: Make Music New York
- 6/22:
Meatpacking District Will Get a Makeover
- 6/21:
Shifting Gears at DOT
- 6/20:
Leave Your iPod at Home Tomorrow
- 6/19:
Jackson Heights: New Front in One-Way Battle
- 6/19:
Will the Revitalized High Bridge be Bike-Friendly?
- 6/18:
A Livable Streets Exhibition Opens in Brooklyn
- 6/14:
Brooklyn Community Board Supports DOT's 9th Street Plan
- 6/13:
Brainstorming a New Vision for Midtown's East River Waterfront
- 6/12:
New Bike Lanes Won't Leave Room for Escalade Double-Parking!
- 6/12:
Lappin Describes Her Position as "Similar to Gov. Spitzer's"
- 6/11:
Call for Ped Safety Measures on Third and Fourth Avenues
- 6/07:
Car-Free Sundays Return to the Bronx
- 6/06:
Ciclovia: Is NYC Ready?
- 6/06:
CB4 Votes Tonight on a Revised Hell's Kitchen
- 6/04:
Tour de Brooklyn: City is Considering Car-Free Central Park Trial
- May 2007
- 5/30:
StreetFilms: Turning Streets Into Community Spaces
- 5/30:
LA.Streetsblog: The Joy of Poor Circulation
- 5/30:
Motor Vehicles Leading Cause of NYC Child Injury Deaths
- 5/25:
Streetsblog Publisher Puts up $250K to Push PlaNYC
- 5/23:
In DUMBO a Parking Lot Will Become a Piazza
- 5/18:
T.A. Rides with the Mayors of Sydney & Copenhagen
- 5/18:
Battery Park City: An Opportunity for Innovative Street Design
- 5/17:
Pedestrians Fighting Over the Scraps
- 5/17:
The Car Habit Is Tough to Break
- 5/16:
The Clock is Ticking for PlaNYC
- 5/14:
PlanNYC's Public Political Push Starts Today
- 5/11:
PlaNYC Quietly Introduces "Safe Routes to Transit"
- 5/11:
Swerve and Protect: Boston's Bicycle Bible
- 5/10:
Where Do New York City Bike Commuters Come From?
- 5/10:
High-Emission Vehicles to Pay £200 ($400!) to Enter London
- 5/07:
Another Look at the WSJ Article on European Cycling
- 5/04:
Building a Better Bike Lane
- 5/03:
Londoners Take to the Streets -- on Cycles
- 5/03:
Are "Directional Miles of Bike Lanes" a Good Metric?
- 5/02:
This is How State Senator Eric Adams Celebrates Bike Month?
- 5/02:
When Streets Are for People
- 5/01:
New York Magazine Casts a Cynical Eye on "Bloomtopia"
- April 2007
- 4/26:
Is Walking PlaNYC's Missing Mode?
- 4/26:
Ken Livingstone on Congestion Pricing in New York
- 4/26:
Fun With Numbers (Or: The PlaNYC Index)
- 4/25:
Media (Mostly) Give PlaNYC Its Due
- 4/25:
Streetfilms: Little Legs for Green Streets
- 4/23:
Will City Council Override Mayor's Pedicab-Bill Veto?
- 4/23:
How Green Is Our Mayor
- 4/21:
StreetFilm: Talking Transportation with Bob Kiley
- 4/20:
Roosevelt Island Residents Want Pedestrian Access to QBB
- 4/20:
The Ultimate System: Free Mass Transit and Congestion Pricing
- 4/20:
Decongestion in Cities Around the World
- 4/19:
Grand Plans for Brooklyn's Iconic Public Space
- 4/18:
Bicycle Advocacy TV Ads from the Netherlands
- 4/18:
Bus Bulbs Are Blooming
- 4/16:
Eyes on the Street: Horse Lane?
- 4/12:
CB2 Committee Approves "Additional" Prince/Bleecker Routes
- 4/09:
Pedestrian Safety: London Shows How NYC Can Do Better
- 4/06:
Primeggia's One-Way Safety Claims Are Based on 1970s Studies
- 4/02:
StreetFilm: Room to Breathe
- March 2007
- 3/29:
A Community Workshop to Re-envision Grand Army Plaza
- 3/29:
StreetFilms: Reclaiming Grand Army Plaza
- 3/27:
A Livable Streets Discussion and Happy Hour
- 3/20:
Mayor Bloomberg at the Crossroads: Who Will Run DOT?
- 3/19:
Things Heating Up Over at UncivilServants.org
- 3/19:
Park Slope says: "One Way? No Way." CB6 says: "Let's Study It."
- 3/13:
Parking Permit Abusers Being Cleared from Chinatown?
- 3/09:
Report from Atlanta: Don't Walk This Way
- 3/08:
Feds Withhold Fatal-Accident Info from Public
- 3/06:
StreetFilms: "Something Has to Be Done"
- 3/05:
Why Is DOT Reorganizing Park Slope Traffic? Because.
- 3/05:
Commissioner Weinshall Agrees: Two-Way Streets Calm Traffic
- 3/05:
3 More Killed This Weekend as 100 Rally for Pedestrian Safety
- 3/05:
Old Gray Lady Gets on the Bandwagon
- February 2007
- 2/28:
DOT's Plan for Park Slope Traffic "Improvements" Confirmed
- 2/28:
DOT to Propose Radical New Traffic Plan for Park Slope
- 2/26:
3 Peds Hit on 9th Ave. 2 Dead. Mayor Mike: Where Are You?
- 2/23:
Street Films: Intersection Intervention
- 2/23:
The Times Applauds Cycling... The Times of London, That Is.
- 2/22:
Mayor Livingstone Extends Congestion Charge Westward
- 2/22:
Help us Find Livable Streets Blogs in Cities Outside NYC
- 2/22:
How to Improve Travel Times and Transit Capacity?
- 2/20:
PlanNYC 2030: What makes a Community Sustainable?
- 2/16:
PBS to America: Fight Global Warming, Drive an SUV
- 2/15:
Visualizing a Car-Free Bedford Avenue
- 2/15:
Living Near Shops and Transit Makes New Yorkers Less Fat
- 2/14:
Four-Year-Old Killed by Hummer Shouldn't Have Died in Vain
- 2/12:
Crack Down on Drivers, Not iPods
- 2/12:
The Seed of a Revolution in Red Hook
- 2/09:
StreetFilms: "A City Is a Means to a Way of Life"
- 2/09:
The Subway Should Be Free
- 2/08:
DOT: "Our Job is to Keep Traffic Moving, Not Pedestrian Safety"
- 2/06:
Paris Set for Invasion of Self-Service Bicycles
- 2/02:
StreetFilms: An Interview with Sam Schwartz
- 2/02:
Eyes on the Street: Grim, Immovable
- 2/01:
Calming Traffic in Chinatown
- January 2007
- 1/29:
The City That Never Walks
- 1/11:
Public Health and Livable Streets: Making the Connection
- 1/11:
Bicoastal Garbage Disposal Practices
- 1/03:
Day Two: Ten Things for Governor Spitzer to Fix
- December 2006
- 12/31:
Setting the Agenda on Pedestrian Safety
- 12/18:
Holiday Book Recommendations Open Thread
- 12/14:
Streetfilms: Curbing Cars in Soho
- 12/14:
Rethinking Soho
- 12/01:
Sidewalk Parking Opponents Gain Ground in . . . Where?
- November 2006
- 11/30:
Detailed Reports on 135 Safe Routes to School Plans
- 11/30:
Safe Routes to Schools Study Complete
- 11/17:
Transit-Oriented Development in Jersey City
- 11/09:
Traffic: A Social Problem Not a Design Problem
- 11/07:
If a 26.2-mile, Half-Day Street Closure Generates $188M...
- 11/03:
Slow News Day?
- 11/01:
San Fran Mayor Sets Ambitious Transportation Targets
- October 2006
- 10/27:
Life on Crutches in NYC
- 10/26:
Downtown Brooklyn Traffic Calming Project: Ten Years On
- 10/26:
Street Hockey: The New Stickball?
- 10/25:
MTA Response to Pokey: Traffic Congestion = "Vibrancy"
- 10/24:
Tomorrow: Protest Rally in Response to Atlantic Avenue Carnage
- 10/19:
Streetfilms: Car-Free Bedford Avenue
- 10/06:
Creating Great Public Spaces in New York City
- 10/03:
Traffic's Human Toll
- 10/02:
Pricing for Sustainability
- September 2006
- 9/28:
Learning From a Streets Renaissance in Hong Kong
- 9/28:
Above the Law: Parking Permit Abuse Study Released
- 9/27:
Another Model: Berkeley's Bicycle Boulevard Network
- 9/26:
Urban Density and a Pocketbook Plea for Congestion Pricing
- 9/26:
The Queensboro Meat Grinder
- 9/25:
More Park(ing) Photos From San Fran
- 9/25:
Street Films: Park(ing) Day San Francisco
- 9/19:
Stockholm Voters Approve Congestion Charging
- 9/18:
Street Renaissance Antics on Atlantic Avenue
- 9/14:
Streetsblog Interview: Ryan Russo
- 9/14:
The Three Big Bicyclist Fatality Clusters
- 9/12:
Specific Commitments From the City on Bike Safety
- 9/12:
City Announces Major Bike Safety Improvement Initiative
- 9/11:
Binghamton Revitalizing Around Livable Downtown
- 9/08:
Doctoroff: Congestion is a Major Problem. Time to Act.
- 9/08:
Street Films: Hell's Kitchen Miracle Ticket
- 9/08:
Sound Familiar?
- 9/07:
NYPD Parking Abuse Scandal Widens
- 9/01:
The Cost of Free Residential Parking
- 9/01:
Car Alarm Ruins Otherwise Excellent Meal
- August 2006
- 8/28:
The Suburbanization of NYC's Waterfront
- 8/25:
Rally for Houston Street Buffered Bike Lanes
- 8/24:
Street Film: The Transformation of Willoughby Street
- 8/23:
Pedestrian Safety Competition at the Jersey Shore
- 8/21:
Where in the City is this?
- 8/18:
Street Films: Car-Free Sunday on the Grand Concourse
- 8/16:
Bloomberg Working on Livable Legacy
- 8/15:
Chinatown Business Group Proposes Car-Free Streets
- 8/14:
Brooklyn's Fort Greene Fights for Livable Streets
- 8/11:
Traffic Continues to Disappear in Paris
- 8/10:
Budnick Talks Transpo on NY1
- 8/07:
Poll: NYC Blames Bloomberg for Failure to Deal With Traffic
- 8/07:
Eyes on the Street: Friday, August 4, 2006
- 8/02:
Mayor Bloomberg Says NYC Traffic Congestion is Good.
- 8/01:
No Thongs on the Pompidou Expressway! Tomorrow the F.D.R.?
- July 2006
- 7/28:
Speed Bumps
- 7/28:
DOT Revs Up its "Alternative Modes" Department
- 7/27:
Inebriated Columnist Issues Fatwa Against Kamikaze Jerks
- 7/26:
Gridlock in Williamsburg
- 7/25:
Houston Street Redesign: The $30 Million Missed Opportunity
- 7/25:
Revisiting Houston Street, One Month Later
- 7/20:
City Council Screening of "Contested Streets"
- 7/20:
Hugh Hardy: Architect Calls for Fresh Take on Public Life
- 7/19:
A Traffic-Free Future for Harlem
- 7/17:
Traffic Engineering by Body Count
- 7/13:
Film Scout Parking Permits Rescinded
- June 2006
- 6/29:
Other Cities' Mayors on Bicycling
- 6/29:
Eyes on the Street: Brooklyn Bridge, Thurs. June 29, 8:45 am
- 6/28:
Jane Jacobs Tribute Tonight
- 6/28:
StreetsBlog Interview: Stefan Schaefer
- 6/28:
New Film Fires up Faithful in Manhattan Debut
- 6/19:
Untangling Traffic: Bloomberg's Forgotten Promise
- 6/14:
Why Only One Museum Mile?
- November 2005
- 11/10:
Billyburg bike bandits strike again
- October 2005
- 10/14:
Making NYC's Streets Safe for Hydrants & Pay Phones