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Archive for Livable Streets

July 2008
7/03: Happy Independence Day 7
June 2008
6/30: ¡Arriba Sevilla! 9
6/25: Want a New Public Plaza in Your Neighborhood? Apply Now. 0
May 2008
5/22: Coming Soon: A Major Car-Free Event in NYC 13
5/19: Eyes on the Street: Biking on the Brooklyn Waterfront Greenway 5
5/02: Federal Complete Streets Legislation Gains Momentum 5
5/01: Streetfilm: Lessons from L.A. 1
April 2008
4/29: Sadik-Khan Introduces the New York City Model 13
4/25: Streetfilm: The Transformation of Meat Market Plaza 11
4/25: Silver Challenger Paul Newell Campaigns on Livable Streets 15
4/24: Eyes on the Street: Gansevoort Plaza Open for Business (Updated) 36
4/22: How Paris is Beating Traffic Without Congestion Pricing 29
4/18: Sadik-Khan: We're Putting the Square Back in Madison Square 15
4/15: Après Congestion Pricing, It's Time to Look at the Paris Model 19
4/15: In the Heights: City Aims to Make 181st a Complete Street 16
4/10: Today the Périphérique. Tomorrow the FDR. 3
4/09: Eyes on the Street: Get Ready for the New Gansevoort 21
4/08: Plan B: Reallocating Street Space To Buses, Bikes & Peds 7
March 2008
3/26: Streetfilms: "Lounging on High" in Wodonga, Australia 2
3/18: Envisioning a More Livable Columbus Avenue 8
3/13: Could "Open Sundays" Help Solve Prince Problems? 10
3/12: DOT Details Prince Street "Open Sundays" Project 24
3/07: Mime Threat Overshadows Car-Free Prince Street Proposal 79
February 2008
2/27: A Conversation About New York Streets -- Get In Free 0
2/26: StreetFilm: The Street Life of Havana 40
2/22: Let's Chop Up Superblocks 21
2/15: "Lock Box" Provides $39M for Livable Streets, Ferries, BRT 13
2/15: City Planning: Fourth Avenue a "Missed Opportunity" 28
2/08: Block Party NYC: Get Yourself a Block Grant 1
2/06: New York Can Do Better Than the "New Fourth Avenue" 38
2/01: Congestion Pricing Plan Includes a "Livable Streets Lock Box" 54
January 2008
1/30: Still Time to Submit Jane Jacobs Medal Nominees 1
1/24: Next Monday: How You Can Transform New York City Streets 7
1/22: Streetfilms: Street Star Christine Berthet 1
1/17: Traffic Calming Animation of the Day: The Chicane 15
1/14: Who Are You Nominating for the 2008 Jane Jacobs Medal? 7
1/11: Hans Monderman: In Memoriam 0
1/08: Hans Monderman, Engineer of Livable Streets, 1947-2008 5
1/08: Street Memorial Riders Urge City Hall to Tame Traffic Now 41
1/02: Is Barack Obama the Livable Streets Candidate? 19
December 2007
12/17: Janette Sadik-Khan: A Reason to Love NYC in 2007 9
12/14: Running the Christmas Tree Gauntlet 19
12/10: This Holiday Season London's Streets Are "Absolutely Jammed" 25
12/03: Houston Street Gets Tree-mendous New Sidewalks 15
November 2007
11/27: The Trafficist: An Interview With Randy Cohen 12
11/21: Happy Thanksgiving 10
11/13: Crosstown Bike Lanes Remain in the Crosshairs 16
11/12: DOT Rolls Out Fort Greene Bike Lanes & Traffic-Calming 12
11/12: Congestion Pricing Will Make You Happy 14
11/12: Nasty Newsrack Photo Contest Finalists 18
11/08: Riding While Black or Just Riding? 5
11/08: DOT Rolls Out the New Lower Manhattan Crosstown Bike Route 6
11/07: Jan Gehl: Gridlocked Streets Are "Not a Law of Nature" 8
11/07: StreetFilms: Upper West Side Streets Renaissance With Jan Gehl 9
11/06: The Trafficist 4
11/06: Upper West Side Renaissance on WNYC 3
11/06: Envisioning an Upper West Side Streets Renaissance 37
11/06: Tune in to Brian Lehrer at 10:40am, WNYC, 93.9 FM 5
11/05: Gehl on Wheels 9
11/05: Invisible Man 17
11/02: "A Perverse Allocation of Public Space on the Upper West Side" 2
October 2007
10/31: Celebrating Livable Streets on the Day of the Dead 8
10/31: RSVP Today to Re-Imagine Manhattan's Upper West Side 2
10/30: Brooklyn's Myrtle Avenue Renaissance 1
10/25: Bike Snob NYC Shows You How It's Done 15
10/22: Bogotá's Peñalosa Talks Up Livable Streets, Sans Spandex 3
10/18: Tykes on Bikes 1
10/17: Illinois Adopts "Complete Streets" Into Law 8
10/15: Indianapolis Paves the Way for Bikes and Pedestrians 26
10/08: The World's Greenest, Most Livable Cities 9
10/04: GAPCo Wins Design Trust Fellowship 0
10/04: A Ride Down NYC's "Street of the Future" 35
10/03: Doubts About DOT Congestion Prescription in Jax Heights 1
10/02: Fresh Direct Responds to Environmental Critics 35
September 2007
9/27: Meat Market Plaza is Open for Business 7
9/27: StreetFilms: LOOKing to Make Cycling Safer in NYC 4
9/24: StreetFilms: Park(ing) Day 2007 8
9/21: More Park(ing) Day Photos 4
9/21: Upper West Side Livable Streets Advocates: Mark Your Calendar 18
9/21: Myrtle Ave. Parking Spot Becomes a Park and Classroom 4
9/21: Making the Case for Compact Development 8
9/21: Why is There a Picnic in My Parking Spot? 12
9/18: Seeing Myrtle Avenue With Fresh Eyes 6
9/14: German Town Chooses Human Interaction Over Traffic Signals 8
9/13: A Gehl Dispatch From Down Under 2
9/12: DOT Launches Gehl Street Survey Project 12
9/10: More Bike-Sharing Photos From Paris 2
9/04: Take the NYC Neighborhood Quality of Life Survey 0
9/04: Queens Pedestrian Safety Fixes Move Ahead Despite Opposition 0
August 2007
8/31: Happy Labor Day Weekend 6
8/31: City Promises $5M in Ped Safety Improvements at Mural Opening 13
8/30: Video: The Velib Project 14
8/29: Brooklyn Traffic Calming Mural Unveiled 5
8/22: Central Park 66th Street Transverse Is Unsafe 11
8/22: Improved DOT Rolls Out Improved Web Site 13
8/20: The Urban Transportation Report Card 7
8/15: A Brooklyn Parking Lot Becomes a Neighborhood "Living Room" 5
8/15: Car-Free Hours in Prospect Park? Fuhgeddaboutit! 33
8/14: Video Shows Dangers of Upper East Side Bike Plan 50
8/13: Tonight: Traffic-Calming Mural Preview & Fundraiser 3
8/10: In the Shadow of the Queensboro Bridge 10
8/10: City Launches "Public Plaza Initiative" at DUMBO Pocket Park 21
8/09: Paint a Parking Lot, Put up a Paradise 1
8/06: New Blog Focuses on Tearing Down the "Highway to Nowhere" 7
8/03: Saturday Evening in Jackson Heights, Queens: Feel the Pain 44
8/03: Grist: NYC is Not One of the World's Greenest Cities 55
8/02: Melbourne, Australia After a Decade of Focus on Public Spaces 12
8/02: Famed Danish Urbanist Jan Gehl in Town to Consult on PlaNYC 8
8/02: Tonight: Park(ing) Day Planning Meeting 0
8/02: Cool New Thing: What's Your Walk Score? 30
July 2007
7/25: Accidents Halved As Street is Stripped of 'Safety' Features 13
7/25: Welcome to Davis, California: A Bicycle Friendly Town 3
7/24: Microbuses and Bike Sharing: The New Parisian Street Scene 11
7/20: Kids Demand Respect in the Streets of Brooklyn 5
7/19: CB8 Shoots Down Upper East Side Crosstown Bike Route Plan 38
7/16: A French Revolution: This One On Two Wheels, No Guillotine 1
7/12: Construction of Piazza de Meatpacking is Underway 3
7/09: It's Getting Better All the Time 1
7/06: Mayor Speaks at Times Square Pricing Rally 4
7/06: Push to Declutter England's Streets 3
7/05: Ninth Street Earns Its Stripes 19
7/05: Bike-Sharing in New York: Could It Happen Here? 6
7/05: A Rising Bicycle Tide in Mexico City 4
7/05: No Exit, Upper West Side Style 12
7/03: Good Stuff in This Week's Mobilizing the Region 7
7/02: Take Back the Streets, for the Kids 1
June 2007
6/29: No Love for One-Way Proposal in Jackson Heights 7
6/27: Segway Users: The Other Minority 66
6/22: New York Made Music 1
6/22: StreetFilms: Make Music New York 0
6/22: Meatpacking District Will Get a Makeover 9
6/21: Shifting Gears at DOT 3
6/20: Leave Your iPod at Home Tomorrow 1
6/19: Jackson Heights: New Front in One-Way Battle 9
6/19: Will the Revitalized High Bridge be Bike-Friendly? 42
6/18: A Livable Streets Exhibition Opens in Brooklyn 1
6/14: Brooklyn Community Board Supports DOT's 9th Street Plan 0
6/13: Brainstorming a New Vision for Midtown's East River Waterfront 13
6/12: New Bike Lanes Won't Leave Room for Escalade Double-Parking! 0
6/12: Lappin Describes Her Position as "Similar to Gov. Spitzer's" 0
6/11: Call for Ped Safety Measures on Third and Fourth Avenues 1
6/07: Car-Free Sundays Return to the Bronx 4
6/06: Ciclovia: Is NYC Ready? 15
6/06: CB4 Votes Tonight on a Revised Hell's Kitchen 4
6/04: Tour de Brooklyn: City is Considering Car-Free Central Park Trial 5
May 2007
5/30: StreetFilms: Turning Streets Into Community Spaces 11
5/30: LA.Streetsblog: The Joy of Poor Circulation 6
5/30: Motor Vehicles Leading Cause of NYC Child Injury Deaths 0
5/25: Streetsblog Publisher Puts up $250K to Push PlaNYC 3
5/23: In DUMBO a Parking Lot Will Become a Piazza 2
5/18: T.A. Rides with the Mayors of Sydney & Copenhagen 2
5/18: Battery Park City: An Opportunity for Innovative Street Design 6
5/17: Pedestrians Fighting Over the Scraps 9
5/17: The Car Habit Is Tough to Break 20
5/16: The Clock is Ticking for PlaNYC 1
5/14: PlanNYC's Public Political Push Starts Today 1
5/11: PlaNYC Quietly Introduces "Safe Routes to Transit" 3
5/11: Swerve and Protect: Boston's Bicycle Bible 12
5/10: Where Do New York City Bike Commuters Come From? 15
5/10: High-Emission Vehicles to Pay £200 ($400!) to Enter London 4
5/07: Another Look at the WSJ Article on European Cycling 1
5/04: Building a Better Bike Lane 30
5/03: Londoners Take to the Streets -- on Cycles 4
5/03: Are "Directional Miles of Bike Lanes" a Good Metric? 32
5/02: This is How State Senator Eric Adams Celebrates Bike Month? 29
5/02: When Streets Are for People 7
5/01: New York Magazine Casts a Cynical Eye on "Bloomtopia" 23
April 2007
4/26: Is Walking PlaNYC's Missing Mode? 3
4/26: Ken Livingstone on Congestion Pricing in New York 7
4/26: Fun With Numbers (Or: The PlaNYC Index) 1
4/25: Media (Mostly) Give PlaNYC Its Due 8
4/25: Streetfilms: Little Legs for Green Streets 0
4/23: Will City Council Override Mayor's Pedicab-Bill Veto? 2
4/23: How Green Is Our Mayor 44
4/21: StreetFilm: Talking Transportation with Bob Kiley 0
4/20: Roosevelt Island Residents Want Pedestrian Access to QBB 4
4/20: The Ultimate System: Free Mass Transit and Congestion Pricing 15
4/20: Decongestion in Cities Around the World 1
4/19: Grand Plans for Brooklyn's Iconic Public Space 7
4/18: Bicycle Advocacy TV Ads from the Netherlands 11
4/18: Bus Bulbs Are Blooming 15
4/16: Eyes on the Street: Horse Lane? 2
4/12: CB2 Committee Approves "Additional" Prince/Bleecker Routes 3
4/09: Pedestrian Safety: London Shows How NYC Can Do Better 8
4/06: Primeggia's One-Way Safety Claims Are Based on 1970s Studies 3
4/02: StreetFilm: Room to Breathe 6
March 2007
3/29: A Community Workshop to Re-envision Grand Army Plaza 0
3/29: StreetFilms: Reclaiming Grand Army Plaza 0
3/27: A Livable Streets Discussion and Happy Hour 3
3/20: Mayor Bloomberg at the Crossroads: Who Will Run DOT? 13
3/19: Things Heating Up Over at UncivilServants.org 14
3/19: Park Slope says: "One Way? No Way." CB6 says: "Let's Study It." 9
3/13: Parking Permit Abusers Being Cleared from Chinatown? 3
3/09: Report from Atlanta: Don't Walk This Way 23
3/08: Feds Withhold Fatal-Accident Info from Public 5
3/06: StreetFilms: "Something Has to Be Done" 0
3/05: Why Is DOT Reorganizing Park Slope Traffic? Because. 7
3/05: Commissioner Weinshall Agrees: Two-Way Streets Calm Traffic 0
3/05: 3 More Killed This Weekend as 100 Rally for Pedestrian Safety 26
3/05: Old Gray Lady Gets on the Bandwagon 5
February 2007
2/28: DOT's Plan for Park Slope Traffic "Improvements" Confirmed 1
2/28: DOT to Propose Radical New Traffic Plan for Park Slope 105
2/26: 3 Peds Hit on 9th Ave. 2 Dead. Mayor Mike: Where Are You? 5
2/23: Street Films: Intersection Intervention 1
2/23: The Times Applauds Cycling... The Times of London, That Is. 7
2/22: Mayor Livingstone Extends Congestion Charge Westward 6
2/22: Help us Find Livable Streets Blogs in Cities Outside NYC 28
2/22: How to Improve Travel Times and Transit Capacity? 31
2/20: PlanNYC 2030: What makes a Community Sustainable? 4
2/16: PBS to America: Fight Global Warming, Drive an SUV 11
2/15: Visualizing a Car-Free Bedford Avenue 41
2/15: Living Near Shops and Transit Makes New Yorkers Less Fat 12
2/14: Four-Year-Old Killed by Hummer Shouldn't Have Died in Vain 32
2/12: Crack Down on Drivers, Not iPods 11
2/12: The Seed of a Revolution in Red Hook 6
2/09: StreetFilms: "A City Is a Means to a Way of Life" 0
2/09: The Subway Should Be Free 32
2/08: DOT: "Our Job is to Keep Traffic Moving, Not Pedestrian Safety" 12
2/06: Paris Set for Invasion of Self-Service Bicycles 14
2/02: StreetFilms: An Interview with Sam Schwartz 0
2/02: Eyes on the Street: Grim, Immovable 9
2/01: Calming Traffic in Chinatown 20
January 2007
1/29: The City That Never Walks 22
1/11: Public Health and Livable Streets: Making the Connection 5
1/11: Bicoastal Garbage Disposal Practices 11
1/03: Day Two: Ten Things for Governor Spitzer to Fix 21
December 2006
12/31: Setting the Agenda on Pedestrian Safety 29
12/18: Holiday Book Recommendations Open Thread 15
12/14: Streetfilms: Curbing Cars in Soho 6
12/14: Rethinking Soho 47
12/01: Sidewalk Parking Opponents Gain Ground in . . . Where? 10
November 2006
11/30: Detailed Reports on 135 Safe Routes to School Plans 8
11/30: Safe Routes to Schools Study Complete 4
11/17: Transit-Oriented Development in Jersey City 7
11/09: Traffic: A Social Problem Not a Design Problem 17
11/07: If a 26.2-mile, Half-Day Street Closure Generates $188M... 1
11/03: Slow News Day? 4
11/01: San Fran Mayor Sets Ambitious Transportation Targets 5
October 2006
10/27: Life on Crutches in NYC 3
10/26: Downtown Brooklyn Traffic Calming Project: Ten Years On 5
10/26: Street Hockey: The New Stickball? 3
10/25: MTA Response to Pokey: Traffic Congestion = "Vibrancy" 10
10/24: Tomorrow: Protest Rally in Response to Atlantic Avenue Carnage 1
10/19: Streetfilms: Car-Free Bedford Avenue 2
10/06: Creating Great Public Spaces in New York City 0
10/03: Traffic's Human Toll 0
10/02: Pricing for Sustainability 6
September 2006
9/28: Learning From a Streets Renaissance in Hong Kong 9
9/28: Above the Law: Parking Permit Abuse Study Released 5
9/27: Another Model: Berkeley's Bicycle Boulevard Network 12
9/26: Urban Density and a Pocketbook Plea for Congestion Pricing 17
9/26: The Queensboro Meat Grinder 6
9/25: More Park(ing) Photos From San Fran 1
9/25: Street Films: Park(ing) Day San Francisco 0
9/19: Stockholm Voters Approve Congestion Charging 3
9/18: Street Renaissance Antics on Atlantic Avenue 2
9/14: Streetsblog Interview: Ryan Russo 10
9/14: The Three Big Bicyclist Fatality Clusters 7
9/12: Specific Commitments From the City on Bike Safety 15
9/12: City Announces Major Bike Safety Improvement Initiative 14
9/11: Binghamton Revitalizing Around Livable Downtown 0
9/08: Doctoroff: Congestion is a Major Problem. Time to Act. 21
9/08: Street Films: Hell's Kitchen Miracle Ticket 6
9/08: Sound Familiar? 3
9/07: NYPD Parking Abuse Scandal Widens 65
9/01: The Cost of Free Residential Parking 11
9/01: Car Alarm Ruins Otherwise Excellent Meal 8
August 2006
8/28: The Suburbanization of NYC's Waterfront 12
8/25: Rally for Houston Street Buffered Bike Lanes 3
8/24: Street Film: The Transformation of Willoughby Street 10
8/23: Pedestrian Safety Competition at the Jersey Shore 1
8/21: Where in the City is this? 13
8/18: Street Films: Car-Free Sunday on the Grand Concourse 0
8/16: Bloomberg Working on Livable Legacy 10
8/15: Chinatown Business Group Proposes Car-Free Streets 7
8/14: Brooklyn's Fort Greene Fights for Livable Streets 3
8/11: Traffic Continues to Disappear in Paris 2
8/10: Budnick Talks Transpo on NY1 3
8/07: Poll: NYC Blames Bloomberg for Failure to Deal With Traffic 10
8/07: Eyes on the Street: Friday, August 4, 2006 3
8/02: Mayor Bloomberg Says NYC Traffic Congestion is Good. 16
8/01: No Thongs on the Pompidou Expressway! Tomorrow the F.D.R.? 3
July 2006
7/28: Speed Bumps 2
7/28: DOT Revs Up its "Alternative Modes" Department 5
7/27: Inebriated Columnist Issues Fatwa Against Kamikaze Jerks 14
7/26: Gridlock in Williamsburg 0
7/25: Houston Street Redesign: The $30 Million Missed Opportunity 4
7/25: Revisiting Houston Street, One Month Later 0
7/20: City Council Screening of "Contested Streets" 0
7/20: Hugh Hardy: Architect Calls for Fresh Take on Public Life 9
7/19: A Traffic-Free Future for Harlem 8
7/17: Traffic Engineering by Body Count 2
7/13: Film Scout Parking Permits Rescinded 3
June 2006
6/29: Other Cities' Mayors on Bicycling 4
6/29: Eyes on the Street: Brooklyn Bridge, Thurs. June 29, 8:45 am 0
6/28: Jane Jacobs Tribute Tonight 1
6/28: StreetsBlog Interview: Stefan Schaefer 1
6/28: New Film Fires up Faithful in Manhattan Debut 0
6/19: Untangling Traffic: Bloomberg's Forgotten Promise 0
6/14: Why Only One Museum Mile? 1
November 2005
11/10: Billyburg bike bandits strike again 5
October 2005
10/14: Making NYC's Streets Safe for Hydrants & Pay Phones 18