Streetsblog stories from Pedestrian safety

August 2008

Thu 28: Inwoodites Promised Rehab of Dilapidated 215th Step-Street 5

Tue 26: In Week of Carnage, Times Looks Askance at Broadway Traffic-Calming 20

Wed 20: Leaving Cars Behind, Seniors Find Streets Inhospitable 6

Tue 19: Eyes on the Street: A Walk Down Broadway Boulevard 36

Mon 18: Does Summer Streets Need a "Fast Lane"? 59

Mon 4: DOT Takes Steps to Improve Ped Safety Near Park Avenue Tunnel 28

July 2008

Thu 24: Making Safer Intersections the Rule, Not the Exception 7

Wed 23: Robert Novak Cited in Possible Hit-and-Run 13

Fri 18: Streetfilms: What's an LPI? 13

Wed 9: DC Defends Livable Streets Improvements as WaPo Declares "War" 10

Mon 7: T.A. Offers Reward for Park Slope "Post-Automobile Street" Designs 10

June 2008

Mon 23: No Place Safe For Pedestrians Amid Rash of Sidewalk Crashes 7

Mon 16: Obama: I'll Boost Funds for Bike-Ped Projects If Elected 10

Wed 4: Streetfilms: The Transformation of Grand Army Plaza 17

Mon 2: Eyes on the Street: A Refuge on Vanderbilt 34

May 2008

Thu 29: CB 3 Supports DOT's Manhattan Bridge Proposal 13

Thu 22: SE Prospect Park Re-Design Includes Some Restrictions on Cars 7

Tue 20: Eyes on the Street: Bike Boxes on (Brooklyn's) Broadway 11

Mon 19: DOT to Hold Woodhaven Boulevard Forum Tonight 4

Mon 19: Turn Out Tonight for a Ped-Friendly Prospect Park 0

Wed 14: DOT to Present Manhattan Bridge Plans to CB 3 Tonight 10

Wed 14: Today's Carnage Brought to You By... 2

Mon 12: Eyes on the Street: A Death-Defying Walk to Prospect Park 15

Fri 9: Beam Me Across the Street, Scotty 26

Mon 5: Feds Launch New Pedestrian Safety Program 8

April 2008

Mon 28: Survey Finds New Yorkers Anxious About Congestion and Safety 13

Fri 25: Streetfilm: The Transformation of Meat Market Plaza 11

Fri 25: Pedestrian Killed By Truck Near Brooklyn Bridge 20

Thu 24: Eyes on the Street: Gansevoort Plaza Open for Business (Updated) 36

Tue 15: In the Heights: City Aims to Make 181st a Complete Street 16

Wed 9: Eyes on the Street: Get Ready for the New Gansevoort 21

Tue 8: Plan B: Reallocating Street Space To Buses, Bikes & Peds 7

March 2008

Tue 25: Citizens Hammer NYPD Commissioner Kelly on Street Safety 13

Fri 14: It's No Accident: Bike-Ped Safety Bill Clears Council 9

Mon 10: New Bill Would Bring Crash Studies and Safety Improvements 0

Wed 5: Iowa's Senator Harkin Introduces "Complete Streets Act" 11

Wed 5: Meeting Tonight on Beseiged Plan to Calm NYU Campus 5

Sat 1: Bike Shorts 5: Short Films About the Bike 0

February 2008

Thu 28: Flatbush and Atlantic: Hellacious, Deadly, Likely to Get Worse 28

Thu 21: The New DOT is Still Using the Old Measuring Stick 10

Fri 15: Citizens Propose Cycle Track Greenway Connector in Inwood 29

Thu 14: Truck Driver Charged for Killing Two Pedestrians 16

Wed 13: StreetFilm: Raising the Walk 12

Thu 7: Refused by His City, Man Jailed for Painting a Crosswalk 31

Mon 4: Streetfilm: Barnes Dance! 23

Fri 1: A "Vision Zero" for New York? 3

January 2008

Tue 29: City Numbers Show Highest Cyclist Death Toll in Eight Years 28

Fri 25: Proof That Congestion Pricing Supporters Do Exist in Queens 15

Thu 24: Testify! Public Hearings on Congestion Pricing Tonight 7

Tue 22: Streetfilms: Street Star Christine Berthet 1

Fri 18: StreetFilm: Crosswalks #1 27

Fri 18: Bloomberg Touches on Safe Streets, Pricing in State of the City 5

Thu 17: Traffic Calming Animation of the Day: The Chicane 15

Tue 15: The Battle for Britain's Roads 9

Mon 14: Nano Technology 10

Tue 8: At P.S. 161 in Harlem the Sidewalk is the Parking Lot 8

Tue 8: Street Memorial Riders Urge City Hall to Tame Traffic Now 41

Mon 7: StreetFilm: The Street Memorial Project 2

Fri 4: A Year After Eric Ng's Death, Greenway Hazards Remain Unfixed 42

December 2007

Mon 17: City Pedestrian Crossings Are Discriminatory by Design 13

Fri 14: What Makes a Place Walkable? 10

Tue 11: New Grand Army Plaza Concept is "Brilliantly Obvious" 16

Tue 11: Manhattan Bridge Bike & Ped Improvements Nearing Completion 19

Tue 4: One Intersection, Two Injured Pedestrians, One Summons 0

Tue 4: Crashstat 2.0 Reveals NYC’S Most Dangerous Intersections 9

Mon 3: Houston Street Gets Tree-mendous New Sidewalks 15

Mon 3: This is the Pedestrian Refuge Area That CB8 Refused to Protect 41

November 2007

Thu 29: For Victim's Family, a $10 Fee and an Agonizing Wait 0

Tue 27: The Trafficist: An Interview With Randy Cohen 12

Mon 26: New Refuge Islands for Bronx Pedestrians & Bus Riders 9

Fri 16: Morgenthau & NYPD Are "Dismissive" of Ped Fatality Questions 20

Mon 12: DOT Rolls Out Fort Greene Bike Lanes & Traffic-Calming 12

Fri 9: Pedestrians Fight Back in Athens, Greece 4

Thu 8: Rally at City Hall for Pedestrian Safety Legislation, 12:45 Today 2

Thu 1: Ped Struck as Cab Runs Into Storefront at 53rd and Madison 18

October 2007

Tue 30: Brooklyn's Myrtle Avenue Renaissance 1

Fri 26: Since It's Halloween, Watch for Kids When Driving 0

Mon 22: Bogotá's Peñalosa Talks Up Livable Streets, Sans Spandex 3

Thu 18: Cabbie Mistakes East River Park Bike Path for Highway 19

Wed 17: Illinois Adopts "Complete Streets" Into Law 8

Mon 8: Renewed Calls for Ped Safety Summit as Death Toll Mounts 5

Thu 4: Memorials Held for Thomson and Miller 0

Wed 3: Doubts About DOT Congestion Prescription in Jax Heights 1

Tue 2: Vehicular Homicide Charge in Thomson Death 12

Tue 2: DOT Minds the GAP 9

Mon 1: Two Traffic Fatalities: One a Homicide, the Other an "Accident" 34

September 2007

Thu 27: Meat Market Plaza is Open for Business 7

Thu 27: 34th Precinct Promises Action on Broadway and Dongan 0

Tue 25: Lappin Law Would Fine Bike Delivery Employers 17

Thu 20: Inwoodites Want Changes at Deadly Broadway Intersection 5

Fri 14: German Town Chooses Human Interaction Over Traffic Signals 8

Tue 11: Parallel Parking for Sociopaths 10

Tue 4: Safety City: Where Cars Rule! 15

Tue 4: Infinite Jest 4

Tue 4: Last Weekend of Summer Marked by Child's Death 0

Tue 4: Queens Pedestrian Safety Fixes Move Ahead Despite Opposition 0

August 2007

Fri 31: City Promises $5M in Ped Safety Improvements at Mural Opening 13

Wed 29: Brooklyn Traffic Calming Mural Unveiled 5

Tue 28: Queens Leaders Fight Safety Fixes for Fatal School Crossing 25

Mon 27: Bike & Ped Improvements Slated for Manhattan Bridge Approach 18

Mon 20: The Urban Transportation Report Card 7

Fri 17: Pay Phones May Be a Bad Call for City 14

Wed 15: Car-Free Hours in Prospect Park? Fuhgeddaboutit! 33

Tue 14: Video Shows Dangers of Upper East Side Bike Plan 50

Tue 14: The Cars That Ate New York 0

Mon 13: Tonight: Traffic-Calming Mural Preview & Fundraiser 3

Mon 13: Commish Benepe Gently Reminds "Parkies" to Drive Safely 5

Tue 7: What if Terrorists Killed as Many as Die in U.S. Car Crashes? 8

Wed 1: Fear and Loathing on the Upper East Side 17

Wed 1: Meatpacking Plaza Update 3

July 2007

Tue 31: A Solution to Stroller Rage 48

Wed 25: Accidents Halved As Street is Stripped of 'Safety' Features 13

Wed 25: Ninth Ave. and 14th Street Redesign Update 0

Fri 20: Kids Demand Respect in the Streets of Brooklyn 5

Thu 19: CB8 Shoots Down Upper East Side Crosstown Bike Route Plan 38

Fri 13: More Meatpacking Plaza Construction Photos 1

Thu 12: Construction of Piazza de Meatpacking is Underway 3

Mon 9: It's Getting Better All the Time 1

Fri 6: Push to Declutter England's Streets 3

Thu 5: No Exit, Upper West Side Style 12

Tue 3: Good Stuff in This Week's Mobilizing the Region 7

Tue 3: One's Inner SUV Driver 24

Mon 2: Rage on the Bikeway 28

Mon 2: Take Back the Streets, for the Kids 1

June 2007

Fri 29: No Love for One-Way Proposal in Jackson Heights 7

Wed 27: Segway Users: The Other Minority 70

Fri 22: Meatpacking District Will Get a Makeover 9

Thu 21: Shifting Gears at DOT 3

Thu 21: "Modal Bias" on Brian Lehrer Today at 11:20 am 18

Mon 18: A Livable Streets Exhibition Opens in Brooklyn 1

Thu 14: Brooklyn Community Board Supports DOT's 9th Street Plan 0

Mon 11: Call for Ped Safety Measures on Third and Fourth Avenues 1

Fri 8: Eyes on the Street: A Historic Sidewalk Widening in Williamsburg 2

Fri 8: 96th St. Subway Station and Sidewalk Reduction Moving Ahead 3

Thu 7: Car-Free Sundays Return to the Bronx 4

May 2007

Wed 30: StreetFilms: Turning Streets Into Community Spaces 11

Wed 30: LA.Streetsblog: The Joy of Poor Circulation 6

Wed 30: Motor Vehicles Leading Cause of NYC Child Injury Deaths 0

Wed 30: The 'Burbs: Extremely Safe or Especially Dangerous? 12

Tue 29: Eyes on the Street: Transit Workers on Parade 1

Fri 25: A Portland Neighborhood Reclaims its Streets 2

Thu 24: London's Trafalgar Square Goes Green... Literally. 5

Thu 24: Blind Spots in SUVs Still Killing Kids 0

Wed 23: In DUMBO a Parking Lot Will Become a Piazza 2

Tue 22: To Some it's a Park, to Others, a Parking Lot 27

Fri 18: Battery Park City: An Opportunity for Innovative Street Design 6

Fri 18: CB6 Committee Unanimously Approves 9th St. Project 12

Thu 17: Time to Expand DOT's Toolbox Beyond Signs and Signals? 15

Thu 17: 9th Street Road Diet Meeting Tonight 2

Thu 17: Pedestrians Fighting Over the Scraps 9

Thu 17: The Car Habit Is Tough to Break 20

Wed 16: Aug. '05 Flashback: 1,200 Slopers Demand a Safer 9th Street 5

Fri 11: Double-Parking in a Bike Lane? There Isn't Even a Check Box. 4

Fri 11: PlaNYC Quietly Introduces "Safe Routes to Transit" 3

Tue 8: Ninth Street Update: Robert's Rules of Order 24

Mon 7: Choose Your Own Hells Kitchen 4

Fri 4: DOT: One-Way Park Slope Proposal is Dead 0

Wed 2: This is How State Senator Eric Adams Celebrates Bike Month? 29

April 2007

Fri 27: Tell Marty Markowitz You Support DOT's 9th Street Plan 6

Thu 26: Is Walking PlaNYC's Missing Mode? 3

Sat 21: StreetFilm: Talking Transportation with Bob Kiley 0

Thu 19: Visions of a Grander Grand Army Plaza 1

Thu 19: Grand Plans for Brooklyn's Iconic Public Space 7

Wed 18: SoHo Car Owners Mobilizing to Save Parking, Fight Bike Lanes 19

Wed 18: Are Phone Booths on Ninth Avenue a Pedestrian Menace? 0

Tue 17: City and State Pedestrian Safety Numbers Don't Add Up 3

Mon 16: More 9th Street Residents Weigh In on DOT's Plan 0

Fri 13: DOT Called Out for Lacking Clear Ped Safety Plan 1

Thu 12: CB2 Committee Approves "Additional" Prince/Bleecker Routes 3

Wed 11: DOT's 9th Street Plan: Frequently Asked Questions 8

Wed 11: Who Opposes A Plan for Safer, More Livable Streets and Why? 9

Tue 10: The Plan: Making Brooklyn's 9th Street Safer for Everyone 0

Tue 10: Updated Version of DOT's 9th Street Plan 9

Tue 10: Take a Minute to Fax in Your Support for DOT's 9th Street Plan 0

Mon 9: Pedestrian Safety: London Shows How NYC Can Do Better 8

Fri 6: Primeggia's One-Way Safety Claims Are Based on 1970s Studies 3

Wed 4: Study: Sidewalks Can't Handle Transit Traffic 8

Tue 3: Pedestrian and Bike Improvements Coming to Grand Army Plaza 36

Mon 2: Pedestrian Safety: The National Picture 2

March 2007

Fri 30: Why Can't I Go the Wrong Way on a One Way Street? 0

Thu 29: Vanderbilt Avenue: The Model for DOT's 9th Street Proposal? 12

Thu 29: A Tale of Two DOT Plans 2

Thu 29: A Community Workshop to Re-envision Grand Army Plaza 0

Thu 29: StreetFilms: Reclaiming Grand Army Plaza 0

Wed 28: Eyes on the Street: Grand Army Plaza, Brooklyn 12

Tue 27: Important Meeting for Livable Streets Advocates 5

Thu 22: Studies Refute DOT's Claim That One-Way Avenues Are Safer 5

Mon 19: Park Slope says: "One Way? No Way." CB6 says: "Let's Study It." 9

Fri 16: Coverage of Last Night's Park Slope Meeting 18

Fri 16: Brooklyn to City Hall: Give us Planning Not Traffic Engineering 23

Wed 14: StreetFilms: One Way is the Wrong Way 10

Tue 13: DOT's Park Slope Proposal: Is this Atlantic Yards Planning? 6

Mon 12: One Way? No Way. Send a Message to City Hall. 1

Mon 12: Insta-Bus Rapid Transit for Lower Manhattan 1

Fri 9: Report from Atlanta: Don't Walk This Way 23

Thu 8: Brooklyn to Bloomberg: Include Local Stakeholders in Planning 22

Wed 7: DOT's Park Slope Plan Requires Community Board Support 12

Tue 6: StreetFilms: "Something Has to Be Done" 0

Mon 5: Why Is DOT Reorganizing Park Slope Traffic? Because. 7

Mon 5: Commissioner Weinshall Agrees: Two-Way Streets Calm Traffic 0

Mon 5: 3 More Killed This Weekend as 100 Rally for Pedestrian Safety 26

Mon 5: Old Gray Lady Gets on the Bandwagon 5

Fri 2: Emergency Rally for Pedestrian Safety: Sunday, March 4, 3pm: 11

Fri 2: The Iris Weinshall Legacy: Queens Boulevard 6

February 2007

Wed 28: DOT's Plan for Park Slope Traffic "Improvements" Confirmed 1

Wed 28: DOT to Propose Radical New Traffic Plan for Park Slope 105

Mon 26: 3 Peds Hit on 9th Ave. 2 Dead. Mayor Mike: Where Are You? 5

Fri 23: Streetfilms: Intersection Intervention 1

Wed 21: Why Wasn't Traffic-Calming Built on Third Avenue? 2

Mon 19: DOT Pledged Ped Safety Fixes by 2006 on Deadly Third Ave 16

Fri 16: Traffic, Pedestrian Fatalities Rise in New Jersey 0

Wed 14: 2006 Pedestrian Fatality Numbers from DOT 6

Wed 14: NYC Pedestrian Fatalities Up in 2006? 10

Wed 14: Four-Year-Old Killed by Hummer Shouldn't Have Died in Vain 32

Tue 13: Paris Approves Plan to Reduce Traffic by 40% by 2020 7

Mon 12: Crack Down on Drivers, Not iPods 11

Mon 12: The Seed of a Revolution in Red Hook 6

Mon 12: A Guilty Motorist Turns Himself In 0

Thu 8: DOT: "Our Job is to Keep Traffic Moving, Not Pedestrian Safety" 12

Wed 7: $100 Fine for Crossing the Street and Talking on the Phone 50

Wed 7: Disgruntled Drivers Responsible for UK Letter Bombs? 13

Fri 2: StreetFilms: An Interview with Sam Schwartz 0

January 2007

Wed 17: Homemade Traffic Calming in Mexico's Yucatan 13

Mon 15: Celerant CEO Ian Goldman Celebrated in the Wall Street Journal 19

Mon 15: Does Vehicular Chaos Push Families Out of NYC? 10

Wed 10: Making Hell's Kitchen Less Hellish 20

Wed 10: New Traffic Island Makes News, Takes a Beating 20

Thu 4: Streetscape Aesthetics vs. Pedestrian Safety 32

December 2006

Sun 31: Setting the Agenda on Pedestrian Safety 29

Tue 19: Chicago Cracks Down on Drivers Who Threaten Pedestrians 10

Wed 13: Pedestrian Safety in Brooklyn Heights 0

Wed 13: Eyes on the Street: Horrific Ped Fatality in Bklyn Hts This AM 3

Fri 1: Safe Routes to Schools: Yesterday's Press Event 3

November 2006

Thu 30: Detailed Reports on 135 Safe Routes to School Plans 8

Thu 30: Safe Routes to Schools Study Complete 4

Wed 29: New Bike Lanes and Markings for the Lower East Side 23

Wed 29: SUV Attack Update 2 10

Wed 22: This Morning's Commute: The Ian Goldman Affair 55

Thu 9: DOT to Neighborhood: Your School's in the Way of Our Highway 7

Thu 9: "Officials Deny" That Flatbush and Glenwood is Dangerous 4

Wed 8: Grand Army Plaza Bollards: Saving Lives and Wrecking Cars 1

Tue 7: Reverse Engineering Pedestrian Safety in Boerum Hill 16

Mon 6: Queensboro Bridge Area Safety Under Scrutiny 0

Fri 3: DOT Culture: Stifling Innovation on NYC's Streets? 9

Fri 3: NYC Gets its First Pedestrian Countdown Timer 8

October 2006

Thu 26: Downtown Brooklyn Traffic Calming Project: Ten Years On 5

Wed 25: Pedestrian-Friendly Changes for Grand Army Plaza 11

Tue 24: Tomorrow: Protest Rally in Response to Atlantic Avenue Carnage 1

Tue 17: Thursday's Transpo Conference: A Call for Reform 8

Fri 13: The Iris Weinshall Renaissance 11

September 2006

Thu 28: Above the Law: Parking Permit Abuse Study Released 5

Wed 27: Another Model: Berkeley's Bicycle Boulevard Network 12

Tue 26: The Queensboro Meat Grinder 6

August 2006

Thu 31: Rally for a Livable Houston Street 8

Wed 30: Signs of Crooked Pedestrian Priorities 8

Mon 21: Where in the City is this? 13

Mon 14: Brooklyn's Fort Greene Fights for Livable Streets 3

Mon 7: Eyes on the Street: Friday, August 4, 2006 3

July 2006

Tue 18: Park Slope Parent Ped Rage 5

June 2006

Tue 27: Streetfilms: Broadway & Houston 0

Mon 19: Untangling Traffic: Bloomberg's Forgotten Promise 0

Thu 8: The 96th Street Sidewalk Nibblers 0

October 2005

Fri 14: Making NYC's Streets Safe for Hydrants & Pay Phones 18