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- Thu 31:
Measuring the Value of Livable Streets
- Wed 30:
Want a Park(ing) Day Spot? 50 Spaces Now Available.
- Fri 25:
Streetfilms: A New Play Street for Jackson Heights
- Tue 22:
Evaluating Summer Streets
- Fri 18:
Tom Vanderbilt Ponders Motorist Sociopathy
- Fri 11:
Times Shows Little Love for Livable Streets
- Wed 9:
DC Defends Livable Streets Improvements as WaPo Declares "War"
- Wed 2:
Contented Streets: Why Copenhagen Is the World's Happiest Capital
- Wed 25:
Want a New Public Plaza in Your Neighborhood? Apply Now.
- Mon 23:
"Don't Block the Box" Bill Clears Albany
- Mon 9:
Feed the Meters, Feed the Homeless
- Fri 30:
Hell's Parking Lot
- Thu 15:
It's Man Vs. Car in NYC and Tim Robbins is "The Rectifier"
- Wed 7:
Atlantic Yards or Atlantic Lots?
- Tue 6:
Streetfilm: A Pedestrian Paradise in Melbourne
- Tue 15:
Après Congestion Pricing, It's Time to Look at the Paris Model
- Wed 26:
Streetfilms: "Lounging on High" in Wodonga, Australia
- Tue 25:
Citizens Hammer NYPD Commissioner Kelly on Street Safety
- Tue 18:
Envisioning a More Livable Columbus Avenue
- Thu 13:
Could "Open Sundays" Help Solve Prince Problems?
- Wed 12:
DOT Details Prince Street "Open Sundays" Project
- Fri 7:
Mime Threat Overshadows Car-Free Prince Street Proposal
- Tue 26:
StreetFilm: The Street Life of Havana
- Wed 20:
Peñalosa to New York Pols: BRT & Pricing Benefit Working Class
- Tue 29:
City Numbers Show Highest Cyclist Death Toll in Eight Years
- Fri 18:
Are Bikes the Secret to Danish Bliss?
- Fri 4:
Half Moon Over the Brooklyn Bridge
- Fri 21:
Brooklyn Waterfront Greenway Comes to Life
- Fri 14:
Congestion Pricing: Bloomberg Needs to Sweeten the Deal
- Fri 14:
Running the Christmas Tree Gauntlet
- Fri 14:
What Makes a Place Walkable?
- Mon 10:
This Holiday Season London's Streets Are "Absolutely Jammed"
- Tue 4:
Good Streets Include Streetcars
- Mon 3:
Houston Street Gets Tree-mendous New Sidewalks
- Mon 3:
Ciclovía: A Moving Experience in Bogotá, Colombia
- Thu 29:
Carrion Gets $30K Donation Following Yanks Walkway Deal
- Tue 27:
The Trafficist: An Interview With Randy Cohen
- Mon 12:
DOT Rolls Out Fort Greene Bike Lanes & Traffic-Calming
- Mon 12:
Congestion Pricing Will Make You Happy
- Mon 12:
Nasty Newsrack Photo Contest Finalists
- Mon 29:
The Bogotá Transformation: Vision and Political Will
- Thu 25:
Bike Snob NYC Shows You How It's Done
- Mon 22:
Bogotá's Peñalosa Talks Up Livable Streets, Sans Spandex
- Thu 18:
Tykes on Bikes
- Wed 17:
Illinois Adopts "Complete Streets" Into Law
- Mon 8:
The World's Greenest, Most Livable Cities
- Wed 3:
Doubts About DOT Congestion Prescription in Jax Heights
- Tue 2:
DOT Minds the GAP
- Tue 2:
Fresh Direct Responds to Environmental Critics
- Thu 27:
Meat Market Plaza is Open for Business
- Tue 25:
DOT Asks, and Gets an Earful from West Siders
- Mon 24:
StreetFilms: Park(ing) Day 2007
- Fri 21:
Upper West Side Livable Streets Advocates: Mark Your Calendar
- Fri 14:
German Town Chooses Human Interaction Over Traffic Signals
- Thu 13:
A Gehl Dispatch From Down Under
- Wed 12:
A Streets Renaissance in Lower Manhattan
- Tue 4:
Take the NYC Neighborhood Quality of Life Survey
- Tue 4:
Queens Pedestrian Safety Fixes Move Ahead Despite Opposition
- Fri 31:
City Promises $5M in Ped Safety Improvements at Mural Opening
- Mon 27:
New "People's 311" Site Maps Street Hazards
- Mon 20:
The Urban Transportation Report Card
- Fri 17:
For Your Weekend Viewing Pleasure: Portland!
- Wed 15:
A Brooklyn Parking Lot Becomes a Neighborhood "Living Room"
- Tue 14:
The Cars That Ate New York
- Mon 13:
Tonight: Traffic-Calming Mural Preview & Fundraiser
- Fri 10:
In the Shadow of the Queensboro Bridge
- Fri 10:
City Launches "Public Plaza Initiative" at DUMBO Pocket Park
- Thu 9:
Paint a Parking Lot, Put up a Paradise
- Mon 6:
New Blog Focuses on Tearing Down the "Highway to Nowhere"
- Fri 3:
Saturday Evening in Jackson Heights, Queens: Feel the Pain
- Thu 2:
Melbourne, Australia After a Decade of Focus on Public Spaces
- Thu 2:
Famed Danish Urbanist Jan Gehl in Town to Consult on PlaNYC
- Thu 2:
Tonight: Park(ing) Day Planning Meeting
- Thu 2:
Cool New Thing: What's Your Walk Score?
- Wed 1:
Fear and Loathing on the Upper East Side
- Wed 1:
Meatpacking Plaza Update
- Tue 31:
A Solution to Stroller Rage
- Wed 25:
Accidents Halved As Street is Stripped of 'Safety' Features
- Tue 24:
Microbuses and Bike Sharing: The New Parisian Street Scene
- Thu 19:
CB8 Shoots Down Upper East Side Crosstown Bike Route Plan
- Fri 13:
More Meatpacking Plaza Construction Photos
- Thu 12:
Construction of Piazza de Meatpacking is Underway
- Tue 10:
Brooklyn Merchants Fight for Parking Over Affordable Housing
- Fri 6:
Mayor Speaks at Times Square Pricing Rally
- Thu 5:
Bike-Sharing in New York: Could It Happen Here?
- Tue 3:
One's Inner SUV Driver
- Mon 2:
Take Back the Streets, for the Kids
- Fri 29:
No Love for One-Way Proposal in Jackson Heights
- Mon 25:
Brooklyn Greenway Initiative Benefit This Thursday
- Fri 22:
Meatpacking District Will Get a Makeover
- Wed 20:
Leave Your iPod at Home Tomorrow
- Tue 19:
Jackson Heights: New Front in One-Way Battle
- Thu 14:
Brooklyn Community Board Supports DOT's 9th Street Plan
- Wed 13:
Brainstorming a New Vision for Midtown's East River Waterfront
- Mon 11:
Call for Ped Safety Measures on Third and Fourth Avenues
- Thu 7:
Chicago Alley Initiative Shows How to Make Streets Greener
- Thu 7:
Car-Free Sundays Return to the Bronx
- Wed 6:
Eyes on the Street: A Special Lane for Parking Cars
- Wed 6:
Ciclovia: Is NYC Ready?
- Wed 6:
CB4 Votes Tonight on a Revised Hell's Kitchen
- Mon 4:
Seventeen Elected Officials Endorse PlaNYC Initiatives
- Fri 1:
City Wants 20,000 New Parking Spaces in Hell's Kitchen
- Wed 30:
StreetFilms: Turning Streets Into Community Spaces
- Wed 30:
Motor Vehicles Leading Cause of NYC Child Injury Deaths
- Tue 29:
86th Street: The Congestion Pricing Battle Line
- Fri 25:
A Portland Neighborhood Reclaims its Streets
- Wed 23:
In DUMBO a Parking Lot Will Become a Piazza
- Fri 18:
T.A. Rides with the Mayors of Sydney & Copenhagen
- Fri 18:
Battery Park City: An Opportunity for Innovative Street Design
- Thu 17:
9th Street Road Diet Meeting Tonight
- Wed 16:
Aug. '05 Flashback: 1,200 Slopers Demand a Safer 9th Street
- Mon 14:
PlanNYC's Public Political Push Starts Today
- Fri 11:
Double-Parking in a Bike Lane? There Isn't Even a Check Box.
- Fri 11:
PlaNYC Quietly Introduces "Safe Routes to Transit"
- Thu 10:
There Are Certain Facts That We've All Got to Face Up To
- Wed 9:
Biofuels, Bus Lanes and Beer
- Mon 7:
Choose Your Own Hells Kitchen
- Mon 7:
StreetFilms: Touring Brooklyn's Future Waterfront Greenway
- Mon 7:
Another Look at the WSJ Article on European Cycling
- Fri 4:
Building a Better Bike Lane
- Thu 3:
Are "Directional Miles of Bike Lanes" a Good Metric?
- Wed 2:
This is How State Senator Eric Adams Celebrates Bike Month?
- Wed 2:
When Streets Are for People
- Fri 27:
Eyes on the Street: Parking it for Lunch in London
- Fri 27:
Tell Marty Markowitz You Support DOT's 9th Street Plan
- Thu 26:
Is Walking PlaNYC's Missing Mode?
- Thu 26:
Fun With Numbers (Or: The PlaNYC Index)
- Wed 25:
Media (Mostly) Give PlaNYC Its Due
- Wed 25:
Streetfilms: Little Legs for Green Streets
- Tue 24:
Electeds React to Congestion Pricing
- Mon 23:
How Green Is Our Mayor
- Sat 21:
StreetFilm: Talking Transportation with Bob Kiley
- Fri 20:
Roosevelt Island Residents Want Pedestrian Access to QBB
- Fri 20:
The Ultimate System: Free Mass Transit and Congestion Pricing
- Thu 19:
Visions of a Grander Grand Army Plaza
- Thu 19:
Grand Plans for Brooklyn's Iconic Public Space
- Wed 18:
Bicycle Advocacy TV Ads from the Netherlands
- Wed 18:
SoHo Car Owners Mobilizing to Save Parking, Fight Bike Lanes
- Tue 17:
Bus Depots a Symptom of Environmental Injustice
- Thu 12:
CB2 Committee Approves "Additional" Prince/Bleecker Routes
- Wed 11:
Who Opposes A Plan for Safer, More Livable Streets and Why?
- Tue 10:
The Plan: Making Brooklyn's 9th Street Safer for Everyone
- Tue 10:
Updated Version of DOT's 9th Street Plan
- Tue 10:
Take a Minute to Fax in Your Support for DOT's 9th Street Plan
- Mon 9:
Pedestrian Safety: London Shows How NYC Can Do Better
- Mon 9:
City Pitches in for Yankee Stadium Parking
- Mon 9:
Take Action: Support the Prince/Bleecker Bike Route Plan
- Fri 6:
Primeggia's One-Way Safety Claims Are Based on 1970s Studies
- Wed 4:
Auto Worship Still a Sign of the Times
- Mon 2:
Congestion Relief: It's About Your Health
- Sun 1:
Breaking News: Frieden Tapped as DOT Commish
- Thu 29:
A Tale of Two DOT Plans
- Thu 29:
Opposition Brewing to DOT's Proposal for 9th Street Bike Lanes
- Thu 29:
A Community Workshop to Re-envision Grand Army Plaza
- Fri 16:
DOT Makes the Case for Bike Routes Parallel to W. Houston St.
- Wed 14:
StreetFilms: One Way is the Wrong Way
- Tue 13:
DOT's Park Slope Proposal: Is this Atlantic Yards Planning?
- Fri 9:
City Finally Finishes Eight-Year-Long Truck Study
- Fri 9:
Report from Atlanta: Don't Walk This Way
- Thu 8:
Brooklyn to Bloomberg: Include Local Stakeholders in Planning
- Wed 7:
DOT's Park Slope Plan Requires Community Board Support
- Mon 5:
Old Gray Lady Gets on the Bandwagon
- Fri 2:
The Iris Weinshall Legacy: Queens Boulevard
- Wed 28:
DOT to Propose Radical New Traffic Plan for Park Slope
- Tue 27:
No Parking Slope
- Mon 26:
3 Peds Hit on 9th Ave. 2 Dead. Mayor Mike: Where Are You?
- Fri 23:
Streetfilms: Intersection Intervention
- Thu 22:
How to Improve Travel Times and Transit Capacity?
- Wed 21:
Eyes on the Street: Snow Days
- Thu 15:
Living Near Shops and Transit Makes New Yorkers Less Fat
- Mon 12:
The Seed of a Revolution in Red Hook
- Fri 9:
Streetfilms: "A City Is a Means to a Way of Life"
- Tue 6:
New York New Visions Tackles "Sustainable" New York Future
- Tue 30:
Study: Kids Who Live Near Freeways Have Trouble Breathing
- Mon 29:
New York City 2030. London Today.
- Thu 25:
Are Port Authority's Airport Expansionists Flying Blind?
- Tue 23:
The Known Unknowns of New York City's Streets
- Mon 15:
Celerant CEO Ian Goldman Celebrated in the Wall Street Journal
- Mon 15:
Does Vehicular Chaos Push Families Out of NYC?
- Thu 11:
Public Health and Livable Streets: Making the Connection
- Thu 11:
Bicoastal Garbage Disposal Practices
- Wed 10:
Making Hell's Kitchen Less Hellish
- Wed 10:
Playable Streets
- Thu 4:
Streetscape Aesthetics vs. Pedestrian Safety
- Fri 22:
Small Step for Pedestrians & Cyclists; Giant Leap for NYC
- Fri 22:
New German Community Models Car-Free Living
- Tue 19:
Chicago Cracks Down on Drivers Who Threaten Pedestrians
- Mon 18:
Holiday Book Recommendations Open Thread
- Thu 14:
Rethinking Soho
- Tue 12:
Futurama 2030: Bloomberg Outlines Ambitious 10-Point Agenda
- Mon 11:
Beijing Bike Bully Forced to Apologize on TV
- Mon 11:
Reader Contributions
- Mon 11:
Life at Streetsblog Headquarters
- Fri 8:
Seoul's New Heart
- Tue 5:
File Under: No Wonder New York City is Falling Behind London
- Thu 30:
Safe Routes to Schools Study Complete
- Wed 29:
SUV Attack Update 2
- Tue 28:
Dutch Wheelchair
- Tue 28:
Curbside Space Wars
- Tue 28:
SUV Attack Update
- Wed 22:
Sacrificing Central Park to Appease the Traffic Gods
- Wed 22:
This Morning's Commute: The Ian Goldman Affair
- Tue 21:
Eyes on the Street: Occupied Territory
- Mon 20:
Speak Up to Keep the Willoughby Street Pedestrian Plaza
- Mon 20:
The Traffic is the Mitigation
- Thu 16:
A Streetsblog Reader Wins Traffic Calming Improvements
- Wed 15:
Straphangers' Russianoff Will be Named to Spitzer Team
- Wed 15:
Mayor Livingstone: $50 to Drive an SUV into Central London
- Thu 9:
DOT to Neighborhood: Your School's in the Way of Our Highway
- Wed 8:
Car-Free Manhattan: Just Wait 100 Years
- Tue 7:
Reverse Engineering Pedestrian Safety in Boerum Hill
- Mon 6:
Cyclists and Pedestrians: Fighting Over the Scraps
- Mon 6:
Queensboro Bridge Area Safety Under Scrutiny
- Fri 3:
Slow News Day?
- Thu 2:
London Calling. Are New York's Leaders Really Listening?
- Wed 1:
San Fran Mayor Sets Ambitious Transportation Targets
- Fri 27:
Foreign Correspondent: Bogotá's Lack of "Vibrancy"
- Fri 27:
Life on Crutches in NYC
- Thu 26:
Downtown Brooklyn Traffic Calming Project: Ten Years On
- Thu 26:
Street Hockey: The New Stickball?
- Wed 25:
Pedestrian-Friendly Changes for Grand Army Plaza
- Wed 25:
MTA Response to Pokey: Traffic Congestion = "Vibrancy"
- Wed 11:
Planetizen Interview With Amanda Burden
- Tue 10:
Important Manhattan Transportation Forum on Thursday
- Mon 9:
NYC Finally Cracking Down on Security Barriers
- Fri 6:
Creating Great Public Spaces in New York City
- Fri 6:
International Walk and Bike to School Day: Portland
- Fri 6:
Traffic's Human Toll
- Wed 4:
Tomorrow, Special Event: What is Traffic's Human Toll?
- Wed 4:
Notes on Bicycling in Copenhagen
- Tue 3:
Traffic's Human Toll
- Tue 3:
Danish Bike Cargo
- Fri 29:
Blogging From Copenhagen
- Thu 28:
Learning From a Streets Renaissance in Hong Kong
- Wed 27:
Another Model: Berkeley's Bicycle Boulevard Network
- Tue 26:
Urban Density and a Pocketbook Plea for Congestion Pricing
- Mon 25:
Streetfilms: Park(ing) Day San Francisco
- Thu 21:
Bloomberg Sustainability Announcement
- Mon 11:
Binghamton Revitalizing Around Livable Downtown
- Fri 8:
Midtown's Mini-Plaza
- Tue 5:
Street Quotes: Post-Labor Day Re-Acclimation
- Fri 1:
Car Alarm Ruins Otherwise Excellent Meal
- Tue 29:
Dead Ball
- Mon 28:
The Suburbanization of NYC's Waterfront
- Mon 21:
Where in the City is this?
- Fri 18:
Streetfilms: Car-Free Sunday on the Grand Concourse
- Tue 15:
Travel Tips for the Plutocracy
- Mon 14:
Brooklyn's Fort Greene Fights for Livable Streets
- Mon 14:
Hillary Feels Staten Island's Pain on Traffic
- Sat 12:
The Post 'Drops the Ball' on Yankee Stadium Story
- Thu 10:
Mist-Cooled Bike Paths Being Built in Qatar
- Wed 9:
Report Calls for Radical Rethink of New York Area Planning
- Wed 9:
Can You Name the Town?
- Tue 8:
Eyes On the Dog Run
- Tue 1:
No Thongs on the Pompidou Expressway! Tomorrow the F.D.R.?
- Tue 1:
Eyes on the Street: Above the Cross Bronx 'Expressway'
- Tue 18:
London Mayor Wants $45 Fee From Pollution-Making SUV's
- Tue 18:
Park Slope Parent Ped Rage
- Mon 17:
Do-It-Yourself Air Quality Monitoring
- Mon 17:
What's Wrong With This Picture?
- Mon 17:
Traffic Engineering by Body Count
- Sun 16:
Vehicle City
- Thu 13:
Noise: NYC's Top Neighborhood Quality of Life Problem
- Wed 14:
Why Only One Museum Mile?
- Tue 13:
Pedestrian-Only Fifth Avenue: Tonight, a Three Hour Test
- Thu 8:
The 96th Street Sidewalk Nibblers
- Fri 28:
Car Fight
- Thu 27:
555 Hudson Street