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November 2009
Fri 20: In Progress: A More Walkable, Bikeable, Trottable Park Circle 16
October 2009
Tue 20: Streetfilms Shorties: Why Don't We Plant Trees in the Road? 12
August 2009
Fri 28: Legacy of Downtown Brooklyn Traffic Calming Advocates Continues 0
Fri 28: Now That's What I Call a Neckdown! 19
July 2009
Thu 16: Eyes on the Street: Bike Traffic on Eighth = Rolling Goldmine 15
Wed 1: Ask and Ye Shall Receive: Brooklyn CB9 Gets a Bike Lane on Empire Blvd 19
June 2009
Thu 18: Tonight: DOT Unveils Plans for 181st Street in Washington Heights 5
Tue 16: Tonight: Weigh In on What's Next for Park Circle Improvements 0
Mon 1: Solve the Congestion Crisis And Win $50,000 6
May 2009
Wed 20: Signs of Progress for Downtown Brooklyn Safety Fixes 3
Mon 18: Streetfilms: Students Paint the Pavement in Brooklyn 5
Fri 15: Saturday: Paint the Pavement With Brooklyn Students 3
Wed 6: Tonight: Friendly Voices Needed for Harlem Bike Lane 0
Tue 5: Streetfilms Inspires New Jersey "Traffic Safety Quilt" 1
April 2009
Fri 17: Two-Way Protected Bike Path Sails Through CB6 Committee 16
Wed 15: Wiki Wednesday: Getting Streets in Shape With Road Diets 3
Fri 3: Bigger Sidewalks But No Protected Bike Lane for Houston Street 14
March 2009
Wed 25: Petition: Tell DOT to Reverse the Curse on Brooklyn Speedways 11
Tue 3: A Park Circle Where Walkers Feel Welcome 14
February 2009
Wed 11: Tonight: Support Major Ped and Bike Improvements at CB3 Meeting 5
December 2008
Fri 5: Brooklyn CBs Open to Prospect Park Road Diet 14
Mon 1: Tuesday: Oppo Expected to Improvements for Chatham Square, Park Row 15
November 2008
Tue 11: Shocker: Speed Limits Are Useless Without Enforcement 8
Thu 6: CB12 Committee Asks DOT for Dyckman Greenway Connector Study 2
October 2008
Fri 31: Brooklyn Bridge to Be Closed to Cyclists for Bike Traffic Calming 47
Wed 29: TA Rolls Out CrashStat Improvements 8
Mon 27: Safe Streets for Seniors? Try Telling Police and Prosecutors. 7
Tue 21: Vision Zero NYC: Ending the Body Count 31
Tue 14: Plenty of Changes Underway on Chrystie and Forsyth (But No Cycle Track) 9
Mon 6: Pedestrian Fatalities Spark Few Media Questions, Zero Cries for "Justice" 16
September 2008
Wed 17: Grand Army Plaza, Reinvented 1
Thu 11: Placemaking on the Upper East Side 7
Fri 5: Bloomberg, Sadik-Khan to Hold 11:00 Madison Square Presser 1
August 2008
Tue 19: Eyes on the Street: A Walk Down Broadway Boulevard 37
July 2008
Mon 28: Astor Place Moves Closer to Becoming a Great Public Space 6
Mon 7: T.A. Offers Reward for Park Slope "Post-Automobile Street" Designs 10
June 2008
Fri 20: New Study Shows City Can Reduce Congestion Through Parking Policy 8
Thu 19: Use Your Illusion II: Virtual Speed Humps Coming to Philly 15
Wed 18: Eyes on the Street: Madison Square, Re-Squared 7
Wed 4: Streetfilms: The Transformation of Grand Army Plaza 17
Wed 4: New Law Encourages DOT to Set Traffic Reduction Targets 10
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 29: DOT Previews Big Plans at Greenway Summit 19
Tue 20: Eyes on the Street: Bike Boxes on (Brooklyn's) Broadway 11
Tue 13: Streetfilm: The Diverter 5
Mon 12: Eyes on the Street: A Death-Defying Walk to Prospect Park 15
Fri 9: CB2 Chairman Punts Queens Greenway Vote Over Loss of Parking 25
April 2008
Fri 25: Streetfilm: The Transformation of Meat Market Plaza 11
Thu 24: Eyes on the Street: Gansevoort Plaza Open for Business (Updated) 36
Wed 23: 3rd Annual Greenway Summit 0
Tue 22: How Paris is Beating Traffic Without Congestion Pricing 30
Thu 17: A Transit Miracle on 34th Street 49
Tue 15: Après Congestion Pricing, It's Time to Look at the Paris Model 19
Tue 15: In the Heights: City Aims to Make 181st a Complete Street 16
Thu 10: Today the Périphérique. Tomorrow the FDR. 3
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
Fri 4: What Your District Loses Without Congestion Pricing 3
Tue 1: Community Boards Set to Review Livable Streets Proposals 7
March 2008
Tue 25: Citizens Hammer NYPD Commissioner Kelly on Street Safety 13
Mon 17: DeKalb Avenue Could Become a More Complete Street 14
Mon 17: StreetFilm: Traffic Calming Done Right in Melbourne 10
Thu 13: In Istanbul, a Burgeoning Livable Streets Movement 2
Tue 11: Temporary Chicanes Calm Mr. Eckerson's Neighborhood 9
Fri 7: Car-Free Washington Place? Not in My Driveway, Say Residents 25
Wed 5: Meeting Tonight on Beseiged Plan to Calm NYU Campus 5
February 2008
Fri 29: Today's Headlines 13
Fri 15: Citizens Propose Cycle Track Greenway Connector in Inwood 29
Thu 14: Pint-Sized Parks Make Safer Streets and Cleaner Rivers 16
January 2008
Tue 29: City Numbers Show Highest Cyclist Death Toll in Eight Years 28
Thu 17: Traffic Calming Animation of the Day: The Chicane 15
Thu 10: Times Square: Too Many People, or Just Too Many Cars? 14
Fri 4: A Year After Eric Ng's Death, Greenway Hazards Remain Unfixed 42
December 2007
Mon 24: Merry Gridlock! 17
Tue 18: Kheel Plan: Double the Congestion Charge & Make Transit Free 35
Tue 4: Crashstat 2.0 Reveals NYC’S Most Dangerous Intersections 9
November 2007
Wed 28: The Speed Bump Catapault 9
Mon 12: DOT Rolls Out Fort Greene Bike Lanes & Traffic-Calming 12
Tue 6: Envisioning an Upper West Side Streets Renaissance 38
Thu 1: Ped Struck as Cab Runs Into Storefront at 53rd and Madison 18
Thu 1: Tearing Up the Streets, and Pants 39
October 2007
Mon 22: The Times Wants Your Traffic Ideas 4
Mon 15: Indianapolis Paves the Way for Bikes and Pedestrians 26
Fri 12: T.A. Responds to 'Keep NYC Congestion' Plan 40
Thu 4: Memorials Held for Thomson and Miller 0
September 2007
Thu 27: 34th Precinct Promises Action on Broadway and Dongan 0
Tue 4: Infinite Jest 4
Tue 4: Last Weekend of Summer Marked by Child's Death 0
August 2007
Wed 22: Central Park 66th Street Transverse Is Unsafe 11
Mon 13: Make That 21 Council Members in Favor of Pricing 4
Wed 1: Meatpacking Plaza Update 3
July 2007
Fri 27: Effective Traffic Calming Device: The Frisbee 8
Mon 16: In Chicago, Parks Funded By Parking Garages 3
Fri 13: More Meatpacking Plaza Construction Photos 1
Mon 9: It's Getting Better All the Time 1
Thu 5: Ninth Street Earns Its Stripes 19
Thu 5: No Exit, Upper West Side Style 12
June 2007
Fri 29: No Love for One-Way Proposal in Jackson Heights 7
Mon 25: Auto Insurer Creates Traffic Mayhem With Gasoline Give-Away 3
Mon 11: Call for Ped Safety Measures on Third and Fourth Avenues 1
May 2007
Fri 25: A Portland Neighborhood Reclaims its Streets 2
Fri 18: CB6 Committee Unanimously Approves 9th St. Project 12
Thu 17: Time to Expand DOT's Toolbox Beyond Signs and Signals? 15
Tue 8: Ninth Street Update: Robert's Rules of Order 24
Mon 7: Choose Your Own Hells Kitchen 4
Thu 3: Are "Directional Miles of Bike Lanes" a Good Metric? 32
April 2007
Thu 26: Is Walking PlaNYC's Missing Mode? 3
Fri 20: Decongestion in Cities Around the World 1
Fri 20: CB2 Signs Off On Prince-Bleecker Bike Lanes 2
Wed 18: Bus Bulbs Are Blooming 15
Fri 13: DOT Called Out for Lacking Clear Ped Safety Plan 1
Wed 11: Who Opposes A Plan for Safer, More Livable Streets and Why? 9
Fri 6: Primeggia's One-Way Safety Claims Are Based on 1970s Studies 3
March 2007
Thu 29: Vanderbilt Avenue: The Model for DOT's 9th Street Proposal? 12
Tue 27: Important Meeting for Livable Streets Advocates 5
Thu 22: Studies Refute DOT's Claim That One-Way Avenues Are Safer 5
Fri 16: DOT Makes the Case for Bike Routes Parallel to W. Houston St. 29
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: The Iris Weinshall Legacy: Queens Boulevard 6
February 2007
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
Thu 22: The "Speed Lump." Not a Typo. It's Inexpensive Traffic Calming. 6
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
Thu 15: Plan Urged Safety Measures for Intersection Where Boy Died 16
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: The Case of the Disappearing Sharrows 5
Mon 12: The Seed of a Revolution in Red Hook 6
Thu 8: DOT: "Our Job is to Keep Traffic Moving, Not Pedestrian Safety" 12
Thu 1: Calming Traffic in Chinatown 20
January 2007
Wed 10: New Traffic Island Makes News, Takes a Beating 20
December 2006
Sun 31: Setting the Agenda on Pedestrian Safety 29
Mon 11: Beijing Bike Bully Forced to Apologize on TV 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
Tue 21: Speed Hump 1
Thu 16: A Streetsblog Reader Wins Traffic Calming Improvements 6
Tue 14: Traffic Relief Rally at City Hall This Morning 0
Thu 9: Traffic: A Social Problem Not a Design Problem 17
Tue 7: Reverse Engineering Pedestrian Safety in Boerum Hill 16
October 2006
Thu 26: Downtown Brooklyn Traffic Calming Project: Ten Years On 5
Tue 24: Tomorrow: Protest Rally in Response to Atlantic Avenue Carnage 1
September 2006
Thu 28: Learning From a Streets Renaissance in Hong Kong 9
Tue 26: The Queensboro Meat Grinder 6
August 2006
Thu 31: Rally for a Livable Houston Street 8
Mon 21: Where in the City is this? 13
Tue 15: Chinatown Business Group Proposes Car-Free Streets 7
Mon 14: Brooklyn's Fort Greene Fights for Livable Streets 3
Thu 10: Congestion Pricing on Hold, Traffic Returns to Stockholm 1
Mon 7: Bloomberg on Oil Dependence: Punditry or Policy? 1
July 2006
Mon 17: Traffic Engineering by Body Count 2
Tue 11: Unwarranted Traffic Chaos in Red Hook 5
June 2006
Thu 8: Liz Padilla Memorial & Bike Improvements 0
April 2006
Wed 19: Slow-Moving Bus Rapid Transit 5
March 2006
Sat 18: Pedestrian Mall Revolution 3