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May 2008

5/09: CB2 Chairman Punts Queens Greenway Vote Over Loss of Parking 23

April 2008

4/25: Streetfilm: The Transformation of Meat Market Plaza 11
4/24: Eyes on the Street: Gansevoort Plaza Open for Business (Updated) 36
4/22: How Paris is Beating Traffic Without Congestion Pricing 29
4/17: A Transit Miracle on 34th Street 46
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
4/01: Community Boards Set to Review Livable Streets Proposals 7

March 2008

3/25: Citizens Hammer NYPD Commissioner Kelly on Street Safety 13
3/17: DeKalb Avenue Could Become a More Complete Street 14
3/17: StreetFilm: Traffic Calming Done Right in Melbourne 10
3/13: In Istanbul, a Burgeoning Livable Streets Movement 2
3/11: Temporary Chicanes Calm Mr. Eckerson's Neighborhood 9
3/07: Car-Free Washington Place? Not in My Driveway, Say Residents 25
3/05: Meeting Tonight on Beseiged Plan to Calm NYU Campus 5

February 2008

2/15: Citizens Propose Cycle Track Greenway Connector in Inwood 28
2/14: Pint-Sized Parks Make Safer Streets and Cleaner Rivers 16

January 2008

1/17: Traffic Calming Animation of the Day: The Chicane 15
1/10: Times Square: Too Many People, or Just Too Many Cars? 14
1/04: A Year After Eric Ng's Death, Greenway Hazards Remain Unfixed 42

November 2007

11/28: The Speed Bump Catapault 9
11/12: DOT Rolls Out Fort Greene Bike Lanes & Traffic-Calming 12
11/01: Ped Struck as Cab Runs Into Storefront at 53rd and Madison 18
11/01: Tearing Up the Streets, and Pants 39

October 2007

10/15: Indianapolis Paves the Way for Bikes and Pedestrians 26
10/04: Memorials Held for Thomson and Miller 0

September 2007

9/04: Infinite Jest 4
9/04: Last Weekend of Summer Marked by Child's Death 0

August 2007

8/22: Central Park 66th Street Transverse Is Unsafe 11
8/01: Meatpacking Plaza Update 3

July 2007

7/27: Effective Traffic Calming Device: The Frisbee 8
7/13: More Meatpacking Plaza Construction Photos 1
7/09: It's Getting Better All the Time 1
7/05: Ninth Street Earns Its Stripes 19
7/05: No Exit, Upper West Side Style 12

June 2007

6/29: No Love for One-Way Proposal in Jackson Heights 7
6/25: Auto Insurer Creates Traffic Mayhem With Gasoline Give-Away 3
6/11: Call for Ped Safety Measures on Third and Fourth Avenues 1

May 2007

5/25: A Portland Neighborhood Reclaims its Streets 2
5/18: CB6 Committee Unanimously Approves 9th St. Project 12
5/17: Time to Expand DOT's Toolbox Beyond Signs and Signals? 15
5/07: Choose Your Own Hells Kitchen 4
5/03: Are "Directional Miles of Bike Lanes" a Good Metric? 32

April 2007

4/26: Is Walking PlaNYC's Missing Mode? 3
4/20: CB2 Signs Off On Prince-Bleecker Bike Lanes 2
4/18: Bus Bulbs Are Blooming 15
4/13: DOT Called Out for Lacking Clear Ped Safety Plan 1
4/11: Who Opposes A Plan for Safer, More Livable Streets and Why? 9
4/06: Primeggia's One-Way Safety Claims Are Based on 1970s Studies 3

March 2007

3/22: Studies Refute DOT's Claim That One-Way Avenues Are Safer 5
3/16: DOT Makes the Case for Bike Routes Parallel to W. Houston St. 29
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
3/02: The Iris Weinshall Legacy: Queens Boulevard 6

February 2007

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
2/22: The "Speed Lump." Not a Typo. It's Inexpensive Traffic Calming. 6
2/21: Why Wasn't Traffic-Calming Built on Third Avenue? 2
2/19: DOT Pledged Ped Safety Fixes by 2006 on Deadly Third Ave 16
2/15: Plan Urged Safety Measures for Intersection Where Boy Died 16
2/14: NYC Pedestrian Fatalities Up in 2006? 10
2/14: Four-Year-Old Killed by Hummer Shouldn't Have Died in Vain 32
2/13: The Case of the Disappearing Sharrows 5
2/12: The Seed of a Revolution in Red Hook 6
2/08: DOT: "Our Job is to Keep Traffic Moving, Not Pedestrian Safety" 12
2/01: Calming Traffic in Chinatown 20

January 2007

1/10: New Traffic Island Makes News, Takes a Beating 20

December 2006

12/31: Setting the Agenda on Pedestrian Safety 29
12/11: Beijing Bike Bully Forced to Apologize on TV 3
12/01: Safe Routes to Schools: Yesterday's Press Event 3

November 2006

11/30: Detailed Reports on 135 Safe Routes to School Plans 8
11/30: Safe Routes to Schools Study Complete 4
11/21: Speed Hump 1
11/16: A Streetsblog Reader Wins Traffic Calming Improvements 6
11/09: Traffic: A Social Problem Not a Design Problem 17
11/07: Reverse Engineering Pedestrian Safety in Boerum Hill 16

October 2006

10/26: Downtown Brooklyn Traffic Calming Project: Ten Years On 5
10/24: Tomorrow: Protest Rally in Response to Atlantic Avenue Carnage 1

September 2006

9/28: Learning From a Streets Renaissance in Hong Kong 9
9/26: The Queensboro Meat Grinder 6

August 2006

8/31: Rally for a Livable Houston Street 8
8/21: Where in the City is this? 13
8/14: Brooklyn's Fort Greene Fights for Livable Streets 3

July 2006

7/17: Traffic Engineering by Body Count 2
7/11: Unwarranted Traffic Chaos in Red Hook 5

June 2006

6/08: Liz Padilla Memorial & Bike Improvements 0