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October 2009
Thu 8: What Kind of Pedestrian Are You? 0
September 2009
Tue 15: Planetizen Unveils Its Top 100 Urban Thinkers 7
Fri 11: The Pedestrian Crush: It Doesn't Have to Be Like This 24
August 2009
Wed 19: When Dodging Death Becomes a Fact of Life 36
May 2009
Fri 1: DOT: Nine New Public Plazas in the Works 5
April 2009
Tue 21: New Video Series Tells the Story of Sprawl 0
Mon 13: Streetfilms: London's Campaign for People-First Public Spaces 2
December 2008
Tue 23: DOT Shows Off Grand Concourse Improvements 23
Wed 17: Wiki Wednesday: San Francisco's Better Streets Plan 0
Thu 11: San Francisco Mayor to NYC: "Eat Your Heart Out." 25
Mon 1: Pedestrians, Bus Riders, and Cyclists Get a Better Bronx Hub 8
November 2008
Fri 14: CityRacks Winner: It's a Standing O 22
Thu 13: Tonight: See the Blueprint for a New Upper West Side 27
Wed 12: Design Comp Winner Envisions Neighborhood Bike-Share for Red Hook 2
Thu 6: Designing NYC Streets for the 21st Century 2
October 2008
Mon 20: New Duffy Square Adds Glass Crown Atop Broadway Boulevard 8
Fri 10: Public Picks Grand Army Plaza Design 7
Thu 9: Jan Gehl Reflects on San Francisco's Fisherman's Wharf 3
Wed 1: New MTA Grates Double as Seating, Bike Racks 12
Wed 1: Weigh in on the Future of City Bike Racks 18
September 2008
Wed 17: Grand Army Plaza, Reinvented 1
Fri 5: Bloomberg, Sadik-Khan to Hold 11:00 Madison Square Presser 1
Thu 4: Share Your Green Urban Story 7
August 2008
Tue 26: In Week of Carnage, Times Looks Askance at Broadway Traffic-Calming 20
Wed 13: Commerce Bank to Cyclists: Your Money's No Good Here 50
July 2008
Mon 28: Astor Place Moves Closer to Becoming a Great Public Space 6
Wed 23: Livable Streets Projects Getting Hung Up in Budget Bureaucracy? 2
Wed 23: Weiner Invokes Jane Jacobs, Endorses "Alternative Modes" 6
Mon 7: T.A. Offers Reward for Park Slope "Post-Automobile Street" Designs 10
June 2008
Thu 26: Ikea Tests Bike-Share in Denmark. Why Not NYC? 17
Wed 25: Want a New Public Plaza in Your Neighborhood? Apply Now. 0
Thu 19: Streetfilms: Depaving Day in Portland 13
Mon 16: DOT Gives Its Regards to Broadway 26
April 2008
Tue 29: Sadik-Khan Introduces the New York City Model 13
Fri 25: Streetfilm: The Transformation of Meat Market Plaza 11
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
Fri 11: Bronx County Courthouse Plaza Gets a Makeover 18
Thu 10: Today the Périphérique. Tomorrow the FDR. 3
Wed 9: Eyes on the Street: Get Ready for the New Gansevoort 21
Wed 9: Finally, Parking Meters Where Bikes Belong 6
Tue 8: Plan B: Reallocating Street Space To Buses, Bikes & Peds 7
Tue 8: Tonight: Support a Bike-Friendly North Brooklyn 1
March 2008
Tue 18: Envisioning a More Livable Columbus Avenue 8
Fri 14: DOT Launches Bike Rack Design Competition 3
Thu 13: In Istanbul, a Burgeoning Livable Streets Movement 2
Fri 7: Car-Free Washington Place? Not in My Driveway, Say Residents 25
Wed 5: "Better Transit Bake Sale" to Raise $5.65 Billion to Fund Mass Transit 1
Wed 5: Meeting Tonight on Beseiged Plan to Calm NYU Campus 5
February 2008
Fri 22: Let's Chop Up Superblocks 21
Wed 20: Ideas Competition for Brooklyn's Grandest Plaza 17
Fri 15: Citizens Propose Cycle Track Greenway Connector in Inwood 29
Fri 15: City Planning: Fourth Avenue a "Missed Opportunity" 28
Thu 14: Pint-Sized Parks Make Safer Streets and Cleaner Rivers 16
Thu 14: Drivers Ed. Campaign to Accompany Portland Bike Boxes 3
Wed 6: New York Can Do Better Than the "New Fourth Avenue" 38
Tue 5: Reinventing Grand Army Plaza on Lopate Tomorrow 1
January 2008
Tue 15: Will the Tide Turn on City Parking Policy? 8
Fri 11: Another New Bike Shelter 12
Thu 10: Times Square: Too Many People, or Just Too Many Cars? 14
Thu 10: StreetFilm: How to Use a Bike Box 23
Tue 8: What is Your Idea for Grand Army Plaza? 1
Fri 4: A Year After Eric Ng's Death, Greenway Hazards Remain Unfixed 42
Thu 3: The Case Against Pull-in Angle Parking 21
Wed 2: Sleek Bike Parking Facilities Appear in Queens and Brooklyn 32
December 2007
Thu 20: City's First Bike Share Planned for Governors Island 8
Wed 19: Rocky Road 26
Fri 14: What Makes a Place Walkable? 10
Thu 13: Reinventing Grand Army Plaza: What Are Your Ideas? 8
Wed 12: Blinding Headlights Make Part of West Side Greenway Unusable 28
Tue 11: New Grand Army Plaza Concept is "Brilliantly Obvious" 16
Tue 11: Manhattan Bridge Bike & Ped Improvements Nearing Completion 19
Fri 7: Inom Tullarna: The Ancient Roots of Congestion Pricing 18
Fri 7: Replace Penn Station Rats' Warren With a Pedestrian Boulevard 5
November 2007
Wed 28: New Bleecker Bike Lane Already Blocked by Parked Cars 35
Thu 15: R-E-S-P-E-C-T: DOT to Install Sleek New Bike Parking Shelters 46
Thu 15: Prince Street Bike Lane Has Arrived 16
Tue 13: Crosstown Bike Lanes Remain in the Crosshairs 16
Mon 12: DOT Rolls Out Fort Greene Bike Lanes & Traffic-Calming 12
Mon 12: In Amsterdam Cyclists Always Get the Green Light 2
Mon 12: Nasty Newsrack Photo Contest Finalists 18
Thu 8: DOT Rolls Out the New Lower Manhattan Crosstown Bike Route 6
Wed 7: Jan Gehl: Gridlocked Streets Are "Not a Law of Nature" 8
Wed 7: Shared Space on the Brooklyn Bridge 71
October 2007
Wed 31: Happy Halloween From Clarence the Purple Traffic Wizard 11
Tue 30: Brooklyn's Myrtle Avenue Renaissance 1
Tue 30: New Bike Lanes and Sharrows Lead to the Brooklyn Bridge 36
Wed 17: Illinois Adopts "Complete Streets" Into Law 8
Mon 15: Indianapolis Paves the Way for Bikes and Pedestrians 26
Wed 10: Is Transportation Reform Possible When the Cops Don't Care? 28
Mon 8: Renewed Calls for Ped Safety Summit as Death Toll Mounts 5
Thu 4: GAPCo Wins Design Trust Fellowship 0
Thu 4: A Ride Down NYC's "Street of the Future" 35
Wed 3: New Ninth Avenue Separated Bike Path is Already in Place 17
Tue 2: DOT Minds the GAP 9
September 2007
Thu 27: Meat Market Plaza is Open for Business 7
Fri 21: Making the Case for Compact Development 8
Thu 20: NYC Gets Its First-Ever Physically-Separated Bike Path 137
Fri 14: German Town Chooses Human Interaction Over Traffic Signals 8
Thu 13: Does New York Need a 'New Moses'? 24
Thu 13: A Gehl Dispatch From Down Under 2
Wed 12: DOT Launches Gehl Street Survey Project 12
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
Tue 28: Queens Leaders Fight Safety Fixes for Fatal School Crossing 25
Tue 28: City Issues Call for Pricing Tech Designs 31
Mon 27: Bike & Ped Improvements Slated for Manhattan Bridge Approach 18
Fri 24: Survey Finds That Buffered Bike Lanes Are Better 17
Wed 22: Transit-Oriented America, Part 3: Three More Cities 30
Fri 17: Pay Phones May Be a Bad Call for City 14
Wed 15: A Brooklyn Parking Lot Becomes a Neighborhood "Living Room" 5
Tue 14: Video Shows Dangers of Upper East Side Bike Plan 50
Mon 13: Tonight: Traffic-Calming Mural Preview & Fundraiser 3
Fri 10: City Launches "Public Plaza Initiative" at DUMBO Pocket Park 21
Thu 9: Paint a Parking Lot, Put up a Paradise 1
Thu 2: Melbourne, Australia After a Decade of Focus on Public Spaces 12
Thu 2: Famed Danish Urbanist Jan Gehl in Town to Consult on PlaNYC 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: Ninth Ave. and 14th Street Redesign Update 0
Thu 19: CB8 Shoots Down Upper East Side Crosstown Bike Route Plan 38
Wed 18: The London Model is Dead. Time to Look at Paris. 13
Fri 13: More Meatpacking Plaza Construction Photos 1
Thu 12: Construction of Piazza de Meatpacking is Underway 3
Thu 12: New High-Visibility Bike Lanes in Brooklyn 34
Thu 12: An NYC First: On-Street Parking Spaces Replaced by Bike Racks 26
Mon 9: It's Getting Better All the Time 1
Fri 6: Push to Declutter England's Streets 3
Fri 6: The Suburbanist Paradox 13
Mon 2: Berlin's Bicycle Boom 2
June 2007
Mon 25: Brooklyn Greenway Initiative Benefit This Thursday 1
Fri 22: Meatpacking District Will Get a Makeover 9
Tue 19: Will the Revitalized High Bridge be Bike-Friendly? 42
Thu 14: Brooklyn Community Board Supports DOT's 9th Street Plan 0
Wed 13: Brainstorming a New Vision for Midtown's East River Waterfront 13
Tue 12: DOT: Bergtraum to CUNY, Primeggia to Copenhagen 5
Tue 5: Fantasy Island 6
Fri 1: City Wants 20,000 New Parking Spaces in Hell's Kitchen 26
May 2007
Wed 30: LA.Streetsblog: The Joy of Poor Circulation 6
Fri 25: Happy Memorial Day Weekend 1
Fri 25: A Portland Neighborhood Reclaims its Streets 2
Wed 23: In DUMBO a Parking Lot Will Become a Piazza 2
Fri 18: Battery Park City: An Opportunity for Innovative Street Design 6
Tue 8: Ninth Street Update: Robert's Rules of Order 24
Thu 3: The Benefits of a "Road Diet." 1
Wed 2: This is How State Senator Eric Adams Celebrates Bike Month? 29
Wed 2: When Streets Are for People 7
April 2007
Fri 27: Eyes on the Street: Parking it for Lunch in London 1
Fri 27: Tell Marty Markowitz You Support DOT's 9th Street Plan 6
Thu 26: Fun With Numbers (Or: The PlaNYC Index) 1
Fri 20: The Ultimate System: Free Mass Transit and Congestion Pricing 15
Thu 19: Visions of a Grander Grand Army Plaza 1
Thu 19: Grand Plans for Brooklyn's Iconic Public Space 7
Thu 19: Toronto Politician on Bike Lanes and the Future of Cycling 1
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
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: City Pitches in for Yankee Stadium Parking 16
Wed 4: Study: Sidewalks Can't Handle Transit Traffic 8
Tue 3: Pedestrian and Bike Improvements Coming to Grand Army Plaza 36
March 2007
Thu 29: Sneak Peek at DOT's Plan for Park Slope's 9th Street 18
Thu 29: Should DOT Install Separated Bike Lanes on 9th Street? 8
Thu 29: Vanderbilt Avenue: The Model for DOT's 9th Street Proposal? 12
Wed 14: StreetFilms: One Way is the Wrong Way 10
Mon 12: Insta-Bus Rapid Transit for Lower Manhattan 1
Sun 11: Quick Bus and Ped Improvements Coming to Lower Broadway 10
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
Fri 23: Green Revolution Sweeping Through U.S. Cities 0
Thu 22: The "Speed Lump." Not a Typo. It's Inexpensive Traffic Calming. 6
Tue 20: PlanNYC 2030: What makes a Community Sustainable? 4
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
Fri 9: Robert Moses's Fundamental Misunderstanding 28
Tue 6: New York New Visions Tackles "Sustainable" New York Future 2
January 2007
Wed 24: StreetFilms: Berkeley's Bike Boulevards 7
Wed 17: Homemade Traffic Calming in Mexico's Yucatan 13
Wed 17: Traffic Signals Timed for Bicycling 13
Wed 10: Playable Streets 3
Wed 10: New Traffic Island Makes News, Takes a Beating 20
Thu 4: Streetscape Aesthetics vs. Pedestrian Safety 32
Tue 2: New Year's Resolution: Physically Separated Bike Lanes in '07 49
December 2006
Sun 31: Setting the Agenda on Pedestrian Safety 29
Fri 22: Small Step for Pedestrians & Cyclists; Giant Leap for NYC 8
Fri 22: New German Community Models Car-Free Living 2
Wed 20: Meeting Tonight on Westside Greenway Bike Safety 9
Wed 20: Streetfilms: On-Street Bicycle Parking, Portland 9
Mon 18: Wider Sidewalks & a Bicycle Park-and-Ride for Williamsburg 68
Thu 14: Streetfilms: Curbing Cars in Soho 6
Thu 14: Rethinking Soho 47
Fri 8: Seoul's New Heart 10
Fri 8: Chicago: A City Whose Mayor Cares About Bicycling 12
Fri 1: Sidewalk Parking Opponents Gain Ground in . . . Where? 10
November 2006
Thu 30: Safe Routes to Schools Study Complete 4
Wed 29: New Bike Lanes and Markings for the Lower East Side 23
Tue 21: Speed Hump 1
Mon 20: Speak Up to Keep the Willoughby Street Pedestrian Plaza 1
Mon 20: The Debate Over Physically-Separated Bike Lanes Continues 59
Fri 17: Transit-Oriented Development in Jersey City 7
Thu 16: A Streetsblog Reader Wins Traffic Calming Improvements 6
Wed 15: New Bike Stencils Completed on the Lower East Side 8
Tue 14: The Idea of Rising Sea Levels is Sinking In 1
Tue 14: Designing the Ideal Taxi Stand for New York City 9
Mon 13: London's Cycling Design Standards: A Model for NYC? 11
Mon 13: Gridlock Sam Tells the Story of NYC's First Bike Lanes 18
Mon 13: Birth of a Class III Bike Route 10
Fri 10: T is for Transit-Oriented Development 61
Thu 9: DOT to Neighborhood: Your School's in the Way of Our Highway 7
Wed 8: Car-Free Manhattan: Just Wait 100 Years 1
Wed 8: Connecting Urban Design and Public Health 0
Tue 7: Reverse Engineering Pedestrian Safety in Boerum Hill 16
Mon 6: Cyclists and Pedestrians: Fighting Over the Scraps 23
Fri 3: DOT Culture: Stifling Innovation on NYC's Streets? 9
Fri 3: NYC Gets its First Pedestrian Countdown Timer 8
Fri 3: New Bike Markings For Brooklyn's Fifth Ave. This Month 6
October 2006
Tue 31: T.O.D. in Brooklyn: Turning Parking Lots into Housing 11
Fri 27: Foreign Correspondent: Bogotá's Lack of "Vibrancy" 5
Fri 27: Life on Crutches in NYC 3
Thu 26: Downtown Brooklyn Traffic Calming Project: Ten Years On 5
Wed 25: Pedestrian-Friendly Changes for Grand Army Plaza 11
Wed 25: MTA Response to Pokey: Traffic Congestion = "Vibrancy" 10
Tue 24: DOT Announces Five Bus Rapid Transit Corridors 33
Thu 19: Streetfilms: Car-Free Bedford Avenue 2
Mon 9: Great New Website: Get Outta MyBikeLane 9
Mon 9: NYC Finally Cracking Down on Security Barriers 1
Fri 6: Eyes on the Street: Amsterdam 6
Wed 4: Notes on Bicycling in Copenhagen 18
Tue 3: Traffic's Human Toll 0
Tue 3: Danish Bike Cargo 12
September 2006
Fri 29: Blogging From Copenhagen 3
Thu 28: Learning From a Streets Renaissance in Hong Kong 9
Wed 27: Another Model: Berkeley's Bicycle Boulevard Network 12
Tue 26: Beyond Thermoplast, Street Signs and Signal Timing 21
Mon 25: More Park(ing) Photos From San Fran 1
Mon 25: Streetfilms: Park(ing) Day San Francisco 0
Wed 20: Endless Summer on Brooklyn's Fifth Avenue 4
Thu 14: U.K. Study Finds Wearing a Bike Helmet May be More Dangerous 8
Mon 11: Binghamton Revitalizing Around Livable Downtown 0
Fri 8: Midtown's Mini-Plaza 13
Thu 7: Super Staten Solar Stop Signs 0
Tue 5: Is DOT Doing Enough to Make NYC Bike-Friendly? 24
August 2006
Thu 31: Rally for a Livable Houston Street 8
Tue 29: Dead Ball 4
Mon 28: The Suburbanization of NYC's Waterfront 12
Thu 24: Streetfilm: The Transformation of Willoughby Street 10
Wed 23: Pedestrian Safety Competition at the Jersey Shore 1
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
Fri 11: Guess-the-Suburb Winner Is: Matt 5
Fri 11: Traffic Continues to Disappear in Paris 2
Wed 9: Report Calls for Radical Rethink of New York Area Planning 6
Wed 9: Can You Name the Town? 18
July 2006
Wed 26: Gridlock in Williamsburg 0
Tue 25: Houston Street Redesign: The $30 Million Missed Opportunity 4
Tue 25: Revisiting Houston Street, One Month Later 0
Thu 20: City Council Screening of "Contested Streets" 0
Thu 20: Hugh Hardy: Architect Calls for Fresh Take on Public Life 9
Mon 17: Traffic Engineering by Body Count 2
Sun 16: Vehicle City 0
Tue 11: Unwarranted Traffic Chaos in Red Hook 5
Thu 6: Canal Street Edge: From Bucolic to Frenetic 0
Wed 5: Municipal Arts Society Today on WNYC, 12 noon 0
June 2006
Thu 29: Atlantic Yards Traffic and Parking 0
Thu 29: Other Cities' Mayors on Bicycling 4
Thu 29: Cyclists Rally at City Hall 2
Wed 28: Jane Jacobs: A Public Celebration 0
Mon 26: EcoPolis: Envisioning the City of the Future 0