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- Thu 8:
What Kind of Pedestrian Are You?
- Tue 15:
Planetizen Unveils Its Top 100 Urban Thinkers
- Fri 11:
The Pedestrian Crush: It Doesn't Have to Be Like This
- Wed 19:
When Dodging Death Becomes a Fact of Life
- Fri 1:
DOT: Nine New Public Plazas in the Works
- Tue 21:
New Video Series Tells the Story of Sprawl
- Mon 13:
Streetfilms: London's Campaign for People-First Public Spaces
- Tue 23:
DOT Shows Off Grand Concourse Improvements
- Wed 17:
Wiki Wednesday: San Francisco's Better Streets Plan
- Thu 11:
San Francisco Mayor to NYC: "Eat Your Heart Out."
- Mon 1:
Pedestrians, Bus Riders, and Cyclists Get a Better Bronx Hub
- Fri 14:
CityRacks Winner: It's a Standing O
- Thu 13:
Tonight: See the Blueprint for a New Upper West Side
- Wed 12:
Design Comp Winner Envisions Neighborhood Bike-Share for Red Hook
- Thu 6:
Designing NYC Streets for the 21st Century
- Mon 20:
New Duffy Square Adds Glass Crown Atop Broadway Boulevard
- Fri 10:
Public Picks Grand Army Plaza Design
- Thu 9:
Jan Gehl Reflects on San Francisco's Fisherman's Wharf
- Wed 1:
New MTA Grates Double as Seating, Bike Racks
- Wed 1:
Weigh in on the Future of City Bike Racks
- Wed 17:
Grand Army Plaza, Reinvented
- Fri 5:
Bloomberg, Sadik-Khan to Hold 11:00 Madison Square Presser
- Thu 4:
Share Your Green Urban Story
- Tue 26:
In Week of Carnage, Times Looks Askance at Broadway Traffic-Calming
- Wed 13:
Commerce Bank to Cyclists: Your Money's No Good Here
- Mon 28:
Astor Place Moves Closer to Becoming a Great Public Space
- Wed 23:
Livable Streets Projects Getting Hung Up in Budget Bureaucracy?
- Wed 23:
Weiner Invokes Jane Jacobs, Endorses "Alternative Modes"
- Mon 7:
T.A. Offers Reward for Park Slope "Post-Automobile Street" Designs
- Thu 26:
Ikea Tests Bike-Share in Denmark. Why Not NYC?
- Wed 25:
Want a New Public Plaza in Your Neighborhood? Apply Now.
- Thu 19:
Streetfilms: Depaving Day in Portland
- Mon 16:
DOT Gives Its Regards to Broadway
- Tue 29:
Sadik-Khan Introduces the New York City Model
- Fri 25:
Streetfilm: The Transformation of Meat Market Plaza
- Tue 15:
Après Congestion Pricing, It's Time to Look at the Paris Model
- Tue 15:
In the Heights: City Aims to Make 181st a Complete Street
- Fri 11:
Bronx County Courthouse Plaza Gets a Makeover
- Thu 10:
Today the Périphérique. Tomorrow the FDR.
- Wed 9:
Eyes on the Street: Get Ready for the New Gansevoort
- Wed 9:
Finally, Parking Meters Where Bikes Belong
- Tue 8:
Plan B: Reallocating Street Space To Buses, Bikes & Peds
- Tue 8:
Tonight: Support a Bike-Friendly North Brooklyn
- Tue 18:
Envisioning a More Livable Columbus Avenue
- Fri 14:
DOT Launches Bike Rack Design Competition
- Thu 13:
In Istanbul, a Burgeoning Livable Streets Movement
- Fri 7:
Car-Free Washington Place? Not in My Driveway, Say Residents
- Wed 5:
"Better Transit Bake Sale" to Raise $5.65 Billion to Fund Mass Transit
- Wed 5:
Meeting Tonight on Beseiged Plan to Calm NYU Campus
- Fri 22:
Let's Chop Up Superblocks
- Wed 20:
Ideas Competition for Brooklyn's Grandest Plaza
- Fri 15:
Citizens Propose Cycle Track Greenway Connector in Inwood
- Fri 15:
City Planning: Fourth Avenue a "Missed Opportunity"
- Thu 14:
Pint-Sized Parks Make Safer Streets and Cleaner Rivers
- Thu 14:
Drivers Ed. Campaign to Accompany Portland Bike Boxes
- Wed 6:
New York Can Do Better Than the "New Fourth Avenue"
- Tue 5:
Reinventing Grand Army Plaza on Lopate Tomorrow
- Tue 15:
Will the Tide Turn on City Parking Policy?
- Fri 11:
Another New Bike Shelter
- Thu 10:
Times Square: Too Many People, or Just Too Many Cars?
- Thu 10:
StreetFilm: How to Use a Bike Box
- Tue 8:
What is Your Idea for Grand Army Plaza?
- Fri 4:
A Year After Eric Ng's Death, Greenway Hazards Remain Unfixed
- Thu 3:
The Case Against Pull-in Angle Parking
- Wed 2:
Sleek Bike Parking Facilities Appear in Queens and Brooklyn
- Thu 20:
City's First Bike Share Planned for Governors Island
- Wed 19:
Rocky Road
- Fri 14:
What Makes a Place Walkable?
- Thu 13:
Reinventing Grand Army Plaza: What Are Your Ideas?
- Wed 12:
Blinding Headlights Make Part of West Side Greenway Unusable
- Tue 11:
New Grand Army Plaza Concept is "Brilliantly Obvious"
- Tue 11:
Manhattan Bridge Bike & Ped Improvements Nearing Completion
- Fri 7:
Inom Tullarna: The Ancient Roots of Congestion Pricing
- Fri 7:
Replace Penn Station Rats' Warren With a Pedestrian Boulevard
- Wed 28:
New Bleecker Bike Lane Already Blocked by Parked Cars
- Thu 15:
R-E-S-P-E-C-T: DOT to Install Sleek New Bike Parking Shelters
- Thu 15:
Prince Street Bike Lane Has Arrived
- Tue 13:
Crosstown Bike Lanes Remain in the Crosshairs
- Mon 12:
DOT Rolls Out Fort Greene Bike Lanes & Traffic-Calming
- Mon 12:
In Amsterdam Cyclists Always Get the Green Light
- Mon 12:
Nasty Newsrack Photo Contest Finalists
- Thu 8:
DOT Rolls Out the New Lower Manhattan Crosstown Bike Route
- Wed 7:
Jan Gehl: Gridlocked Streets Are "Not a Law of Nature"
- Wed 7:
Shared Space on the Brooklyn Bridge
- Wed 31:
Happy Halloween From Clarence the Purple Traffic Wizard
- Tue 30:
Brooklyn's Myrtle Avenue Renaissance
- Tue 30:
New Bike Lanes and Sharrows Lead to the Brooklyn Bridge
- Wed 17:
Illinois Adopts "Complete Streets" Into Law
- Mon 15:
Indianapolis Paves the Way for Bikes and Pedestrians
- Wed 10:
Is Transportation Reform Possible When the Cops Don't Care?
- Mon 8:
Renewed Calls for Ped Safety Summit as Death Toll Mounts
- Thu 4:
GAPCo Wins Design Trust Fellowship
- Thu 4:
A Ride Down NYC's "Street of the Future"
- Wed 3:
New Ninth Avenue Separated Bike Path is Already in Place
- Tue 2:
DOT Minds the GAP
- Thu 27:
Meat Market Plaza is Open for Business
- Fri 21:
Making the Case for Compact Development
- Thu 20:
NYC Gets Its First-Ever Physically-Separated Bike Path
- Fri 14:
German Town Chooses Human Interaction Over Traffic Signals
- Thu 13:
Does New York Need a 'New Moses'?
- Thu 13:
A Gehl Dispatch From Down Under
- Wed 12:
DOT Launches Gehl Street Survey Project
- Tue 4:
Queens Pedestrian Safety Fixes Move Ahead Despite Opposition
- Fri 31:
City Promises $5M in Ped Safety Improvements at Mural Opening
- Tue 28:
Queens Leaders Fight Safety Fixes for Fatal School Crossing
- Tue 28:
City Issues Call for Pricing Tech Designs
- Mon 27:
Bike & Ped Improvements Slated for Manhattan Bridge Approach
- Fri 24:
Survey Finds That Buffered Bike Lanes Are Better
- Wed 22:
Transit-Oriented America, Part 3: Three More Cities
- Fri 17:
Pay Phones May Be a Bad Call for City
- Wed 15:
A Brooklyn Parking Lot Becomes a Neighborhood "Living Room"
- Tue 14:
Video Shows Dangers of Upper East Side Bike Plan
- Mon 13:
Tonight: Traffic-Calming Mural Preview & Fundraiser
- Fri 10:
City Launches "Public Plaza Initiative" at DUMBO Pocket Park
- Thu 9:
Paint a Parking Lot, Put up a Paradise
- 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
- Wed 1:
Fear and Loathing on the Upper East Side
- Wed 1:
Meatpacking Plaza Update
- Tue 31:
A Solution to Stroller Rage
- Wed 25:
Ninth Ave. and 14th Street Redesign Update
- Thu 19:
CB8 Shoots Down Upper East Side Crosstown Bike Route Plan
- Wed 18:
The London Model is Dead. Time to Look at Paris.
- Fri 13:
More Meatpacking Plaza Construction Photos
- Thu 12:
Construction of Piazza de Meatpacking is Underway
- Thu 12:
New High-Visibility Bike Lanes in Brooklyn
- Thu 12:
An NYC First: On-Street Parking Spaces Replaced by Bike Racks
- Mon 9:
It's Getting Better All the Time
- Fri 6:
Push to Declutter England's Streets
- Fri 6:
The Suburbanist Paradox
- Mon 2:
Berlin's Bicycle Boom
- Mon 25:
Brooklyn Greenway Initiative Benefit This Thursday
- Fri 22:
Meatpacking District Will Get a Makeover
- Tue 19:
Will the Revitalized High Bridge be Bike-Friendly?
- Thu 14:
Brooklyn Community Board Supports DOT's 9th Street Plan
- Wed 13:
Brainstorming a New Vision for Midtown's East River Waterfront
- Tue 12:
DOT: Bergtraum to CUNY, Primeggia to Copenhagen
- Tue 5:
Fantasy Island
- Fri 1:
City Wants 20,000 New Parking Spaces in Hell's Kitchen
- Wed 30:
LA.Streetsblog: The Joy of Poor Circulation
- Fri 25:
Happy Memorial Day Weekend
- Fri 25:
A Portland Neighborhood Reclaims its Streets
- Wed 23:
In DUMBO a Parking Lot Will Become a Piazza
- Fri 18:
Battery Park City: An Opportunity for Innovative Street Design
- Tue 8:
Ninth Street Update: Robert's Rules of Order
- Thu 3:
The Benefits of a "Road Diet."
- 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:
Fun With Numbers (Or: The PlaNYC Index)
- 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
- Thu 19:
Toronto Politician on Bike Lanes and the Future of Cycling
- Wed 18:
Bus Bulbs Are Blooming
- Fri 13:
DOT Called Out for Lacking Clear Ped Safety Plan
- 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:
City Pitches in for Yankee Stadium Parking
- Wed 4:
Study: Sidewalks Can't Handle Transit Traffic
- Tue 3:
Pedestrian and Bike Improvements Coming to Grand Army Plaza
- Thu 29:
Sneak Peek at DOT's Plan for Park Slope's 9th Street
- Thu 29:
Should DOT Install Separated Bike Lanes on 9th Street?
- Thu 29:
Vanderbilt Avenue: The Model for DOT's 9th Street Proposal?
- Wed 14:
StreetFilms: One Way is the Wrong Way
- Mon 12:
Insta-Bus Rapid Transit for Lower Manhattan
- Sun 11:
Quick Bus and Ped Improvements Coming to Lower Broadway
- Fri 2:
The Iris Weinshall Legacy: Queens Boulevard
- Wed 28:
DOT to Propose Radical New Traffic Plan for Park Slope
- Mon 26:
3 Peds Hit on 9th Ave. 2 Dead. Mayor Mike: Where Are You?
- Fri 23:
Streetfilms: Intersection Intervention
- Fri 23:
Green Revolution Sweeping Through U.S. Cities
- Thu 22:
The "Speed Lump." Not a Typo. It's Inexpensive Traffic Calming.
- Tue 20:
PlanNYC 2030: What makes a Community Sustainable?
- Mon 19:
DOT Pledged Ped Safety Fixes by 2006 on Deadly Third Ave
- Thu 15:
Plan Urged Safety Measures for Intersection Where Boy Died
- Fri 9:
Robert Moses's Fundamental Misunderstanding
- Tue 6:
New York New Visions Tackles "Sustainable" New York Future
- Wed 24:
StreetFilms: Berkeley's Bike Boulevards
- Wed 17:
Homemade Traffic Calming in Mexico's Yucatan
- Wed 17:
Traffic Signals Timed for Bicycling
- Wed 10:
Playable Streets
- Wed 10:
New Traffic Island Makes News, Takes a Beating
- Thu 4:
Streetscape Aesthetics vs. Pedestrian Safety
- Tue 2:
New Year's Resolution: Physically Separated Bike Lanes in '07
- Sun 31:
Setting the Agenda on Pedestrian Safety
- Fri 22:
Small Step for Pedestrians & Cyclists; Giant Leap for NYC
- Fri 22:
New German Community Models Car-Free Living
- Wed 20:
Meeting Tonight on Westside Greenway Bike Safety
- Wed 20:
Streetfilms: On-Street Bicycle Parking, Portland
- Mon 18:
Wider Sidewalks & a Bicycle Park-and-Ride for Williamsburg
- Thu 14:
Streetfilms: Curbing Cars in Soho
- Thu 14:
Rethinking Soho
- Fri 8:
Seoul's New Heart
- Fri 8:
Chicago: A City Whose Mayor Cares About Bicycling
- Fri 1:
Sidewalk Parking Opponents Gain Ground in . . . Where?
- Thu 30:
Safe Routes to Schools Study Complete
- Wed 29:
New Bike Lanes and Markings for the Lower East Side
- Tue 21:
Speed Hump
- Mon 20:
Speak Up to Keep the Willoughby Street Pedestrian Plaza
- Mon 20:
The Debate Over Physically-Separated Bike Lanes Continues
- Fri 17:
Transit-Oriented Development in Jersey City
- Thu 16:
A Streetsblog Reader Wins Traffic Calming Improvements
- Wed 15:
New Bike Stencils Completed on the Lower East Side
- Tue 14:
The Idea of Rising Sea Levels is Sinking In
- Tue 14:
Designing the Ideal Taxi Stand for New York City
- Mon 13:
London's Cycling Design Standards: A Model for NYC?
- Mon 13:
Gridlock Sam Tells the Story of NYC's First Bike Lanes
- Mon 13:
Birth of a Class III Bike Route
- Fri 10:
T is for Transit-Oriented Development
- Thu 9:
DOT to Neighborhood: Your School's in the Way of Our Highway
- Wed 8:
Car-Free Manhattan: Just Wait 100 Years
- Wed 8:
Connecting Urban Design and Public Health
- Tue 7:
Reverse Engineering Pedestrian Safety in Boerum Hill
- Mon 6:
Cyclists and Pedestrians: Fighting Over the Scraps
- Fri 3:
DOT Culture: Stifling Innovation on NYC's Streets?
- Fri 3:
NYC Gets its First Pedestrian Countdown Timer
- Fri 3:
New Bike Markings For Brooklyn's Fifth Ave. This Month
- Tue 31:
T.O.D. in Brooklyn: Turning Parking Lots into Housing
- 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
- Wed 25:
Pedestrian-Friendly Changes for Grand Army Plaza
- Wed 25:
MTA Response to Pokey: Traffic Congestion = "Vibrancy"
- Tue 24:
DOT Announces Five Bus Rapid Transit Corridors
- Thu 19:
Streetfilms: Car-Free Bedford Avenue
- Mon 9:
Great New Website: Get Outta MyBikeLane
- Mon 9:
NYC Finally Cracking Down on Security Barriers
- Fri 6:
Eyes on the Street: Amsterdam
- 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:
Beyond Thermoplast, Street Signs and Signal Timing
- Mon 25:
More Park(ing) Photos From San Fran
- Mon 25:
Streetfilms: Park(ing) Day San Francisco
- Wed 20:
Endless Summer on Brooklyn's Fifth Avenue
- Thu 14:
U.K. Study Finds Wearing a Bike Helmet May be More Dangerous
- Mon 11:
Binghamton Revitalizing Around Livable Downtown
- Fri 8:
Midtown's Mini-Plaza
- Thu 7:
Super Staten Solar Stop Signs
- Tue 5:
Is DOT Doing Enough to Make NYC Bike-Friendly?
- Thu 31:
Rally for a Livable Houston Street
- Tue 29:
Dead Ball
- Mon 28:
The Suburbanization of NYC's Waterfront
- Thu 24:
Streetfilm: The Transformation of Willoughby Street
- Wed 23:
Pedestrian Safety Competition at the Jersey Shore
- Mon 21:
Where in the City is this?
- Tue 15:
Chinatown Business Group Proposes Car-Free Streets
- Mon 14:
Brooklyn's Fort Greene Fights for Livable Streets
- Fri 11:
Guess-the-Suburb Winner Is: Matt
- Fri 11:
Traffic Continues to Disappear in Paris
- Wed 9:
Report Calls for Radical Rethink of New York Area Planning
- Wed 9:
Can You Name the Town?
- Wed 26:
Gridlock in Williamsburg
- Tue 25:
Houston Street Redesign: The $30 Million Missed Opportunity
- Tue 25:
Revisiting Houston Street, One Month Later
- Thu 20:
City Council Screening of "Contested Streets"
- Thu 20:
Hugh Hardy: Architect Calls for Fresh Take on Public Life
- Mon 17:
Traffic Engineering by Body Count
- Sun 16:
Vehicle City
- Tue 11:
Unwarranted Traffic Chaos in Red Hook
- Thu 6:
Canal Street Edge: From Bucolic to Frenetic
- Wed 5:
Municipal Arts Society Today on WNYC, 12 noon
- Thu 29:
Atlantic Yards Traffic and Parking
- Thu 29:
Other Cities' Mayors on Bicycling
- Thu 29:
Cyclists Rally at City Hall
- Wed 28:
Jane Jacobs: A Public Celebration
- Mon 26:
EcoPolis: Envisioning the City of the Future