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April 2008

4/29: Sadik-Khan Introduces the New York City Model 13
4/25: Streetfilm: The Transformation of Meat Market Plaza 11
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
4/11: Bronx County Courthouse Plaza Gets a Makeover 18
4/10: Today the Périphérique. Tomorrow the FDR. 3
4/09: Eyes on the Street: Get Ready for the New Gansevoort 21
4/09: Finally, Parking Meters Where Bikes Belong 6
4/08: Plan B: Reallocating Street Space To Buses, Bikes & Peds 7
4/08: Tonight: Support a Bike-Friendly North Brooklyn 1

March 2008

3/18: Envisioning a More Livable Columbus Avenue 8
3/14: DOT Launches Bike Rack Design Competition 3
3/13: In Istanbul, a Burgeoning Livable Streets Movement 2
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

2/22: Let's Chop Up Superblocks 21
2/20: Ideas Competition for Brooklyn's Grandest Plaza 17
2/15: Citizens Propose Cycle Track Greenway Connector in Inwood 28
2/15: City Planning: Fourth Avenue a "Missed Opportunity" 28
2/14: Pint-Sized Parks Make Safer Streets and Cleaner Rivers 16
2/14: Drivers Ed. Campaign to Accompany Portland Bike Boxes 3
2/06: New York Can Do Better Than the "New Fourth Avenue" 38
2/05: Reinventing Grand Army Plaza on Lopate Tomorrow 1

January 2008

1/15: Will the Tide Turn on City Parking Policy? 8
1/11: Another New Bike Shelter 12
1/10: Times Square: Too Many People, or Just Too Many Cars? 14
1/10: StreetFilm: How to Use a Bike Box 22
1/08: What is Your Idea for Grand Army Plaza? 1
1/04: A Year After Eric Ng's Death, Greenway Hazards Remain Unfixed 42
1/03: The Case Against Pull-in Angle Parking 21
1/02: Sleek Bike Parking Facilities Appear in Queens and Brooklyn 32

December 2007

12/20: City's First Bike Share Planned for Governors Island 8
12/19: Rocky Road 26
12/13: Reinventing Grand Army Plaza: What Are Your Ideas? 8
12/12: Blinding Headlights Make Part of West Side Greenway Unusable 28
12/11: New Grand Army Plaza Concept is "Brilliantly Obvious" 16
12/11: Manhattan Bridge Bike & Ped Improvements Nearing Completion 19
12/07: Replace Penn Station Rats' Warren With a Pedestrian Boulevard 5

November 2007

11/28: New Bleecker Bike Lane Already Blocked by Parked Cars 34
11/15: R-E-S-P-E-C-T: DOT to Install Sleek New Bike Parking Shelters 46
11/15: Prince Street Bike Lane Has Arrived 16
11/13: Crosstown Bike Lanes Remain in the Crosshairs 16
11/12: DOT Rolls Out Fort Greene Bike Lanes & Traffic-Calming 12
11/12: In Amsterdam Cyclists Always Get the Green Light 2
11/12: Nasty Newsrack Photo Contest Finalists 18
11/08: DOT Rolls Out the New Lower Manhattan Crosstown Bike Route 6
11/07: Jan Gehl: Gridlocked Streets Are "Not a Law of Nature" 8
11/07: Shared Space on the Brooklyn Bridge 71

October 2007

10/31: Happy Halloween From Clarence the Purple Traffic Wizard 11
10/30: Brooklyn's Myrtle Avenue Renaissance 1
10/30: New Bike Lanes and Sharrows Lead to the Brooklyn Bridge 36
10/17: Illinois Adopts "Complete Streets" Into Law 8
10/15: Indianapolis Paves the Way for Bikes and Pedestrians 26
10/10: Is Transportation Reform Possible When the Cops Don't Care? 28
10/08: Renewed Calls for Ped Safety Summit as Death Toll Mounts 5
10/04: GAPCo Wins Design Trust Fellowship 0
10/04: A Ride Down NYC's "Street of the Future" 35
10/03: New Ninth Avenue Separated Bike Path is Already in Place 17
10/02: DOT Minds the GAP 9

September 2007

9/27: Meat Market Plaza is Open for Business 7
9/21: Making the Case for Compact Development 8
9/20: NYC Gets Its First-Ever Physically-Separated Bike Path 128
9/14: German Town Chooses Human Interaction Over Traffic Signals 8
9/13: Does New York Need a 'New Moses'? 24
9/13: A Gehl Dispatch From Down Under 2
9/12: DOT Launches Gehl Street Survey Project 12
9/04: Queens Pedestrian Safety Fixes Move Ahead Despite Opposition 0

August 2007

8/31: City Promises $5M in Ped Safety Improvements at Mural Opening 13
8/28: Queens Leaders Fight Safety Fixes for Fatal School Crossing 25
8/27: Bike & Ped Improvements Slated for Manhattan Bridge Approach 18
8/24: Survey Finds That Buffered Bike Lanes Are Better 17
8/17: Pay Phones May Be a Bad Call for City 14
8/15: A Brooklyn Parking Lot Becomes a Neighborhood "Living Room" 5
8/14: Video Shows Dangers of Upper East Side Bike Plan 50
8/13: Tonight: Traffic-Calming Mural Preview & Fundraiser 3
8/10: City Launches "Public Plaza Initiative" at DUMBO Pocket Park 21
8/09: Paint a Parking Lot, Put up a Paradise 1
8/03: Saturday Evening in Jackson Heights, Queens: Feel the Pain 44
8/02: Melbourne, Australia After a Decade of Focus on Public Spaces 12
8/02: Famed Danish Urbanist Jan Gehl in Town to Consult on PlaNYC 8
8/01: Fear and Loathing on the Upper East Side 17
8/01: Meatpacking Plaza Update 3

July 2007

7/31: A Solution to Stroller Rage 48
7/25: Ninth Ave. and 14th Street Redesign Update 0
7/19: CB8 Shoots Down Upper East Side Crosstown Bike Route Plan 38
7/18: The London Model is Dead. Time to Look at Paris. 13
7/13: More Meatpacking Plaza Construction Photos 1
7/12: Construction of Piazza de Meatpacking is Underway 3
7/12: New High-Visibility Bike Lanes in Brooklyn 34
7/12: An NYC First: On-Street Parking Spaces Replaced by Bike Racks 26
7/09: It's Getting Better All the Time 1
7/06: Push to Declutter England's Streets 3
7/02: Berlin's Bicycle Boom 2

June 2007

6/25: Brooklyn Greenway Initiative Benefit This Thursday 1
6/22: Meatpacking District Will Get a Makeover 9
6/19: Will the Revitalized High Bridge be Bike-Friendly? 42
6/14: Brooklyn Community Board Supports DOT's 9th Street Plan 0
6/13: Brainstorming a New Vision for Midtown's East River Waterfront 13
6/05: Fantasy Island 6
6/01: City Wants 20,000 New Parking Spaces in Hell's Kitchen 26

May 2007

5/30: LA.Streetsblog: The Joy of Poor Circulation 6
5/25: Happy Memorial Day Weekend 1
5/25: A Portland Neighborhood Reclaims its Streets 2
5/23: In DUMBO a Parking Lot Will Become a Piazza 2
5/18: Battery Park City: An Opportunity for Innovative Street Design 6
5/08: Ninth Street Update: Robert's Rules of Order 24
5/03: The Benefits of a "Road Diet." 1
5/02: This is How State Senator Eric Adams Celebrates Bike Month? 29
5/02: When Streets Are for People 7

April 2007

4/27: Eyes on the Street: Parking it for Lunch in London 1
4/27: Tell Marty Markowitz You Support DOT's 9th Street Plan 6
4/26: Fun With Numbers (Or: The PlaNYC Index) 1
4/20: The Ultimate System: Free Mass Transit and Congestion Pricing 15
4/19: Visions of a Grander Grand Army Plaza 1
4/19: Grand Plans for Brooklyn's Iconic Public Space 7
4/19: Toronto Politician on Bike Lanes and the Future of Cycling 1
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
4/10: The Plan: Making Brooklyn's 9th Street Safer for Everyone 0
4/10: Updated Version of DOT's 9th Street Plan 9
4/10: Take a Minute to Fax in Your Support for DOT's 9th Street Plan 0
4/09: City Pitches in for Yankee Stadium Parking 16
4/04: Study: Sidewalks Can't Handle Transit Traffic 8
4/03: Pedestrian and Bike Improvements Coming to Grand Army Plaza 36

March 2007

3/29: Sneak Peek at DOT's Plan for Park Slope's 9th Street 18
3/29: Should DOT Install Separated Bike Lanes on 9th Street? 8
3/29: Vanderbilt Avenue: The Model for DOT's 9th Street Proposal? 12
3/14: StreetFilms: One Way is the Wrong Way 10
3/12: Insta-Bus Rapid Transit for Lower Manhattan 1
3/11: Quick Bus and Ped Improvements Coming to Lower Broadway 10
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
2/23: Green Revolution Sweeping Through U.S. Cities 0
2/22: The "Speed Lump." Not a Typo. It's Inexpensive Traffic Calming. 6
2/20: PlanNYC 2030: What makes a Community Sustainable? 4
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
2/09: Robert Moses's Fundamental Misunderstanding 28
2/06: New York New Visions Tackles "Sustainable" New York Future 2

January 2007

1/24: StreetFilms: Berkeley's Bike Boulevards 7
1/17: Homemade Traffic Calming in Mexico's Yucatan 13
1/17: Traffic Signals Timed for Bicycling 13
1/10: Playable Streets 3
1/10: New Traffic Island Makes News, Takes a Beating 20
1/04: Streetscape Aesthetics vs. Pedestrian Safety 32
1/02: New Year's Resolution: Physically Separated Bike Lanes in '07 49

December 2006

12/31: Setting the Agenda on Pedestrian Safety 29
12/22: Small Step for Pedestrians & Cyclists; Giant Leap for NYC 8
12/22: New German Community Models Car-Free Living 2
12/20: Meeting Tonight on Westside Greenway Bike Safety 9
12/20: Streetfilms: On-Street Bicycle Parking, Portland 9
12/18: Wider Sidewalks & a Bicycle Park-and-Ride for Williamsburg 68
12/14: Streetfilms: Curbing Cars in Soho 6
12/14: Rethinking Soho 47
12/08: Seoul's New Heart 10
12/08: Chicago: A City Whose Mayor Cares About Bicycling 12
12/06: Bollard Porn 29
12/01: Sidewalk Parking Opponents Gain Ground in . . . Where? 10

November 2006

11/30: Safe Routes to Schools Study Complete 4
11/29: New Bike Lanes and Markings for the Lower East Side 23
11/21: Speed Hump 1
11/20: Speak Up to Keep the Willoughby Street Pedestrian Plaza 1
11/20: The Debate Over Physically-Separated Bike Lanes Continues 59
11/17: Transit-Oriented Development in Jersey City 7
11/16: A Streetsblog Reader Wins Traffic Calming Improvements 6
11/15: New Bike Stencils Completed on the Lower East Side 8
11/14: The Idea of Rising Sea Levels is Sinking In 1
11/14: Designing the Ideal Taxi Stand for New York City 9
11/13: London's Cycling Design Standards: A Model for NYC? 11
11/13: Gridlock Sam Tells the Story of NYC's First Bike Lanes 18
11/13: Birth of a Class III Bike Route 10
11/10: T is for Transit-Oriented Development 61
11/09: DOT to Neighborhood: Your School's in the Way of Our Highway 7
11/08: Car-Free Manhattan: Just Wait 100 Years 1
11/08: Connecting Urban Design and Public Health 0
11/07: Reverse Engineering Pedestrian Safety in Boerum Hill 16
11/06: Cyclists and Pedestrians: Fighting Over the Scraps 23
11/03: DOT Culture: Stifling Innovation on NYC's Streets? 9
11/03: NYC Gets its First Pedestrian Countdown Timer 8
11/03: New Bike Markings For Brooklyn's Fifth Ave. This Month 6

October 2006

10/31: T.O.D. in Brooklyn: Turning Parking Lots into Housing 11
10/27: Foreign Correspondent: Bogota's Lack of "Vibrancy" 4
10/27: Life on Crutches in NYC 3
10/26: Downtown Brooklyn Traffic Calming Project: Ten Years On 5
10/25: Pedestrian-Friendly Changes for Grand Army Plaza 11
10/25: MTA Response to Pokey: Traffic Congestion = "Vibrancy" 10
10/24: DOT Announces Five Bus Rapid Transit Corridors 33
10/19: Streetfilms: Car-Free Bedford Avenue 2
10/09: Great New Website: Get Outta MyBikeLane 8
10/09: NYC Finally Cracking Down on Security Barriers 1
10/06: Eyes on the Street: Amsterdam 6
10/04: Notes on Bicycling in Copenhagen 18
10/03: Traffic's Human Toll 0
10/03: Danish Bike Cargo 12

September 2006

9/29: Blogging From Copenhagen 3
9/28: Learning From a Streets Renaissance in Hong Kong 9
9/27: Another Model: Berkeley's Bicycle Boulevard Network 12
9/26: Beyond Thermoplast, Street Signs and Signal Timing 21
9/25: More Park(ing) Photos From San Fran 1
9/25: Street Films: Park(ing) Day San Francisco 0
9/20: Endless Summer on Brooklyn's Fifth Avenue 4
9/14: U.K. Study Finds Wearing a Bike Helmet May be More Dangerous 8
9/11: Binghamton Revitalizing Around Livable Downtown 0
9/08: Midtown's Mini-Plaza 13
9/07: Super Staten Solar Stop Signs 0
9/05: Is DOT Doing Enough to Make NYC Bike-Friendly? 24

August 2006

8/31: Rally for a Livable Houston Street 8
8/28: The Suburbanization of NYC's Waterfront 12
8/24: Street Film: The Transformation of Willoughby Street 10
8/23: Pedestrian Safety Competition at the Jersey Shore 1
8/21: Where in the City is this? 13
8/15: Chinatown Business Group Proposes Car-Free Streets 7
8/14: Brooklyn's Fort Greene Fights for Livable Streets 3
8/11: Guess-the-Suburb Winner Is: Matt 5
8/11: Traffic Continues to Disappear in Paris 2
8/09: Report Calls for Radical Rethink of New York Area Planning 6
8/09: Can You Name the Town? 18

July 2006

7/26: Gridlock in Williamsburg 0
7/25: Houston Street Redesign: The $30 Million Missed Opportunity 4
7/25: Revisiting Houston Street, One Month Later 0
7/20: City Council Screening of "Contested Streets" 0
7/20: Hugh Hardy: Architect Calls for Fresh Take on Public Life 9
7/17: Traffic Engineering by Body Count 2
7/16: Vehicle City 0
7/11: Unwarranted Traffic Chaos in Red Hook 5
7/06: Canal Street Edge: From Bucolic to Frenetic 0
7/05: Municipal Arts Society Today on WNYC, 12 noon 0

June 2006

6/29: Atlantic Yards Traffic and Parking 0
6/29: Other Cities' Mayors on Bicycling 4
6/29: Cyclists Rally at City Hall 2
6/28: Jane Jacobs: A Public Celebration 0
6/26: EcoPolis: Envisioning the City of the Future 0