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Showing posts with label pedestrians. Show all posts
Showing posts with label pedestrians. Show all posts
Friday, August 9, 2024

Summer Streets: What else you got?

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In August of 2011 I wrote a series of posts about Summer Streets. The first one focused on how the program just left me wanting more, and...
Tuesday, September 6, 2016

New traffic patterns, new driving habits

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I'm not a traffic engineer, but I know that old habits die hard. I also know that it's possible to create new habits, and once thos...
Tuesday, April 5, 2016

Visit Saint George!

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Staten Island is home to beautiful parks, lovely architecture, tasty restaurants and fascinating museums. As Joby Jacob and I recently docu...
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Monday, January 18, 2016

We need to stop converting streets to one-way

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New York is famous for its livable streets revolution, where Janette Sadik-Khan, with the backing of Mayor Bloomberg, turned the city Depart...
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Thursday, June 18, 2015

Who's getting out of the way of the buses?

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The Transit Workers' Union Local 100 has been campaigning against New York's recently enacted Right of Way law, which gives the pol...
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Sunday, January 11, 2015

Crossing the Yards

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One of the arguments given by proponents of decking the Sunnyside Yards is that Sunnyside is cut off from Astoria and Long Island City by t...
Tuesday, December 23, 2014

The NYPD brutalizes all pedestrians

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Remember when the Department of Transportation seemed so conservative and car-oriented, when it looked like Mike Primeggia was going to be ...
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Thursday, July 24, 2014

Why we need a Brooklyn Bridge cycle track

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I remember when you could walk or bike over the Brooklyn Bridge at almost any hour and not feel crowded. Those days are long past: walking ...
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Wednesday, February 12, 2014

The missing denominator is pedestrians

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Every year or so, the Tri-State Transportation Campaign produces a report of The Region's Most Dangerous Roads for Walking. It's im...
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Friday, January 31, 2014

Big trucks on Northern Boulevard

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As I wrote last month, there were multiple factors that all contributed to the death of eight-year old Noshat Nahian under the wheels of Mau...
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Wednesday, January 8, 2014

Ten things Trottenberg can do for pedestrians

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Back in 2009, when Janette Sadik-Khan had only been New York City Transportation Commissioner for a year, I offered five things that she co...
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Wednesday, May 22, 2013

The Island of Sausage Heros

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Last week I was walking down Woodhaven Boulevard along Saint John's Cemetery, and I came across a food truck selling Italian sausage her...
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Monday, April 8, 2013

Will "Willets West" relieve Flushing Meadows's parking curse?

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One of the least pleasant things about Flushing Meadows is the sheer amount of parking, as I've helpfully highlighted for you on the Goo...
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Sunday, December 9, 2012

Tweaking congestion by time of day

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Last week I observed that we have a degree of control over the speed of cars and the level of congestion on streets. We can design streets ...
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Tuesday, December 4, 2012

Tweaking congestion

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A bunch of people liked my post last week about the 85th Percentile Rule, in which I reformulated the rule to incorporate pedestrian and cy...
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Monday, November 26, 2012

Why the 85th Percentile Rule still matters

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Earlier this month Pedro Madruga at Copenhagenize found a really bad zombie rule that continues to wreak havoc all over the world: the 85th...
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Wednesday, November 21, 2012

Squatting and bullying on the sidewalk

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There are two related, interconnected phenomena involving the use of public space: squatting and bullying. Squatting is taking over a publi...
Thursday, November 15, 2012

A grand bargain for walkable streets

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As I wrote before, after the failure of Mayor Bloomberg's congestion pricing campaign in 2008, advocates realized that the plan had fail...
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