Recent Streetsblog USA posts about New York

Upstate NY Mayor: People Who Bike in the Winter “Should Be Arrested”

By Angie Schmitt | Jan 6, 2014 | 162 Comments

Mayor Jeffrey Graham of Watertown, New York (population 27,000), has an interesting way of expressing his concern for people out on the streets in these wintry conditions. Speaking on a local radio show, Graham let it slip that he doesn’t think too highly of folks who travel without a car in the snow. At about […]

NYC’s Next Transportation Commissioner Is Polly Trottenberg

By Ben Fried | Jan 2, 2014 | No Comments

Bill de Blasio has appointed U.S. DOT Under Secretary for Policy Polly Trottenberg to lead the New York City Department of Transportation. Trottenberg is a veteran federal policy maker, whose resume includes stints working for New York Senator Daniel Patrick Moynihan on the 1998 federal transportation bill and for Senator Chuck Schumer. At the Obama […]

New Layer of Red Tape From FHWA Threatens to Delay NYC Bike Projects

By Ben Fried | Dec 20, 2013 | No Comments

The Federal Highway Administration is seeking to impose a new layer of bureaucratic review on New York City bike projects, which could significantly delay the implementation of street redesigns that have proven to reduce traffic injuries and deaths. According to a source in city government, FHWA wants the New York State DOT to review each […]

NYC DOT Shares Its Five Principles for Designing Safer Streets

By Ben Fried | Nov 22, 2013 | No Comments

Earlier this month, NYC DOT put out a major new report, Making Safer Streets [PDF], that collects before-and-after data from dozens of street redesigns and distills five key principles to reduce traffic injuries. The excitement of election week overshadowed the release, but this is an important document that livable streets supporters will want to bookmark. […]

“If/Then”: A Review of the Broadway-Bound Musical About City Planning

By Liisa Ecola | Nov 11, 2013 | 26 Comments

What rhymes with “waterfront redevelopment plan”? I wondered that after recently reading that the storyline of an upcoming musical whose plot revolves around a 40-ish city planner moving to New York. Clearly a musical needs a larger audience than 40-something women with city planning degrees, but as the bulls-eye of their target demographic, I felt […]

Setbacks and Victories For Urbanism in Yesterday’s Mayoral Races

By Angie Schmitt | Nov 6, 2013 | 42 Comments

Mayoral elections broke both ways for livability in American cities yesterday: The results of some may slow progress on transit and street safety, while one-midsized city elected an executive who campaigned strongly on light rail expansion and bikeability. The biggest story was Cincinnati’s mayoral race, where Queen City voters backed Democrat John Cranley by a […]

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