Recent Streetsblog USA posts about Bike/Ped

Bike Snob NYC Shows You How It’s Done

By Sarah Goodyear | Oct 25, 2007 | 15 Comments

One of the keenest and most unforgiving observers of bike culture in this town, in all its glory and absurdity, is the blogger Bike Snob NYC. A couple of weeks back, he posted a chronicle of his bike commute from Brooklyn to Manhattan that had me shaking my head in recognition at every turn. […]

Bogotá’s Peñalosa Talks Up Livable Streets, Sans Spandex

By Brad Aaron | Oct 22, 2007 | 3 Comments

Filed by April Greene Guillermo ("Gil") Peñalosa has a message for you. Actually, he has about 100, but they all packed very nicely into his two hour presentation last Thursday night at Harlem’s Adam Clayton Powell Jr. State Office Building. The former Parks Commissioner of Bogotá, Colombia, joined by members of the Harlem Community Development […]

Indianapolis Paves the Way for Bikes and Pedestrians

By Ethan Kent | Oct 15, 2007 | 26 Comments

Construction is underway on what may be the nation’s most advanced urban greenway system. Indianapolis, Indiana is making what could be the boldest step of any North American city towards supporting bicyclists and pedestrians. Known as an extremely auto-oriented city, most closely associated with the Indianapolis 500, this is one of the last cities we […]

1,200 Pack Town Hall for “How New Yorkers Ride Bikes”

By Aaron Naparstek | Oct 8, 2007 | 5 Comments

Streetfilms’ Clarence Eckerson was at Town Hall on Saturday night for the New Yorker Festival’s "How New Yorkers Ride Bikes," hosted by former Talking Heads frontman David Byrne. Clarence wasn’t allowed to film the event so he published a nice write-up on StreetFilms. Some excerpts: Mr. Byrne, dressed in black and sporting his cool taxi-yellow […]

Doubts About DOT Congestion Prescription in Jax Heights

By Sarah Goodyear | Oct 3, 2007 | 1 Comment

Community activists in Jackson Heights have been complaining about congestion at the corner at 73rd St. and 37th Ave. (right) for years. A major traffic study of the area is underway, but according to a DOT spokesman, the department didn’t want to wait to implement "short-term initiatives" that could ease the problem. Problem is, some […]

Meat Market Plaza is Open for Business

By Aaron Naparstek | Sep 27, 2007 | 7 Comments

The interim redesign of Ninth Avenue and 14th Street is done. Tables, chairs, planters and some of those giant granite blocks from DOT’s Bridges Division have been set out as multipurpose bollard-bench-tables atop a gravelly, earth-tone pavement surface. What was very recently one of the longest and most hectic pedestrian crossings in Manhattan, and no […]

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