Recent Streetsblog USA posts about Livable Streets

Take Back the Streets, for the Kids

By Sarah Goodyear | Jul 2, 2007 | 1 Comment

An article in Sunday’s New York Times discussed the decline of stickball and other games on city streets: The fun stopped, or moved inside, depending upon whom you ask, thanks to (pick two or three): television; two-income families; air-conditioning; digital technology; organized sports, crime; smaller families and roomier apartments; too much homework and other responsibilities; […]

No Love for One-Way Proposal in Jackson Heights

By Sarah Goodyear | Jun 29, 2007 | 7 Comments

Congestion in Jackson Heights: The DOT needs some new ideas The Queens Times-Ledger reports on the "cool reception" given last week by Queens Community Board 3 and City Council Member Hiram Monserrate to the DOT’s proposal for a one-way pair of streets on 35th and 37th avenues. What’s most disappointing about the debate so far […]

Jackson Heights: New Front in One-Way Battle

By Sarah Goodyear | Jun 19, 2007 | 9 Comments

A view of 35th Ave. in Jackson Heights, part of the DOT’s proposed one-way pair for the neighborhood Apparently undeterred by the resounding community rejection of proposed one-way streets in Park Slope in March, the city’s Department of Transportation is proposing changing two major thoroughfares in Jackson Heights from two-way to one-way. The proposal, which […]

Call for Ped Safety Measures on Third and Fourth Avenues

By Sarah Goodyear | Jun 11, 2007 | 1 Comment

A third-grader was hit on her way to school here two weeks ago. You have to move fast to beat the turning traffic on Fourth Avenue. DOT Deputy Commissioner for Brooklyn Dalila Hall faced some tough questioning from members of the public at a meeting on pedestrian safety on Third and Fourth avenues in Brooklyn […]

Motor Vehicles Leading Cause of NYC Child Injury Deaths

By Sarah Goodyear | May 30, 2007 | No Comments

According to a new study out from the city’s Department of Health, children in New York are seven times less likely than children nationwide to die as car passengers. That’s the good news, likely the result of the fact that our kids spend a lot less time in cars than most American children. The bad […]

T.A. Rides with the Mayors of Sydney & Copenhagen

By Jason Varone | May 18, 2007 | 2 Comments

T.A. Rides with the Mayors of Sydney & Copenhagen A StreetFilm by Clarence Eckerson Jr. Running Time: 3 minutes 3 seconds On the closing day of New York City’s historic C40 Climate Summit, Lord Mayor Clover Moore of Sydney, Australia and Copenhagen’s Mayor of the Technical & Environmental Administration Klaus Bondam took a lunch break […]

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