Recent Streetsblog USA posts about Livable Streets

StreetFilm: Room to Breathe

By Sarah Goodyear | Apr 2, 2007 | 6 Comments

Room to BreatheA StreetFilm by Clarence Eckerson Jr.Running Time: 3 minutes 41 seconds Inspired by a poster produced by Portland’s Bicycle Transportation Alliance (BTA) in the mid-1990s, this weekend Transportation Alternatives gathered a gaggle of cyclists on 42nd Street in Manhattan to stage New York’s own dramatic illustration of how much street space would be […]

Things Heating Up Over at UncivilServants.org

By Sarah Goodyear | Mar 19, 2007 | 14 Comments

Over at the site UncivilServants.org, the Transportation Alternatives project where readers can post photos of illegally parked cars sporting government-issued parking permits (like the court officers above who are comfortably ensconced in a no-parking zone on Crosby Street), there’s a hot thread on whether showing the plate numbers of the vehicles constitutes a potentially dangerous […]

Park Slope says: “One Way? No Way.” CB6 says: “Let’s Study It.”

By Sarah Goodyear | Mar 19, 2007 | 9 Comments

In the aftermath of last Thursday’s CB6 transportation committee meeting on the DOT’s proposal to convert Sixth and Seventh Avenues in Park Slope, Brooklyn to one-way arterials, some observers are noting that the motion that came out of the meeting may not accurately reflect the input of the nearly 700 people who came out to […]

Parking Permit Abusers Being Cleared from Chinatown?

By Sarah Goodyear | Mar 13, 2007 | 3 Comments

A Chinatown tipster sent along these remarkable pictures yesterday of what seems to be an effort to cut down on placarded vehicles clogging the neighborhood’s streets: There are white paper signs posted on lamp poles and parking meters that say "No Permit Area, Tow Away Zone." Lo and behold, there are hardly any cars with […]

Report from Atlanta: Don’t Walk This Way

By Sarah Goodyear | Mar 9, 2007 | 23 Comments

I can’t get behind Prevention Magazine’s ranking of New York as 39th among the nation’s most walkable cities. But after spending three days in Atlanta for a conference recently, I have no problem understanding why it rates 86th. Stuck, like most of the city’s legions of conventioneers, in the area around the Peachtree Center, I […]

Feds Withhold Fatal-Accident Info from Public

By Sarah Goodyear | Mar 8, 2007 | 5 Comments

An article in the LA Times (reg required) details how the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration has systematically withheld information on fatal accidents from the public, even going so far as to deny Freedom of Information Act requests from researchers. R.A. Whitworth, whose Maryland-based company conducts highway safety research for attorneys, insurance companies and even […]

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