Recent Streetsblog USA posts about Traffic Calming

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. […]

Petitioning U.S. DOT to Recognize That City Streets Should Prioritize Walking

By Angie Schmitt | Jun 10, 2013 | 15 Comments

The Federal Highway Administration classifies roads as either “rural” or “urbanized.” But the “urbanized” label is deceptive, because it applies suburban street design standards to any street that isn’t rural. So if you live in, say, downtown St. Louis, the FHWA applies the same standards to your streets as to the streets in Orlando’s most […]

Seatbelts and Tickets Alone Won’t Cure America’s Traffic Death Epidemic

By Tanya Snyder | Nov 17, 2010 | 4 Comments

Motor vehicle crashes caused 28 percent of all deaths among people 24 and under in the United States in 2006. In 2009, nearly 34,000 people died on America’s roads, and that was considered a big improvement over previous years. More and more, it seems, Americans are wondering why our country is so far behind on […]

How Many Trips Are ‘Captured’ By More Diverse Urban Land Use?

By Elana Schor | Sep 8, 2009 | No Comments

Current methods of predicting the traffic-calming effects of mixed-use development are "woefully lacking" and risk underestimating the transportation benefits of more compact, diverse land use, according to a new report from the Transportation Research Board (TRB). An example of mixed-use development in San Francisco. (Photo: Arch. Record) The TRB report is the first to examine […]

Solve the Congestion Crisis And Win $50,000

By Elana Schor | Jun 1, 2009 | 6 Comments

Have you ever idled in traffic or waited for a late bus while thinking: "The city government should put me in charge of fixing this mess"? Good solutions to this could net you $50,000. (Photo: ITSA) Well, it’s time to make notes on that brilliant traffic-calming idea. The Intelligent Transportation Society of America (ITSA) kicked […]

T.A. Offers Reward for Park Slope “Post-Automobile Street” Designs

By Brad Aaron | Jul 7, 2008 | 10 Comments

9th St. and 4th Ave.: "A dangerous crossing that divides surrounding neighborhoods and inhibits street life." Transportation Alternatives is seeking proposals to reinvent the intersection of 9th Street and 4th Avenue in Park Slope. "Designing the 21st Century Street," a competition open to the general public, will reward the three most promising submissions with up […]

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