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Missing the point on how to reduce traffic deaths

The cost of traffic accidents is horrendous, but epidemiologists and The New York Times seem at a loss as to how to combat it.

0 Thu, Sep 2nd 2010 7:29am
Cuts in New Jersey school busing could be good for kids

Many New Jersey schools have eliminated "courtesy busing" for students living within 2 miles — a move that could help fight obesity, Zoe Baldwin argues.

0 Thu, Sep 2nd 2010 8:34am
New York's variable-price parking program proves a boon to a Brooklyn neighborhood

Higher parking prices at busy times are allowing businesses in Brooklyn's Park Slope neighborhood to serve more customers, a review of the city's Park Smart program finds.

0 Fri, Aug 27th 2010 11:35am
Complete Streets to increase biking and walking

To help increase bicycling and walking trips and reduce deaths and injuries, 121 jurisdictions across the country have adopted Complete Streets policies since 1971.

0 Mon, Aug 9th 2010 11:30am
Water Street in Lower Manhattan

In the 1960s, New York City drew up a plan that converted Water Street in Lower Manhattan  into a wide thoroughfare lined by sleek modern office towers. Now, recognizing that hardly anyone enjoys this broad thoroughfare, the Alliance for Downtown New York, representing businesses in Lower Manhattan, is pressing to give the corridor a more pedestrian-friendly character.

0 Mon, Aug 9th 2010 11:24am
New York rushes to prevent intrusive driveways

New York planners have mobilized to ward off a threat to the character of residential streets: insertion of new driveways and garages into pedestrian-friendly blocks of old rowhouses.

0 Sat, Aug 7th 2010 1:06pm
To save lives, shift from arterial roads

Arterial roads — especially those with heavy traffic volumes, high speeds, and strip commercial development such as big-box stores — are undermining Americans’ safety. The extent of the danger was investigated recently by Eric Dumbaugh and Wenhao Li of the Department of Landscape Architecture and Urban Planning at Texas A&M.

0 Thu, Aug 5th 2010 1:22pm
Gridded, tree-shaded neighborhood replaces Kentucky's oldest public housing

 Kentucky's oldest public housing project, a crime-plagued complex in Lexington, is replaced by a HOPE VI mix of housing on a tree-shaded street grid.

0 Wed, Aug 4th 2010 6:08pm
Hoboken introduces car-sharing on city streets

Hoboken, New Jersey, this spring launched Corner Cars, a program that places car-sharing vehicles in special bright green parking spots on the streets — typically one every few blocks. Connect by Hertz is paying the city $100 a month for each on-street parking spot reserved for its vehicles.

0 Wed, Jul 21st 2010 3:43pm
Taming a Long Island artery

The New York State Department of Transportation will begin converting a 15-mile stretch of suburban highway into “a kind of suburban boulevard” this spring.

0 Fri, Jun 11th 2010 2:13pm
Hartford debates fate of I-84

0 Fri, Jun 11th 2010 2:13pm
TIGER grants highlight new transportation paradigm

Less money for highways, more for transit and “complete streets” in $1.5 billion in grants.

0 Fri, Jun 11th 2010 2:13pm
Lessons on street design from Abu Dhabi

Gulf region takes context-sensitive roadway design to a new level.

0 Fri, Jun 11th 2010 2:13pm
Sidewalks: Conflict and Negotiation over Public Space

By Anastasia Loukaitou-Sideris and Renia Ehrenfeucht
On the whole, though, Sidewalks seems geared more to social justice advocates than to people who are trying to bring vitality and prosperity to urban locales.

0 Fri, Jun 11th 2010 2:13pm
Lack of money to build streets impedes regional transformation

Even in smart growth strongholds like Portland, Oregon, new walkable neighborhoods are rare because of scant funds.

0 Fri, Jun 11th 2010 2:13pm

Research

New York's variable-price parking program proves a boon to a Brooklyn neighborhood

Higher parking prices at busy times are allowing businesses in Brooklyn's Park Slope neighborhood to serve more customers, a review of the city's Park Smart program finds.

0 Fri, Aug 27th 2010 11:35am
To save lives, shift from arterial roads

Arterial roads — especially those with heavy traffic volumes, high speeds, and strip commercial development such as big-box stores — are undermining Americans’ safety. The extent of the danger was investigated recently by Eric Dumbaugh and Wenhao Li of the Department of Landscape Architecture and Urban Planning at Texas A&M.

0 Thu, Aug 5th 2010 1:22pm
Key to safer roads is identified in California study

A review of fatalities in 24 cities shows that safety grows as street networks become denser.

0 Tue, Feb 16th 2010 2:16pm

Research

Key to safer roads is identified in California study

A review of fatalities in 24 cities shows that safety grows as street networks become denser.

Transformations

Rebuilding of Route 62 in Hamburg, NY

Route 62 in the Village of Hamburg, New York, was a typical state highway, with 12-foot travel lanes, 6 signalized intersections, about 20,000 cars a day and significant truck traffic.

Redesign of suburban arterial into boulevard in Bothell, WA

Freeways give way to boulevards — slowly

For every two successes, there seems to be one setback.

Franklin Street, Portland, ME

In the 1960s misguided officials reamed a neighborhood in Portland, Maine,

Conversion of a pair of high-speed one-way streets

Cleveland West Shoreway

Editor's Picks

‘Shared-space’ streets cross the Atlantic

Cities in the western and eastern US are starting to let motorists and pedestrians deal with one another more intuitively.

0 Tue, Feb 16th 2010 2:15pm

Resources