Numbers from New York City should be death knell to vehicular cycling policies The New York City Department of Transportation recently released its 2009 Sustainable Streets Index report with the most definitive proof yet that good cycling infrastructure is a huge part of getting people to use bicycles as an alternative to cars. The report [...]
Posts Tagged ‘public space’
Time Square goes car-free indefinitely
As part of the work of New York City Department of Transportation Commissioner Janette Sadik-Khan to retake city streets as public space, parts of Time and Herald Squares were closed in the last week to all automobile traffic indefinitely. This is part of an overall plan to reduce traffic by removing cars from Broadway between 42nd [...]
NYC DOT Commissioner makes space for people, not cars
I just finished watching this video at Bike Portland and was completely blown away with what New York City has accomplished in a very short time under their new DOT Commissioner, Janette Sadik-Khan. She’s only been at work as the Commissioner for about a year and a half, but look at what has been accomplished! [...]
NO CARS?!
According to this story in the Irish Times, Dublin is considering banning cars from driving into the city center, mostly because they just flat out can’t build any more roads to accommodate the increase in drivers. Instead of doing something like bulldozing their classic downtown buildings or building multi-level superhighways, Dublin is considering something much [...]
