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Discussion: Gary Toth will participate in a discussion to create a roadmap for active living.

By dkitzes on Nov 20, 2008 | Add Comment

Gary will participate in a discussion as a part of the National Center for Bicycling and Walking’s Active Living Resource Center. The purpose of the meeting is to create a roadmap to both encourage communities to become more pedestrian and bicycle-friendly, and provide them the technical assistance to do so.

The Roadmap will hopefully create [...]

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Join Us in Support of T4America Tomorrow, October 15!

By Robin Lester on Oct 14, 2008 | Add Comment

PPS partner Transportation For America is a growing and diverse coalition focused on creating a national transportation program that will take America into the 21st century by building a modernized infrastructure to support healthy communities where people can live, work and play. This effort is centered primarily on influencing Congress’ reauthorization of federal [...]

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Brooklyn’s Myrtle Avenue Primed for Promenade

By Robin Lester on Sep 30, 2008 | Add Comment

Existing conditions on Myrtle Ave service road.

Brooklyn’s Myrtle Avenue, once notoriously crime-ridden, has made amazing strides in the last several years. Today, thanks to the hard work of the Myrtle Avenue Revitalization Project, the street is now a bustling thoroughfare home to restaurants and shops, many of them owned by local [...]

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PPS Partners with AARP

By Robin Lester on Sep 26, 2008 | Add Comment

Today, PPS’s Gary Toth appears on Streetsblog to talk about engaging the DOT, as well as to discuss A Citizen’s Guide to Better Streets, one of three new PPS books to be published in conjunction with AARP.

The PPS-AARP partnership aligns with both PPS’s Building Community Through Transportation [...]

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Freeways to Boulevards

By Robin Lester on Sep 23, 2008 | Add Comment

The Congress for the New Urbanism has just published a list of the top ten aging elevated highways that are ripe for removal and redesign.  The removal of these highways could lead to revitalization movements in the cities and regions they currently occupy.

A large percentage of these highways are located in the northeast. [...]

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PPS Does Parking Day!

By Robin Lester on Sep 18, 2008 | Add Comment

Park(ing) Day is an international event that reclaims over 200 parking spots in 50 cities around the world and transforms them into engaging public spaces for one day a year. In NYC, this event creates small, temporary public spaces that provide a breath of relief from the auto-clogged reality of the city. For more info [...]

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Places in the News: September 18, 2008

By Robin Lester on Sep 15, 2008 | Add Comment
Urban agriculture is a growing industry [The Star] Ethisphere predicts the most sustainable cities in the year 2020 [Ethisphere] Londoners lobby for the use of Segways in public spaces [County Times] A new focus on reviving the US’s urban waterfronts [Kitsap Sun] Park(ing) Day – September 19, [...]
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Revitalizing Cities with Streetcars

By Robin Lester on Aug 20, 2008 | 2 Comments

A recent New York Times article highlighted the resurgence of the street car in cities across America.  While extremely popular at the turn of the last century, many streetcar systems were dismantled in favor of the automobile.  Today, streetcars are being used to revitalize cities and recreate important connections between neighborhoods and services.
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NYC DOT Launches New Public Plaza Program

By span@pps.org on Jul 16, 2008 | Add Comment

                                                  Photo Source: NYC DOT


      The NYC Department of Transportation (DOT) launched a program recently that will transform underused New York City streets into lively and social public plazas. The program calls [...]

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Cyclists Take to the Streets in NYC

By Robin Lester on Jun 25, 2008 | Add Comment

Following the lead of innovative cities such as Bogota, El Paso, Ottowa, Guadalajara and Paris, New York City is shifting its focus from cars to people on its streets.  Through its Summer Streets program, the city will close down a 6.9-mile stretch of road to cars on three consecutive Saturdays between the Brooklyn Bridge [...]

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Road Diet, Parks Planned for the Bund in Shanghai

By mkodransky@pps.org on May 30, 2008 | Add Comment
Photo Courtesy of China Daily (April, 2006)

East-1 Zhongshan Road in Shanghai’s landmark Bund area is about to get a serious road diet. Decades ago, it was a tree-lined boulevard that served as a gateway to the region’s financial and global trade core. Today, it looks more like a moat full of vehicle [...]

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Citizen-Led Transportation Reforms in San Francisco

By mkodransky@pps.org on May 26, 2008 | Add Comment




Photo Source: San Jose/Guerrero Coalition to Save Our Streets

San Jose Avenue and Guerrero Street in San Francisco have been transformed over the years through the the efforts of the San Jose/Guerrero Coalition to Save Our [...]

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