mikelydon.bsky.social
Co-Founder @ Street Plans | Co-Author #TacticalUrbanism, Smart Growth Manual, Streets for Pandemic Response + Recovery | Board Member @ Congress for New Urbanism | Creator Open_Streets Project | Léo + Luca’s dad | 📍 Brooklyn, NY 🚲 🚶 🚌 🌆
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Yeah… these guys aren’t known for their listening or conversational skills. 😑
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Dumbo continues to function, the 5% of residents who drive to work continue to park. What if we just never brought the parking back at full scale? Would that be so awful? If we think of streets as abundant places for people rather than scarce places to park we reframe what and who the city is for.
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🙌🏻 Thanks for all of the work, Yonah!
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The city heals when we prioritize people.
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Here is what we learned: people loved the quieter, safer, more inclusive public realm.
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Our SoHo Broadway Public Realm Framework + Vision plan anticipated congestion pricing would further amp up pedestrian spatial demands in the district. One of Four Key Moves: pedestrianize Prince between Broadway and Mercer. We tested Little Prince Plaza over four successive weekends. It works-LFG!
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Depending on who you are this might sound scary or exciting.
In reality, I think it’s reasonable. We were in a place where 85%+ of the existing housing wasn’t even legal.
Now the houses that make up Cambridge, are allowed once again.
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@annieweinstock.bsky.social alerted me that both corridors are being studied by @nyc-dot.bsky.social and could include upgrades and additions to the existing bus/bike networks. These will be tough sells to CB3 but would support routes with already high 🚌 🚲 ridership.
www.nyc.gov/html/dot/dow...
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I believe the corrals were the last item to be completed along this new 1.5-mile north-south link in the #BikeNYC network. Let’s hope Lafayette and Dekalb are up next. Those two E-W corridors would link Bushwick, Bed-Stuy, Clinton Hill, Fort Greene, + DT Brooklyn, adding another 5.5 miles of PBLs.