Comments on: In Newark, Community Empowerment via Traffic Calming

By: Reworking Newark | Mobilizing the Region

Reworking Newark | Mobilizing the Region — Wed, 24 Aug 2011 18:57:05 +0000

[...] have focused on traffic calming along the Newark section of the East Coast Greenway and around Broad Street Station, and have led to tangible improvements such as better pedestrian signage and more visible [...]

By: Traffic Calming and Community Empowerment, Year 2: Newark’s East Coast Greenway « Mobilizing the Region

Tue, 28 Jul 2009 14:41:42 +0000

[...] Over half raised their hands, in a memorable moment from a traffic calming curriculum held on Monday, July 13 and Friday, July 17. For the second year in a row, the curriculum combined classroom and field components to highlight the relationships between pedestrian safety, land-use and environmentalism, and how communities can organize around these important issues. MTR covered the curriculum’s first year in this article. [...]

By: Profiles in Government Dysfunction « Mobilizing the Region

Profiles in Government Dysfunction « Mobilizing the Region — Mon, 13 Apr 2009 14:49:12 +0000

[...] August, Tri-State and the Greater Newark Conservancy organized a walking tour around the Broad Street train station for local high school students. Students identified [...]

By: Kate Slevin

Kate Slevin — Thu, 07 Aug 2008 16:13:51 +0000

Cap’n Transit, True, but the broader point of the story is that walking tours like these, which are focused on traffic calming, can help the teenagers understand how to get involved in larger community issues that shape the fabric of their cities.

By: Cap'n Transit

Cap'n Transit — Thu, 07 Aug 2008 12:58:13 +0000

Many students pointed out that the abundance of parking lots and desolation along the route would make them feel unsafe walking the street at night.

Traffic calming won’t help that, but infill development that creates a welcoming sidewalk space would. Related, but separate.