Brooklyn’s Livable Streets: Before and After
April 25, 2014
Thanks to Google Map’s new timeline feature, you can now take a digital before-and-after tour of some of the city’s best livable streets improvements.
Here’s Gorilla Coffee on 5th Ave in Park Slope in 2007:
And here’s the same location in 2013, after the installation of a bike corral:
Space for one car or space for eight bikes…and one scooter!
Here’s Prospect Park West in 2009, before the installation of the protected bike lane:
And here it is in 2010:
You can clearly see the effect this road diet had on the boulevard’s traffic.
And here’s one of my favorite before-and-afters in Brooklyn. Sands Street in 2007:
And Sands Street in 2012:
Pretty remarkable.
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Brooklyn Spoke 
Bike corrals are great (we already know parking availability is linked with driving, I suspect there could also be a connection with riding), but I have to object to 5th Ave appearing under the headline “Brooklyn’s Livable Streets”
Other than during rush hour I much prefer the rightly-maligned Jay St to 5th Ave.
Fair point! Perhaps a better title is “Brooklyn’s Livable Streets Improvements.”
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