Broadway reconstruction project in New York
Chen Yong   Nov 14.2018
Description Maps
Broadway is one of New York's most famous north-south streets, south of Battery Park, from southeast to northwest across the entire island of Manhattan. The New York city was built in a flat, vertical network of streets, and Broadway was the only street lucky enough to keep its course.

Introduction

The inclined street in the middle of the city and other regular road network formed a number of intersections, for modern traffic organization has brought numerous troubles, but also provides a number of distinctive corner squares.

However, the economic recovery and the prosperity of tourism have not made it a human place for public activities. Broadway has been facing increasingly serious problems such as traffic congestion, traffic accidents and vehicle emissions, especially the intersections of the streets have long been occupied by cars.

In 2007, mayor Michael Bloomberg proposed building a "greener, greater New York," advocating the use of transportation innovation to reshape the urban public sphere, to create human streets and squares, and to enhance the city's vitality, environment and quality of life. Under the joint impetus of Bloomberg and TSA, DOT( Department of Transportation) initiated a Broadway renovation pilot project, attempting to change the priority of existing road space allocation, redefine and design street public space, explore the best balance between space quality, traffic safety and urban efficiency, and build it into a world-class first-class street.

Broadway reconstruction project in New York

Reason to Be Selected

Street transformation in Broadway in the US is Beyond the social and economic objectives of the material environment. It has Placed pedestrian activities and bicycle traffic above motor vehicles and even public transport, and emphasize the connotation of street life. Furthermore, the project has built a multi professional platform. Street renewal is a comprehensive project which covers many departments and specialties. It should not only stay at the level of material environment improvement and aesthetics. Finally, the project has Emphasized the construction of the public space of the process. Design-oriented strategies can improve the quality of the physical environment, but in the long run, they cannot effectively and sustainably solve some of the social problems that occur in public spaces.

Highlights:

Create publicity

Enhance safety

Improve traffic

Details

(1) Create publicity

Space reset. Re-dividing Broadway according to user priorities (pedestrian-bicycle-motor vehicle) is the core of the street transformation. It is generally adopted to reduce motor lanes and parking belts, increase pedestrian traffic and recreational space, and optimize the walking environment.

Street furniture. A large number of public recreational tables and chairs and street greening landscape are added to the designated walking activity sites to attract residential activities. People can freely move these public tables and chairs and umbrellas and choose the most comfortable way to use them.

Recommended

(2) Enhance safety

Intersection design. The original angle intersection is simplified and simplified to reduce the conflict between people and vehicles.

Fast and slow isolation. Slow traffic such as pedestrians and bicycles can be properly isolated from motor vehicles by setting up parking belts, buffer belts or street view facilities along the street.

(3) Improve traffic

Cycle path. In addition to the full pedestrian area, south-facing bicycle lanes and bicycle rental stations have been added to the revamped sections, forming a network with the city's shared bicycle system, and reducing bicycle and motor vehicle conflicts through the isolation of parking areas or pedestrian venues to ensure the safety of cyclists.

Bus routes. The unified planning of bus routes in the whole area and the adjustment of all the southbound bus routes that used to run on Broadway to Seventh Avenue will not only reduce the traffic pressure on Broadway, but also make the buses avoid complicated corner intersections and improve the operational efficiency of public transport.

Conclusions

The transformation experiment on Broadway not only increases walking space as much as possible, but also creates a high-quality environment that encourages and enriches people's social interaction and enjoys life. And the pedestrian experiment, which took place in the heart of the traditional automobile-oriented nation of the United States, itself meant a huge success in public space and inspired the transformation of the same types of streets in other cities, thus becoming a pioneering case for emulation. But recently the controversy over this globally renowned space project has begun, and the new mayor, Bill de Blasio, has even come up with the idea of recapturing Times Square with cars.

 

FULL STORY:

TOPICS | New York | Intelligent | Compositive

reference:

New York Department of Transportation. Sustainable Streets: 2013 and Beyond [R]. New York: New York Department of Transportation, 2013.

New York Department of Transportation. Sustainable Streets: 2008 and Beyond [R]. New York: New York Department of Transportation, 2008

Clarence Eckerson Jr. Times Square Then and Now: A Streetfilms Retrospective[EB/OL]. 

Project for Public Spaces. Times Square Debate Lays Bare the Importance of Proactive Public Space Management[EB/OL].



Lat: 40.758
Lng: -73.985
Type:
Region: NorthAmerica
Scale: District
Field: Compositive
City: New York
2008-2020 IKCEST All rights reserved
ICP备案号：京ICP备14021735号-1