There are new efforts under way to widen sidewalks and even to slow traffic down.

The city is also in the midst of a $10 million campaign to widen sidewalks, plant hundreds of trees and replace the grim urban lights with more friendly street lamps.

To the Editor: Eighth Street merchants aren't the only ones opposed to narrowing the roadway just to widen sidewalks ("How Narrow Is Too Narrow?"

The city spent $190 million more to repave streets, widen sidewalks and add parks.

The city designed the program to lure private investors to the area by rebuilding streets and bridges, widening sidewalks, demolishing dilapidated buildings and planting flowers and trees.

The Greater Municipality have plans to widen sidewalks at Ali Münif Caddesi and re-route some of the local transit to another street.

The makeover has widened sidewalks, added lighting and made downtown the kind of place where a stroller may want to linger.

A contested plan to widen sidewalks along part of Eighth Street has received the support of leading Community Board 2 officials, and construction may begin as early as next spring.

When complete, the bridge will have widened sidewalks and bike lanes.

A $2.5 million redesign of South Orange Avenue, which will widen sidewalks and slow speeding traffic, is scheduled to begin this summer.