Reader Niles Ray sends in this bird's-eye view of bike lane construction on Eighth Avenue at 37th Street.
The extension of protected bike lanes on Eighth and Ninth Avenues was proposed by DOT last year, and won subsequent community board approval. The lanes and pedestrian islands will provide safer passage for cyclists and pedestrians north to 59th Street, providing access to the huge numbers of jobs in west Midtown.
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The former federal transit official, who had a second career as one of the most prolific writers of letters to the editors of scores of area newspapers, died on Thursday.
Jersey pols have spent big and talked big on their anti-congestion pricing efforts as their own transit agency has fallen into disrepair.
Data shared with Streetsblog shows school buses traveling faster and being late less since congestion pricing began.
The mayor is going down to Mar-a-Lago to meet with President-elect Trump, eh? Plus other news.
