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This Week: DOT Shows Fourth Avenue Plan With Protected Bike Lanes to CB 7

To keep making progress on traffic safety, redesigns as substantial as this protected bike lane planned for Fourth Avenue in Brooklyn will have to be implemented citywide. Image: NYC DOT

Earlier this year, DOT presented a conceptual design to reconstruct Brooklyn's Fourth Avenue including protected bike lanes. This week the agency begins showing the project to community boards, with a presentation tonight at Brooklyn CB 7.

The reconstruction of Fourth Avenue between 65th Street and Atlantic Avenue is an important opportunity to add safe bike infrastructure to a major street that sorely needs it. DOT safety projects in 2012 and 2013 successfully calmed traffic on Fourth Avenue and reduced traffic injuries, especially for pedestrians, but didn't include bikeways.

A permanent reconstruction can either create an extremely useful low-stress bike connection between the neighborhoods of western Brooklyn, or it could make such a connection nearly impossible for another generation.

After months of public meetings and outreach, DOT brings its Fourth Avenue plan to the Brooklyn Community Board 7 transportation committee tonight.

Check the full calendar for more info on these and other events.

    • Today: DOT presents its Fourth Avenue plan to the CB 7 transportation committee. 4201 4th Avenue (entrance on 43rd Street), Brooklyn, 11232. 7 p.m.
    • Thursday: The City Council transportation committee holds an oversight hearing on the L Train shutdown. City Hall. 10 a.m.
    • Also Thursday: TransitCenter hosts its second annual holiday TransitSlam -- "a ruthless competition where presenters compete for audience applause and prizes." 1 Whitehall Street, 17th Floor, New York, NY 10004. 6 p.m.

Watch the calendar for updates. Drop us a line if you have an event we should know about.

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