Bike-Share Expansion in Harlem, Astoria, and Central Brooklyn Starts Next Week
Next Tuesday, September 12, Citi Bike operator Motivate will begin installing 140 new stations and 2,000 bikes in Astoria, Crown Heights, Prospect Heights, and Harlem up to 130th Street, marking the final phase of planned expansion for the four-year-old bike-share system.
September 5, 2017
De Blasio Inaugurates Faster Crosstown Bronx Bus Service on the Bx6
One section of the Bx6 goes beyond typical New York City bus lane designs, which run next to the curb or the parking lane. By Sheridan and Sherman avenues, buses now run in center-running lanes.
September 5, 2017
Menchaca Calls for Direct Red Hook-Manhattan Bus Service and Safety Overhaul of 3rd Avenue
Council Member Carlos Menchaca wants more direct bus service from Red Hook to Manhattan and a "full Vision Zero redesign" of Brooklyn's Third Avenue, which runs through Sunset Park underneath the Brooklyn-Queens Expressway.
August 31, 2017
Fox and Cumbo Stake Out Diverging Positions on Congestion Pricing
Council Member Laurie Cumbo -- whose district encompasses in Fort Greene, Prospect Heights, and parts of Crown Heights -- faces a spirited and well-funded primary challenge from Ede Fox, a former council staffer who also ran for the seat four years ago.
August 31, 2017
Eyes on the Street: The Grand Concourse Bike Lanes Get an Upgrade
DOT has realigned the bike lanes on a section of the Grand Concourse and painted them green. It's not as good as the physical protection local advocates are after -- the city plans to redesign the Concourse with protected bike lanes later -- but it's an upgrade on one of the Bronx's major north-south routes.
August 29, 2017
Heads Up: MTA Fining People for Biking on the Triboro Bridge Car-Free Path
The agency seems to want biking across its bridges to be as inconvenient and financially risky as possible.
August 28, 2017
The Bike Lane Outside City Hall Isn’t Full of Parked Cars Anymore
A frustrating gap in the Lower Manhattan bike network is about to get filled, as DOT crews wrap up installation of a curb-protected bike lane outside City Hall.
August 25, 2017
Eyes on the Street: A Safer Biking Connection to the Williamsburg Bridge
DOT crews have made significant progress this week on a project to improve bike access to the Williamsburg Bridge in Brooklyn. Striping and plastic bollards for a two-way bike lane on South 4th Street are now in place.
August 24, 2017
Tour the Safer 111th Street With the People Who Fought Three Years to Make It Happen
With DOT crews wrapping up work on the 111th Street project, local residents went for a celebratory ride last week. Streetfilms' Clarence Eckerson was there and put together this video tour of the redesigned street and retrospective of the three-year advocacy campaign to make this project happen.
August 23, 2017
45 Assembly Members Demand a Bus Turnaround Plan From Joe Lhota
In a letter to Lhota today, Assembly corporations and authorities chair Jeff Dinowitz and 44 of his colleagues demand a "comprehensive plan" to fix the bus system "within six months."
August 22, 2017
