East 106th Street Road Diet and Bike Lanes Head to Manhattan CB 11
Running between Fifth Avenue and FDR Drive, 106th Street in East Harlem should provide a key bike connection between Central Park and Randall's Island. NYC DOT is proposing a road diet and painted bike lanes [PDF] to improve safety on the street, and Community Board 11's transportation committee could vote on the plan soon.
April 16, 2014
Icy and Dicy: Bridge Bike Commuters Report Hazards After Late Snowfall
It wasn't enough snow for a sneckdown, but last night's storm did mess with more than a few commutes this morning. Bike commuters discovered slippery conditions riding across the East River after winter threw one more dusting of snow at New York City.
April 16, 2014
Plaza Upgrades Planned Beneath Train Viaduct on Queens Blvd in Sunnyside
The parking-flanked space in the middle of Queens Boulevard in Sunnyside, beneath the vaulted elevated train viaduct at 40th and 46th Streets, today looks more forgotten than fun. The Sunnyside Shines BID is hoping to change that, and their plan to upgrade the pedestrian space was recently accepted by NYC DOT's pedestrian plaza program.
April 15, 2014
When Traffic Deaths Don’t Make the News: Jelani Irving, 22
While NYC traffic deaths are down in the first few months of 2014, they are still so frequent that not every fatality gets reported in the news. This is often the case when a victim dies from injuries in the hospital days after a crash. That's what happened earlier this year to 22-year-old Jelani Irving.
April 15, 2014
Montreal Judge Awards Bixi Bike-Share Assets to Montreal Furniture Mogul
The path to a more reliable and efficient Citi Bike got a bit more complicated this afternoon.
April 11, 2014
Trottenberg: “So Many Locations” Where Albany Prohibits NYC Speed Cams
Since being turned on in mid-January, New York City's limited speed camera program -- five cameras near schools, turned on only during weekday school hours -- have caught 14,500 drivers hitting at least 40 mph as of Tuesday, according to DOT. After 15 more cameras come online later this spring, the city will have reached its state-imposed cap on cameras. To bring speeding under control on most of the city's 6,000 miles of streets, though, it's up to Albany to let NYC run a much more substantial automated enforcement program.
April 10, 2014