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Broadway Bike Lane Connecting City Hall and Bowling Green Could Be Coming Soon
If taking out a main source of traffic for cars in the Financial District works like it did with the so-called "Miracle on 14th Street," then leaders of the neighborhood civic group are all for it.
October 25, 2019
Op-Ed: Let’s Build Bus and Bike Infrastructure Together
It is disappointing that, as the boroughs finally modernize their bus services with bus lanes, stop-consolidation and more, cycling again seems left out of the picture.
October 23, 2019
NYPD Secretly Alters Victim-Blaming Narrative of Death of E-Bike Rider and Charges Trucker
"There is no excuse for this practice," said Marco Conner of Transportation Alternatives.
October 18, 2019
Data: No Side Street Trafficopalyse Near 14th Street Busway
"In most instances, a radical change causes havoc until a new ‘normal’ is established, but in this case it did not," a traffic analyst wrote.
October 16, 2019
Schools Boss: ‘I Haven’t Talked to Mayor About Keeping Cars Away from Kids’
"We talk curriculum and instruction," Chancellor Richard Carranza told Streetsblog.
October 16, 2019
Corey Johnson for Mayor: Will He ‘Break’ or Merely ‘Bend’ the Car Culture?
If politicians truly "campaign in poetry, but govern in prose," the Council speaker has shifted from iambic pentameter a bit early.
October 14, 2019
OUTRAGE! Queens Pol Suggests Banning Bikes From Some Streets
"I said there are some streets where perhaps, if we are expanding bikes in some streets, we might want to say on a very heavily industrial block, we're not gonna have bike riders," the legislator said, before following up with: "We're not banning bikes."
October 11, 2019
UPDATE: City to Reduce Speed Limit on West Side Highway
The speed limit for drivers on the dangerous West Side Highway will be reduced from 35 to 30 miles per hour.
October 10, 2019
EYES ON THE STREET: City Finally Unveils Brooklyn’s First ‘Shared Street’
Chicanes! Slow driving! People parking in loading zones! But In the languid, yearning words of Julian Casablancas: "Is this it?"
September 30, 2019
Monday’s Headlines: Five Boroughs, Five Slices Edition
The Streetsblog family team did not win the five borough pizza challenge — and you can blame our editor and his cheap non-Kevlar tires! Plus all the other news.
September 30, 2019
