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State to City: The Time Has Come to Install the Addabbo Bridge Protected Bike Lane
The state Department Transportation has finished studying a bike lane on the Addabbo Bridge and now it's up to the city Department of Transportation to build it. The ball is officially in Ydanis Rodriguez.
April 14, 2023
Thursday’s Headlines: Unseasonably Warm Weather Edition
Today's weather is freakishly hot. Plus other news.
April 13, 2023
RED TAPE: DOT Still Hasn’t Started Cable Study It Cited To Delay Brooklyn Bridge Bike Lane
The DOT admitted this week that the all-important, must-have, can't-do-anything-without-it cable study — mentioned in 2016, announced in 2017, supposed to start in 2019, and again in 2020 — never actually started.
April 13, 2023
Eyes on the Street: City Debuts ‘Double-Lane’ Protected Bike Lane on Four Blocks of Ninth Avenue
City DOT crews laid down four blocks of "double-lane" protected bike lane on Ninth Avenue in Manhattan this week — debuting a "passing lane" design officials plan to rollout later this year at locations across the city.
April 7, 2023
Cops in NYC Ticket Only 2% of Blocked Bike Lanes: Analysis
Don’t bother complaining to city about that car parked in the bike lane — the NYPD will probably toss your complaint into the bureaucratic waste-bin.
April 6, 2023
OPINION: How An Upper West Side Community Meeting Changed My Mind About Bike Lanes
A funny thing happened to me when I went to speak out against proposed crosstown bike lanes at my Upper West Side community board — I changed my mind.
April 4, 2023
New Law Would Honor Legacy of Slain Cyclist Sarah Langenkamp By Helping Cities Fill Bike Network Gaps
A new bill would encourage U.S. communities to use their federal safety dollars to fill the holes in city bike networks, and honor the legacy of an American hero who lost her life in one.
April 2, 2023
Why Won’t Carl Heastie Back Expanded Camera Enforcement to Take On Bus Stop Blockers?
A bill to expand use of bus-mounted and on-street enforcement cameras — and allow the tech in bike lanes — has run up against opposition from the state Assembly.
March 24, 2023
Adams Administration Teases ‘Exploration’ of Wider Bike Lanes to Ease E-Bike Revolution
The crush for space in New York City's bike lanes has intensified in recent years with the growing popularity of e-bikes, but relief may finally be on the way.
March 23, 2023
Activists Want a Protected Bike Lane on an Unsafe Stretch of Bedford Avenue
The Department of Transportation must add a protected bike lane on the dangerous stretch of Bedford Avenue between Flushing and Flatbush avenues, a major north-south spine that spans multiple neighborhoods in Brooklyn, a group of advocates led by a Black-run bike club is demanding.
March 22, 2023
