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Eyes on the Street: Green Lane Sighting on Second Avenue at 122nd Street
Streetfilms' Elizabeth Press was uptown today working on a piece about East Harlem's long-awaited protected bike lanes. She passes along this view of the almost-rideable green lane on Second Avenue. Waiting for paint to dry has never been so thrilling.
October 18, 2012
Bike Lanes Mean Business
The East Village and Lower East Side have seen new bike infrastructure flourish in the past few years, and now have some of the best city bicycling infrastructure in the country, including what will soon be the nation’s longest protected bike lanes on First and Second Avenues, several on-street bike corrals, and, coming next spring, bike-share stations blanketing the neighborhood.
October 12, 2012
After Rejecting DOT Plan, Bay Ridge Community Board Supports Bike Lanes
DOT's proposal for a bike lane on Bay Ridge Parkway, which would have preserved all travel lanes and parking, was scrapped after local politicians blasted the concept and Brooklyn Community Board 10 voted against it, 32-8, in May 2011. At the time, the future looked bleak for bike lanes in Bay Ridge.
September 28, 2012
Mayor’s Report Card: NYC Traffic Fatalities Up, NYPD Enforcement Down
The Mayor's Management Report, an annual summation of how well city agencies are doing their jobs, includes bad news for traffic safety and sustainable streets. In the last fiscal year, traffic fatalities were at their highest level since 2008, and NYPD moving violations summonses were at a 10-year low. Meanwhile, DOT missed its bike lane and bike rack goals for the year.
September 20, 2012
New Survey Asks: Where Should Western Queens Get Bike Lanes Next?
With the first phase of new bike lanes set to go before Community Board 2 this fall before being installed in the spring, DOT has a new survey asking western Queens cyclists where they'd like to see bike lanes come next.
September 18, 2012
NACTO Beats the Clock With Quick Update of Bike Guide
Once again, the National Association of City Transportation Officials has proven what an agile, modern coalition of transportation agencies is capable of. It was just a year and a half ago that NACTO released its first Urban Bikeway Design Guide and today, it's released the first update to that guide.
September 6, 2012
Detailed Times Poll Numbers Show Broad Bike Lane, Bike-Share Support
More complete numbers are available from the New York Times poll on bicycle lanes and bike-share, and despite what Times reporters might have you believe, they show that bicycling is very much in New York City's mainstream. (In an earlier version of the online article, reporters Michael Grynbaum and Marjorie Connolly said that "cycling remains far from mainstream in New York." The phrase has been removed from the updated version.)
August 22, 2012
Times Poll Confirms: 66 Percent of New Yorkers Like Bike Lanes
Poll numbers released by the New York Times today show that 66 percent of adult New Yorkers think bike lanes are a good idea, joining a growing body of public opinion data that indicates strong local support for bike infrastructure.
August 21, 2012
The Guerrilla Bike Lane’s Gone — Back to Business as Usual on Bergen
Local resident Ian Dutton's ingenious method of keeping the Bergen Street bike lane clear of parked vehicles near the 78th Precinct has run its course, apparently. With Con-Ed's construction having wrapped up, the plastic posts that Dutton arranged to create some make-shift separation are no longer there. As of yesterday, it's back to an illegal parking zone for delivery trucks and NYPD squad cars.
August 17, 2012
Data-Free Times Story on Blind Pedestrians Slights All Who Walk NYC
As with any thriving metropolis, the New York streetscape is constantly changing. Whether related to sidewalk and street repair, utility maintenance or building construction, obstacles emerge and disappear around the clock, often leaving changes in their wake, in every corner of the city.
July 30, 2012