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The New Gansevoort: Pedestrian Godsend, Nightclubber Nuisance
A DOT team received a mix of gratitude and derision at Tuesday's public forum about recent pedestrian improvements in the Meatpacking District, which attracted an audience of about 100 people to the Housing Works offices on West 13th Street. It was an interesting window onto the competing interests now vying to shape what has been, from the beginning, a genuinely community-based project seeking to put pedestrians on equal footing with vehicle traffic.
January 15, 2009
Manhattan CB2 Unanimously Approves Eighth Avenue Cycle Track
The cycle track will replace the current buffered bike lane on Eighth Avenue.
June 24, 2008
Eyes on the Street: Gansevoort Plaza Open for Business (Updated)
The view of Gansevoort Plaza looking west.
April 24, 2008
Let’s Chop Up Superblocks
Forest City's Atlantic Yards project would create two massive superblocks in Prospect Hts., Brooklyn
February 22, 2008
A Year After Eric Ng’s Death, Greenway Hazards Remain Unfixed
This piece was written by Transportation Alternatives:
January 4, 2008
This is the Pedestrian Refuge Area That CB8 Refused to Protect
This scene was photographed by Flickr photographer BicyclesOnly on Saturday. Read his note below. Hopefully someone will ask members of Manhattan Community Board 8's transportation committee if this sort of car crash meets their rigorous aesthetic standards. Last January, CB8 rejected a proposal to physically protect Park Avenue's pedestrian refuge areas because they didn't think bollards, barriers or planters could be made to look pretty enough. Streetsblog readers will also remember CB8's transportation committee as the group that tried to kill DOT's crosstown bike route plan for the Upper East Side last summer. It looks like CB8 is still trying to kill it. The 91st Street bike lane is on the agenda of their December 10 meeting:
December 3, 2007
In Amsterdam Cyclists Always Get the Green Light
The green wave of Odense, Denmark.
November 12, 2007
Truck Drivers Confusing New Cycle Track for Unloading Zone
With construction of the new Ninth Avenue separated bike path in Chelsea still underway it is way too early to draw any conclusions about the project. The new medians and planting beds haven't been built, the markings aren't done and DOT still needs to install new traffic signals. Once the Muni-Meters are turned on, every other block will be reserved for paid commercial parking -- deliveries only. Likewise, DOT says that it is working with the police department on ramping up enforcement but that hasn't started yet either.
October 9, 2007
1,200 Pack Town Hall for “How New Yorkers Ride Bikes”
Streetfilms' Clarence Eckerson was at Town Hall on Saturday night for the New Yorker Festival's "How New Yorkers Ride Bikes," hosted by former Talking Heads frontman David Byrne. Clarence wasn't allowed to film the event so he published a nice write-up on StreetFilms. Some excerpts:
October 8, 2007