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Bike Lanes on Track for Staten Island’s Clove Road Early This Summer
Clove Road is set to get bike lanes this summer, including a half-mile road diet, nearly two years after Staten Island Community Board 1 asked DOT for the street safety fixes.
April 23, 2015
Gale Brewer Reappoints Safe Streets Foes to Manhattan Community Boards
Manhattan Borough President Gale Brewer has reappointed a slate of community board members with a long history of opposing safer streets and better transit.
April 21, 2015
Queens BP Melinda Katz Prioritizes Parking Over Affordable Housing
Few things set off alarm bells for car-owning New Yorkers more than the thought of having less parking. So when the Department of City Planning proposed a minor reduction in parking requirements, the community board chairs of Queens got a case of road rage, with Borough President Melinda Katz at the wheel.
April 17, 2015
Two Community Boards Sign Off on Greenpoint Avenue Bridge Bike Lanes
Four years ago, DOT shelved a plan that would have added bike lanes to the Greenpoint Avenue Bridge, also known as the J.J. Byrne Bridge, after a year of outcry from area businesses and residents. Now, a modified plan has cleared two community boards little more than a month after it was first proposed.
April 17, 2015
Harlem Bus Lane Foes: Good Streets for Bus Riders “Trampling Our Liberties”
Community board meetings in central Harlem have officially gone off the deep end.
April 15, 2015
Expecting DOT Street Safety Projects to Deliver More Than the Minimum
A DOT plan to add painted bike lanes and sharrows to Spring Street [PDF] doesn't go far enough to prioritize walking and biking, says Community Board 2 transportation vice-chair Maury Schott.
April 7, 2015
DOT Safety Plan for Corona’s 111th Street Faces Uphill Battle at Queens CB 4
A dangerous street that Corona residents have to cross to get to Flushing Meadows Corona Park is in line for a serious traffic-calming plan, complete with a two-way protected bike lane [PDF], but local community board members are balking at the proposal.
April 6, 2015
Bus Lanes Coming to 125th Street in West Harlem This Summer
Bus riders may not be stuck in crosstown traffic on 125th Street much longer. DOT plans to extend bus lanes from Lenox Avenue to Morningside Avenue this summer [PDF].
April 3, 2015
Queens Boulevard Safety Plan Has First Encounter With a Community Board
Skepticism from the Community Board 2 transportation committee toward DOT's proposed changes for Queens Boulevard wore off over the course of a meeting last night, as board members learned more about the project for 1.3 miles of safety improvements [PDF]. DOT will return to the committee again after tweaking the plan, which appears to be on track to receive CB 2's backing by June, in time to put changes on the ground this summer.
April 1, 2015
Bus Driver Hits Woman at Intersection Where CB 9 Opposes Safety Fixes
Yesterday, a bus driver hit a woman walking across W. 135th Street at Riverside Drive, an intersection in a crash-prone area where DOT has proposed a slate of safety improvements that are opposed by Manhattan Community Board 9.
March 27, 2015