Recent Streetsblog NYC posts about Protected Bike Lanes

On Thursday night, DOT officials unveiled their plan to allow car-storers to continue to use the public right of way to block safety improvements. Board member Steve Harrison, who doesn't want to remove parking, is on the far right. Photo: Dave Colon

DOT to Bay Ridge: You Get Unsafe Bike Lanes Because We Don’t Want to Remove Parking

By Dave Colon | May 10, 2019 | 18 Comments

The DOT offers "murderstrips" instead of protected bike lanes — even though Bay Ridge residents are increasingly open to real safety improvements. How is this Vision Zero?

Op-Ed: Rise of the Micro-Machines — How We Take Back the Streets

By Jessie Singer/Transportation Alternatives | May 10, 2019 | 16 Comments

In a sneak-peak at the new issue of Reclaim, the in-house magazine of Transportation Alternatives, writer Jessie Singer brings us up to speed on e-bikes, e-scooters and the mayor's poorly reasoned crackdown.

Madison Lyden's ghost bike still stands on the spot where the Australian tourist was killed on Aug. 10, 2018. Finally, the city seems to be moving ahead with a protected bike lane. Photo: David Meyer

DOT’S CPW PBL is OTW (LOL?)

By Gersh Kuntzman | May 9, 2019 | 19 Comments

It only took an internationally covered cyclist death — and months of delay — but the city is finally ready to present a protected bike lane for Central Park West, Streetsblog has learned.

Activists to DOT: ‘This Smashed Tomato Could Be My Head!’

By Gersh Kuntzman | Apr 26, 2019 | 22 Comments

Activists around the country are laying red Solo cups along the edges of unprotected bike lanes, but here in New York, at least one is making his anger about dangerous streets far more graphic.

A truck delivering to The Sandwich Shop blocking the eastbound bike lane on Tuesday morning. Photo: David Meyer

De Blasio Announces Grand Street Bike Lanes Will Stay, Ending L-Train Uncertainty

By David Meyer | Apr 24, 2019 | 15 Comments

The future of the bike lanes had been uncertain since the day Governor Cuomo canceled the L-train shutdown. But Mayor de Blasio is suddenly on a roll.

That was then. Photo: Clarence Eckerson Jr.

Streetfilms Wayback Machine: When Union Square Sucked (Before DOT Fixed It!)

By Clarence Eckerson Jr. | Apr 17, 2019 | 5 Comments

Let's go to the Streetfilms archive to see some really great footage of just how terrible Manhattan's Union Square was before it was transformed.

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