Recent Streetsblog NYC posts about Protected Bike Lanes

A symbol of New York City's bike lane network. File photo: Vivian Lipson

Bike NY to DOT: The City’s Cycling Program is No Longer a World Leader, So Fix It

By Gersh Kuntzman | Jan 12, 2022 | No Comments

The first order of business is recognizing the city has a problem, the Jan. 7 letter from Bike New York to DOT Commissioner Ydanis Rodriguez stated.

The DOT didn’t think that super-wide 46th Avenue was appropriate for a protected bike lane, but Community Board 10 did. Photo: Google

N’East Queens to DOT: Give Us the Safest Bike Lanes, Not Just Paint

By Dave Colon | Jan 4, 2022 | No Comments

They want the best or nothing.

A biker riding in the new Northern Boulevard protected bike lane on Wednesday. Photo: Julianne Cuba

DOT Study Shows that Bike Lanes Cut Risk of Cyclist Injury By One-Third (Yes, And…?)

By Julianne Cuba | Oct 29, 2021 | No Comments

So remind us again? How come every street doesn't have a bike lane?

In 2017 (left), Honeywell Street had flex-posts. By 2019, they were gone. Photos: Google

E-Cyclist Rider Killed on Roadway that Once Had a Protected Bike Lane … Until DOT Downgraded It

By Gersh Kuntzman | Oct 11, 2021 | No Comments

A teenager in a 4,000-pound Chevy pickup truck driving the wrong way on a dangerous Queens overpass struck and killed an e-bike rider who was in a bike lane that the city had once built as a "protected" bike lane, but then downgraded to mere paint after drivers destroyed all the flex-posts that once secured the lane.

Just move the damn barricade. File photo: Gersh Kuntzman

New Bike Lanes Coming to Howard Beach — But Not on the Damn Addabbo Bridge

By Dave Colon | Sep 15, 2021 | No Comments

How come the Brooklyn Bridge can get thousands of pounds of new jersey barriers, but the existing barriers on the Addabbo Bridge can't simply be moved?

Will New Brooklyn Bridge Bike Path Also Reform a Notorious Placard Zone?

By Gersh Kuntzman | Aug 27, 2021 | No Comments

The protected bike lane on the roadbed of the Brooklyn Bridge is about to open, but the real news is what the Department of Transportation is doing just north of the bridge's Manhattan end — where a redesign of Foley Square has the potential to clean up one of the most notorious placard abuse zones in the city.

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