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CPW Gets Protected Bike Lane (Yay!) And Loses 400 Parking Spaces (Yay!)
It’s a pretty sizable win in the ongoing war against cars.
June 12, 2019
DOT Criticized for One-Way Central Park West Protected Bike Lane Plan
On bike Twitter? Insert frown-face emoji here.
June 9, 2019
Safe Streets Advocates to Mayor: We’re Just Waiting For Your Signature
Mayor de Blasio is suddenly backing a street redesign bill he has long opposed. Why? He has no choice.
May 30, 2019
Op-Ed: Paint The Bike Lane, Dammit, Before Someone Dies!
When is a parking-protected bike lane — a street design pioneered in this country by our own city Department of Transportation — no longer a parking-protected bike lane?
May 30, 2019
DOT Will Replace East Village ‘Mixing Zones’ With Semi-Protected Intersections
The First and Second Avenue protected bike lanes are about to get a whole lot safer, thanks to a new offset design.
May 22, 2019
Corey Johnson’s ‘Master Plan’: 50 Miles of Protected Bike Lanes Per Year — And A Lot More
The City Council Speaker is putting his legislative muscle where his mouth is.
May 21, 2019
No Controversy as Park Slope Panel Backs Flatbush Ave. Bike Lane
“It’s a really strong proposal. It replicates what was done on Prospect Park West almost a decade ago that has worked very well,” said one board member.
May 20, 2019
DOT to Bay Ridge: You Get Unsafe Bike Lanes Because We Don’t Want to Remove Parking
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?
May 10, 2019
Op-Ed: Rise of the Micro-Machines — How We Take Back the Streets
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.
May 10, 2019
DOT’S CPW PBL is OTW (LOL?)
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.
May 9, 2019
