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Queens CB 2’s “Safety Workshop” for 43rd and Skillman Was a Pointless Gripefest. Mission Accomplished.
The board has sat on DOT's plan for protected bike lanes on Skillman and 43rd avenues since November.
May 22, 2018
Death By Delay: Queens CB 2 Keeps Stalling on Skillman/43rd Protected Bike Lane
Community Board Chair Denise Keehan-Smith doesn't want to discuss protected bike lanes at an upcoming "safety workshop" about Skillman Avenue and 43rd Avenue.
May 18, 2018
CB 12 Expected to Call on DOT to Erase Dyckman Bike Lanes, Which CB 12 Endorsed
Thank Gale Brewer and Adriano Espaillat.
May 17, 2018
DOT: Protected Bike Lanes Coming to Grand Concourse Below 161st Street, Eventually
The agency says a future capital project will add protected bike lanes on the Concourse between 138th Street and 161, but there is no funding or timetable attached yet.
May 16, 2018
DOT Doesn’t Plan to Rip Out the Dyckman Street Protected Bike Lanes — For Now
Project supporters outnumbered critics at last night's CB 12 hearing, but Gale Brewer, Adriano Espaillat, and Marisol Alcantara sent surrogates to attack Dyckman's new design and call for its removal.
May 9, 2018
Is DOT Ready to Address Dyckman Street’s Parking Management Problem?
It should go without saying that smarter parking meter rates can reduce traffic dysfunction on Dyckman. Instead, DOT might narrow the street's new bike lanes to carve out more space for people to park illegally.
May 2, 2018
Will the Dyckman Street Redesign Survive the CB 12 Gauntlet?
Community Board 12 has scheduled a series of meetings on Dyckman “traffic calming issues.” According to the board, DOT will participate.
April 25, 2018
With Central Park Car-Free, There’s One Less Excuse Not to Extend the 6th Ave Protected Bike Lane
Car traffic will shift away from Sixth Avenue, opening up room to extend the protected bike lane that currently ends at 33rd Street.
April 24, 2018
Bikelash Rehash With Gale Brewer and Adriano Espaillat
Justifying their campaign to rip out the Dyckman Street bike lanes, Brewer and Espaillat recycle the same litany of objections that surface whenever a bikeway debuts in New York City.
April 19, 2018
Ydanis Rodriguez Caves to Bike Haters on Dyckman Street
Rodriguez tweeted that he now wants a two-way bikeway on Dyckman's north side to replace parking-protected lanes on both sides of the street. But shifting the bikeway won't solve the problems on Dyckman, which don't stem from the bike lane, but from poor curb management and parking policy.
April 17, 2018