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De Blasio Advances 111th Street Safety Plan: “The Right Thing to Do”
Mayor de Blasio gave the go-ahead to DOT's plan for a road diet, wider pedestrian medians, and a two-way protected bike lanes on 111th Street in Corona. The mayor made the announcement last night at a neighborhood town hall in response to a question from Vero Ramirez of Mujeres en Movimiento.
March 30, 2017
Manhattan CB 5 Committee Endorses 5th Avenue Protected Bike Lane
The Fifth Avenue protected bike lane got a thumbs up from the Manhattan Community Board 5 transportation committee last night. The committee voted in favor of the project last night, according to Transportation Alternatives Manhattan Organizer Chelsea Yamada.
March 28, 2017
Here’s the DOT Plan to Make the Bronx Side of the Madison Ave Bridge Less Terrifying
A stretch of 138th Street linking the Bronx to Manhattan is in line for walking and biking improvements from DOT.
March 23, 2017
Time for de Blasio to Make 111th Street Safer Without Waiting for James Lisa and Queens CB 4
City Hall can move ahead with the redesign without a community board vote in favor. It's simply cruel to keep in place dangerous crossings with high-speed traffic when a better design is ready to go and so many people have campaigned for safer conditions for so long.
March 22, 2017
Behold the Worst-Plowed Bike Lane in New York
It's been three days since Stella dropped its wintry precipitation on the city, but the protected bike lane on Grand Street in Manhattan remains unusable beneath three-foot mounds of snow.
March 17, 2017
DOT Is Getting Serious About Protected Bike Lanes for 4th Avenue
DOT will present a redesign for Brooklyn's 4th Avenue with protected bike lanes from 65th Street to Dean Street. It's an important shift from earlier plans that called for casting the current street design in concrete without adding bike infrastructure.
March 16, 2017
DOT Has a Fix for the Crummy Bike Connection Between Lower Manhattan and the Brooklyn Bridge
The big change in DOT's plan is a two-way section of bike lane protected by a concrete barrier on Park Row, plus a short contraflow lane on Spruce Street. It's not a lot of bike lane mileage, but it's a key link in the network that will be dramatically improved.
March 15, 2017
DOT Plans Better Bike Connections for Brooklyn Side of Williamsburg Bridge
At Brooklyn Community Board 1, DOT will present a plan to improve bicycle connections on the Brooklyn side of the Williamsburg Bridge, including protected bike lanes on the blocks approaching the bridge's bike path.
March 13, 2017
Trottenberg: Safer 111th Street “Tremendously Important” But Let’s See How CB 4 Votes
Days after a member of Queens Community Board 4 said a protected bike lane on 111th Street won't be necessary because undocumented immigrants will be deported, Transportation Commissioner Polly Trottenberg called the project "tremendously important" but stopped short of saying the city will definitely proceed with it.
March 3, 2017
15 Blocks of Fifth Avenue Will Get a Protected Bike Lane This Spring
Soon cyclists won't have to weave between double-parked cars and speeding traffic on the heavily-traveled stretch of Fifth Avenue south of 23rd Street. Last night DOT presented a plan to flip the biking and parking lanes between 23rd Street and 8th Street to Manhattan Community Board 2.
March 3, 2017
