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Construction of East Harlem Protected Bike Lanes Slated to Start This Month
Before cleaning his workspace yesterday and packing up for New Haven, Noah Kazis snagged one more piece of good news, which it is my pleasure to report: DOT will begin constructing a protected bike lane on Second Avenue in East Harlem at the end of August.
August 2, 2012
Eyes on the Street: Lines Forming for Ninth Ave Protected Bike Lane
Construction on Midtown protected bike lanes continues apace. Reader Hilda Cohen sends in the above shot from Ninth Avenue, where she says "contractors are out marking lines between 47th and 39th."
July 11, 2012
Eyes on the Street: Concrete Progress on Eighth Ave Protected Bike Lane
Doug Gordon of Brooklyn Spoke fame sends these shots of another milestone in the extension of the Eighth Avenue protected bike lane: The pedestrian islands are going in. These pools of pure unspoiled concrete were spied at the intersection of 35th Street.
July 6, 2012
Eyes on the Street: Bike-Ped Improvements on 6 1/2 and Eighth Avenues
Safer streets are taking shape in Midtown, with work underway to create new paths through the heart of the city for pedestrians and cyclists alike.
July 2, 2012
Eyes on the Street: New Manhattan Bikeways in Progress
Photo contributor extraordinaire Jacob-uptown has uploaded a new batch to the Streetsblog Flickr pool, taking us on a tour of the major new bikeways DOT is implementing in Manhattan.
June 7, 2012
West Side Study Offers Lots of Little Improvements, No Transformations
The Department of Transportation has completed a multi-year transportation study of the Upper West Side, and Wednesday night the agency walked local residents through the many proposed changes [PDF]. The suggestions for the area between 55th and 86th Streets, west of Central Park, include a number of valuable intersection-level improvements to pedestrian safety, but left some feeling that the recommendations don't go far enough.
April 27, 2012
The Case for a Two-Way Protected Bike Lane on Plaza Street
Cross-posted from Brooklyn Spoke.
April 12, 2012
Bikes Belong Selects Six Cities to Fast Track Protected Bike Lanes
The Bikes Belong Foundation has chosen six cities to fast track physically protected bikeway designs that make cycling safer and more accessible to a wide range of people.
April 4, 2012
Eyes on the Street: Protected Bike Lane Sighting on the Upper East Side
Reader Liz Patek sends these shots of the new road markings on First Avenue in the 60s. The protected bike lane that Manhattan Community Board 8 approved last summer is going in.
April 4, 2012
Two-Way Bike Lane Back on Table For Plaza Street, But Will It Be Protected?
Is the NBBL era finally behind us? First, Senator Chuck Schumer himself was spotted riding in the Prospect Park West bike lane. Now, the Department of Transportation is reviving a plan, shelved at the height of the NBBL-aided media circus about cycling, to build a two-way bike lane on Plaza Street.
April 3, 2012