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What They’re Saying About Protected Bike Lanes in East Harlem
Last Saturday, a group of volunteers with Transportation Alternatives set up a table on East 117th Street, gathering handwritten letters urging Mayor Bloomberg to extend protected bike lanes up to 125th Street, as originally planned. I've been meaning to write up a short dispatch about it all week. After a short period where we've seen some highly sensationalized bike
coverage on CBS2 (last night's installment being the exception), grand
theories about bike-related culture wars in the Daily News, and
equivocating from Deputy Mayor Stephen Goldsmith about the
administration's commitment to street safety improvements north of 34th
Street, lets get back to the basic reasons why the way we allocate street space matters.
August 19, 2010
Manhattan CB4 Wants the Full Safety Treatment for Eighth Ave Bike Lane
Last night Manhattan Community Board 4 voted unanimously in favor of an 11-block extension for the Eighth Avenue bike lane, which would bring the protected bikeway up to 34th Street. In an interesting flourish, the board asked that the extension include separate left-turn phases for bikes and cars.
July 22, 2010
Facebook Tally: PPW Bike Lane Support Outnumbers Opposition 4 to 1
A lot of neighborhood activists swear by the maxim that it's easier to organize against something than to drum up support for something new. But apparently this rule of thumb doesn't apply to the Prospect Park West bike lane.
July 15, 2010
Eyes on the Street: The Nascent First Avenue Bike Lane
It's not finished yet, but some segments of the First Avenue bike lane are quite rideable. I used about eight blocks of it this weekend.
July 12, 2010
As PPW Intrigue Mounts, Brooklyn Paper Defends the Completed Street
Before I get to the "intrigue" part of this post (it's juicy), first let me say that if you haven't checked out the Prospect Park West re-design yet, you owe it to yourself to head on over and take a look. Last time I checked, some of the finishing touches have yet to appear, but it's already one of the most effective street transformations the city has undertaken.
July 1, 2010
Selling Bike-Ped Infrastructure: Vancouver Shows How It’s Done
Now for some positive cycling news. Vancouver, British Columbia, in response to an infrastructure-driven jump in ridership, is installing a new separated two-way bike corridor on downtown's Dunsmuir Street. The project itself, part of an eventual network of protected lanes, seems impressive enough. But as this video shows, the would-be "greenest city in the world" absolutely nails the presentation.
June 23, 2010
East Harlem to Bloomberg: Protected Bike Lanes Must Extend Uptown
East Harlem residents are outraged by the city's backtracking on plans to bring protected bike lanes to their neighborhood.
June 10, 2010
Eighth Avenue Protected Bike Lane Slated for 11-Block Extension
A reader sent along this item spied on the DOT events calendar for next week. On Wednesday the 16th, at Manhattan Community Board 4...
June 7, 2010
East Side Re-Design Moves Ahead, But Full Bike Corridor Is on Hold
The re-design of First and Second Avenues has been a complex project to judge since the initial plans were unveiled earlier this year. From the beginning, it's been the most ambitious re-envisioning of a major corridor we've seen in New York City to date: 250 blocks of faster bus service and safer traveling for cyclists and pedestrians. But it has not met the high expectations of New Yorkers who held out hope for a truly high-performance busway and a continuous, protected bicycle corridor.
June 7, 2010