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Bay Ridge Workshop Shows Why DOT Can’t Seem To Get Anything Done
Instead of engineering for safety, the department bends over backward to placate local drivers.
January 21, 2020
Streetsies 2019: The NIMBYs Who Should Move to the Suburbs Already
A rogues gallery of dunderheads tried to impede the movement to make our streets safe. Here are the lowlights.
December 31, 2019
Entitled Cops’ Car-Culture ‘Lifestyle’ on Display in Brooklyn
A note from the 68th Precinct excuses illegal parking because "public transportation [is] not a feasible option for their lifestyle."
July 19, 2019
City Will Defy Community Board and Paint Bay Ridge Bike Network
Two days after a Bay Ridge community board shot down a city plan for a starter kit of painted bike lanes — and one day after the neighborhood's elected officials demanded action — the Department of Transportation said it would ignore the board's vote and initiate its plan anyway.
June 20, 2019
Bay Ridge Pols to City: Don’t Listen to Our Community Board! Give Us Bike Lanes Now!
"We do not agree with their rejection of the proposals," said Council Member Justin Brannan, Assembly Member Mathylde Frontus and State Senator Andrew Gounardes.
June 18, 2019
BIKELASH! Bay Ridge CB Rejects DOT Cycle Network — Will City Push Back or Cave?
The DOT had offered Bay Ridge only a "starter pack" of unsafe painted bike lanes on a few roadways, but a group of 18 vocal Bay Ridge residents persuaded the CB10 traffic and transportation committee to demand that the city do even less.
June 10, 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
Bay Ridge Community Board Shows How It’s Done
CB10 offers support for DOT plan for a protected bike lane, but also offers some advice on how to make it better.
April 16, 2019
Safety First! DOT Revisiting Fourth Avenue Road Diet for Bay Ridge
Transportation officials say they will dust off an old plan to slow down speedsters in Bay Ridge — a life-saving proposal that the local community board killed in 2013.
April 2, 2019
Bay Ridge May Finally Get a Protected Bike Lane
Finally, Bay Ridge would enter the 21st century, thanks to a city plan to put a protected bike lane on Seventh Avenue.
March 27, 2019