CPW Gets Protected Bike Lane (Yay!) And Loses 400 Parking Spaces (Yay!)
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It’s a pretty sizable win in the ongoing war against cars.
Recent Streetsblog NYC posts about Upper West Side
DOT Criticized for One-Way Central Park West Protected Bike Lane Plan
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On bike Twitter? Insert frown-face emoji here.
Manhattan Board Rejects DOT Rotunda Plan
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The Department of Transportation must go back to the drawing board with its controversial $200-million redesign of the 79th Street rotunda because the current proposal remains unsafe for cyclists, a Manhattan community board voted on Tuesday night. Community Board 7 resolved Tuesday night to “disapprove” of DOT’s plan for the Robert Moses-built, 70-year-old structure that […]
Op-ed: DOT Rebuffs Community on Riverside Park Rotunda Traffic Safety
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Last October, the Department of Transportation presented to Community Board 7 a $150- to 200-million plan to renovate the Rotunda at West 79th Street in Riverside Park. The Rotunda is topped by a traffic circle that cyclists use to get to the Hudson River Greenway, the busiest bike route in the country. For years, cyclists […]
Upper West Side Panel Demands End to Free On-Street Parking
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As Manhattan CB 7's transportation committee sees it, the very presence free on-street parking on the Upper West Side only serves to exacerbate congestion. On Tuesday, the panel demanded an end to it entirely.
DOT’S CPW PBL is OTW (LOL?)
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It only took an internationally covered cyclist death — and months of delay — but the city is finally ready to present a protected bike lane for Central Park West, Streetsblog has learned.