Recent Streetsblog NYC posts about West Bronx

DOT Commissioner Polly Trottenberg and Borough President Ruben Diaz Jr. at the launch of a dockless bike-share pilot in the Bronx this morning. Photo: David Meyer

Bronx Bike-Share Pilot Gives NYC First Glimpse of Dockless Citi Bikes and JUMP Pedal-Assist Bicycles

By David Meyer | Jul 30, 2018 | 9 Comments

JUMP launched a small pilot in the area around Fordham University this morning, with Citi Bike's fleet set to arrive "mid-August."

Left to right: TransAlt Executive Director Paul Steely White, Families for Safe Streets' Hank Miller, and Council Member Ritchie Torres with the family of Carlos Vasquez. Photo: David Meyer

Family of Carlos Vasquez, Killed by Hit-and-Run Driver, Calls on de Blasio to Bring Safe Streets to the Bronx

By David Meyer | May 2, 2018 | 2 Comments

"Here in the Bronx we deserve the same standard of safety that's available in Queens, and in Park Slope, and in the wealthiest parts of our city," said Council Member Ritchie Torres. "Our right to life is no less than anyone else's."

The bike lanes on the Grand Concourse are now aligned next to the medians, not the parking lane. Photo: Erwin Figueroa

Eyes on the Street: The Grand Concourse Bike Lanes Get an Upgrade

By David Meyer | Aug 29, 2017 | 20 Comments

DOT has realigned the bike lanes on a section of the Grand Concourse and painted them green. It's not as good as the physical protection local advocates are after -- the city plans to redesign the Concourse with protected bike lanes later -- but it's an upgrade on one of the Bronx's major north-south routes.

Bronxites to DOT: Grand Concourse Is Awful for Walking and Biking

By David Meyer | Jan 20, 2017 | 12 Comments

When it was built at the turn of the 20th Century, the Grand Concourse was envisioned as the Bronx’s Champs Elysées. But generations of car-oriented development have reduced the Concourse to a speedway for motor vehicle traffic, despite low rates of car ownership in the neighborhoods that surround it.

Eyes on the Street: Bike Lane Stripes on Tremont Avenue

By David Meyer | May 4, 2016 | 18 Comments

DOT has striped the first pieces of the Bronx’s newest bike route on Tremont Avenue. The city is putting down bike lanes and sharrows on the 4.1-mile stretch of Tremont Avenue between Cedar Avenue and Boston Road, following a 2014 request from Council Member Ritchie Torres for a cross-town route on Tremont. Reader Jonathan Rabinowitz snapped the photo above of freshly-painted […]

DOT: Grand Concourse Project to “Replace and Upgrade Existing Bike Lanes”

By David Meyer | Feb 24, 2016 | 21 Comments

With Bronx Borough President Ruben Diaz calling for better bike infrastructure on the Grand Concourse, there’s some serious political momentum to make this major north-south thoroughfare a safer street. How far will DOT take it? The Grand Concourse is one of DOT’s Vision Zero “Great Streets” projects slated for capital improvements in the next few years. Currently, it has buffered bike […]

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