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Eyes on the Street: A Better Bikeway Linking the High Bridge to Highbridge
Ten days ago, DOT broke ground on a nice set of new bike lanes linking Upper Manhattan to the reopened High Bridge. Meanwhile, bike access improvements on the Bronx side are already pretty far along.
June 22, 2015
Eyes on the Street: DOT Installs Missing Speed Hump After Driver Flips Car
After a car crash, some press attention, and pressure from the local council member, DOT finally coordinated with the School Construction Authority to install a long-awaited speed hump on Hull Avenue as part of the Norwood Slow Zone in the Bronx.
June 19, 2015
Eyes on the Street: Vernon Boulevard Gets Bike Lane Barriers
Biking in western Queens is getting a welcome upgrade.
June 16, 2015
South Bronx Greenway Takes Shape on Food Center Drive
A decade in the making, the South Bronx Greenway segment along Food Center Drive in Hunts Point is almost complete. The loop, which will provide a protected path along a busy truck route past some of the region's largest food and beverage distributors, is set to open this fall.
June 15, 2015
Eyes on the Street: Green Bike Lanes on the Greenpoint Avenue Bridge
Biking between Greenpoint and Woodside is getting less hairy. DOT crews have painted buffered bike lanes on the Greenpoint Avenue Bridge, a project that was first proposed five years ago.
June 15, 2015
DOT Replaces a Block of the Fifth Avenue Bike Lane With Sharrows
DOT's recent design tweaks to Eighth Street have come with an unwelcome change on Fifth Avenue. As the Fifth Avenue bike lane approaches Eighth Street, it now morphs into sharrows that overlap with a turning lane for motorists. The dedicated space for cycling is gone, and the new design is incompatible with the protected bike lane that advocates and the local community board have called for on Fifth Avenue.
June 11, 2015
Eyes on the Street: The Case of the Missing Bike Lanes
The streets have been repaved. Lane striping, crosswalks, and stop bars have been added back. But there's something missing from two streets in DOT's bike network: bike lanes.
June 10, 2015
Upper Manhattan’s First Protected Bike Lane Goes Green [Updated]
Update: The Manhattan Community Board 12 transportation committee will consider an agenda item tonight that would call on DOT to remove the Fort George Hill bike lane. Yes, really. The meeting will be held at the Isabella Geriatric Center, 515 Audobon Avenue, at 7 p.m.
June 1, 2015
Eyes on the Street: This Year’s First “Street Seats” Have Begun to Sprout
It's Street Seats season -- the time of year when curbside seating replaces parking to reclaim some space for people, at least for the summer.
May 29, 2015
Eyes on the Street: A Buffer for (Some of) the Sixth Avenue Bike Lane
Parts of the notoriously skinny Sixth Avenue bike lane are about to get slightly less cramped. DOT is narrowing the car lanes on the newly-repaved avenue to make room for buffers on the bike lane from Christopher Street to W. 14th Street.
May 8, 2015