Recent Streetsblog NYC posts about Infrastructure

A rendering imagines what the F train York Street Station would look like with pulsating lights. Image: Delson or Sherman

Op-Ed: Fix DUMBO’s Dangerous Subway Station

By Jeffrey Sherman | Dec 3, 2019 | No Comments

The fire-trap F train station at York Street desperately needs a second entrance, but the MTA has no plans to fix it.

Here's an unprotected scooter rider on a dangerous street. Is this what the NY Times wants?

Op-Ed: New York Needs More Micro-Mobility Lanes Now

By Melinda Hanson | Oct 14, 2019 | No Comments

Cities are setting ambitious goals to reduce the impact of climate change. But most are hoping electric cars save the day. They won't. They're still cars.

A cyclist going downhill on the Hudson Greenway bike bypass confronts a driver on a Parks Department-only path at 79th Street. The offending dumpster, which apparently had already been moved out of the path, is on the right. Photo: Ken Coughlin

Eyes on the Street: Fresh Hazards for Riverside Park Bike Bypass

By Eve Kessler and Vivian Lipson | Jul 15, 2019 | 22 Comments

The Parks Department is protecting pedestrians by sending cyclists up and down a steep, confusing path — and watch out for that Dumpster!

A DOT rendering from the second phase of the Atlantic Avenue rebuild shows bike lanes along the median. Image: DOT

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Op-Ed: The Atlantic Avenue Rebuild Is Taking Too Long

By David Herman | Jun 24, 2019 | 11 Comments

The next chapter of the Department of Transportation’s long-awaited rebuild of Atlantic Avenue — one of the city’s deadliest corridors — won’t likely start until 2021.

Cars frequently reclaim protected bike lanes — as they did on the two-way stretch of Clinton Street on the Lower East Side — between the time the DOT removes pavement and when the agency restores painted markings. Photo: Jon Orcutt

Op-Ed: Paint The Bike Lane, Dammit, Before Someone Dies!

By Jon Orcutt | May 30, 2019 | 28 Comments

When is a parking-protected bike lane — a street design pioneered in this country by our own city Department of Transportation — no longer a parking-protected bike lane? When that same DOT removes all street markings for street resurfacing, leaving cyclists who have become attuned to the city’s best on-street bike routes to fend for […]

New York's economy would be paralyzed if the 100-plus-year-old Gateway Tunnel were to collapse.

Feds Must Fix Hudson River Tunnel Before Catastrophic Failure Cripples New York

By Julianne Cuba | Feb 27, 2019 | 23 Comments

The Regional Plan Association estimates that a failure of the tunnel would cost billions to the New York region and send home values plummeting.

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