Recent Streetsblog NYC posts about Bicycle Infrastructure

Eyes on the Street: Flex Posts Keep Drivers Out of 158th Street Bike Lane

By Brad Aaron | Oct 30, 2015 | 25 Comments

Reader Alec Melman sent these before-and-after pics of the bikeway on 158th Street in Manhattan, which is now protected with flex posts. The lane is part of a package of Upper Manhattan bike improvements intended to make biking and walking safer between the Hudson River Greenway and the High Bridge. As you can see in the photo below, […]

Eyes on the Street: Randall’s Island Connector to Open in “Coming Weeks”

By Stephen Miller | Sep 30, 2015 | 32 Comments

The Randall’s Island Connector, a greenway link between the South Bronx and Randall’s Island, is almost complete. Bronxites are anticipating a ribbon-cutting any day now from the city’s Economic Development Corporation, which is building the project. The new path crosses the Bronx Kill, a narrow waterway separating Randall’s Island from the Bronx. Without it, the only way to bike or walk […]

Massachusetts’ Bikeway Design Guide Will Be Nation’s Most Advanced Yet

By Michael Andersen | Sep 22, 2015 | No Comments

Michael Andersen blogs for The Green Lane Project, a PeopleForBikes program that helps U.S. cities build better bike lanes to create low-stress streets. Bikeway design in this country keeps rocketing forward. The design guide that Massachusetts is planning to unveil in November shows it. The new guide, ordered up by MassDOT and prepared by Toole […]

DOT to Replace Seaman Ave. Bike Lanes With Wider Bike Lane and Sharrows

By Brad Aaron | Sep 16, 2015 | 20 Comments

Last week DOT told Community Board 12 that bike lanes on Seaman Avenue in Inwood, which were wiped out when most of the street was resurfaced in 2014, won’t be coming back on both sides of the street because the old 4-foot wide lanes didn’t comply with agency guidelines. DOT told Streetsblog yesterday that a 5-foot lane will be striped on northbound […]

Lentol: Pulaski Bridge Bikeway Construction to Begin September 14

By Stephen Miller | Sep 3, 2015 | 20 Comments

Construction of the Pulaski Bridge protected bike lane is now set to begin in a matter of days, according to Assembly Member Joe Lentol, and could wrap before the end of the year. DOT had announced last month that drainage design issues would delay the start of construction until next March, but that no longer seems […]

Construction Begins on New 151st Street Bridge to Hudson River Greenway

By Stephen Miller | Aug 28, 2015 | 148 Comments

The state broke ground this month on a new pedestrian and bicycle bridge linking West Harlem with the Hudson River Greenway. For cyclists, the bridge will provide stair-free access between the greenway and the intersection of 151st Street and Riverside Drive, spanning the Henry Hudson Parkway and the Amtrak line that runs along the Hudson. Right now […]

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