Recent Streetsblog NYC posts about Bicycle Infrastructure

Eyes on the Street: Protected Bike Lane Sighting on the Upper East Side

By Ben Fried | Apr 4, 2012 | 10 Comments

Reader Liz Patek sends these shots of the new road markings on First Avenue in the 60s. The protected bike lane that Manhattan Community Board 8 approved last summer is going in. Until now there was no bike infrastructure at all on First Avenue between 60th Street and 72nd Street. Filling that gap is DOT’s […]

New WHO Tool Calculates the Health Savings of Bike/Ped Infrastructure

By Angie Schmitt | Mar 23, 2012 | No Comments

Sidewalks, bike lanes, traffic calming projects — they save lives. Not just by protecting cyclists and pedestrians (not to mention motorists), but by encouraging physical activity that leads to a healthy life. Of course, it can be hard to convince politicians to see things in those terms when it’s time to pony up for walking […]

Bikes Belong to Help Six Cities Build Protected Bikeways

By Angie Schmitt | Feb 8, 2012 | No Comments

Six cities will adopt innovate street designs for safer cycling over the next two years as part of a new program from Bikes Belong. The Green Lane Project will provide financial and technical assistance for cities to develop physically protected cycling infrastructure. The six to-be-determined cities will then serve as models for other American cities […]

With 8 Percent Bump in 2011, NYC Bike Count Has Doubled Since 2007

By Ben Fried | Dec 8, 2011 | 10 Comments

The New York City Department of Transportation recorded an eight percent increase in the number of people biking into Manhattan below 50th street this year. The bike count has now doubled since 2007, when the city’s first on-street protected bike lane was installed on Ninth Avenue. This year’s increase is less than the double-digit increases […]

Has DOT Decided Against Designing a Safer Delancey Street? [Updated]

By Noah Kazis | Sep 6, 2011 | 32 Comments

Three concrete walls will soon surround the Manhattan entrance to the Williamsburg Bridge, as reported in Gothamist and the Villager. The construction, already underway and due to be completed at the beginning of next year, is part of a Department of Transportation effort to force cyclists coming down the ramp from the bridge to slow […]

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Breathtaking Bike Infrastructure: Minneapolis’s Martin Olav Sabo Bridge

By Clarence Eckerson Jr. | Aug 11, 2011 | No Comments

In 2007, in order to route cyclists away from a challenging 7-lane crossing on busy Hiawatha Avenue, Minneapolis built the Martin Olav Sabo Bridge. The first cable-stayed bridge of any kind in the state, it’s breathtaking, even to the people who have been riding it for years. It provides a safe, continuous crossing and offers up […]

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