Recent Streetsblog NYC posts about Bicycle Infrastructure

Are “Directional Miles of Bike Lanes” a Good Metric?

By Glenn McAnanama | May 3, 2007 | 32 Comments

Monday night I attended Manhattan Community Board 8’s pedestrian and cycling safety forum. There was an All-Star cast of panelists. Former DOT Commissioner Sam Schwartz, Manhattan DOT Commissioner Margaret Forgione and Director of Street Management and Safety Ryan Russo, Matthew Bauer of the Madison Ave BID, Traffic Enforcement Agents as well as other transportation experts. There were the usual complaints […]

40,000+ U.S. Buses Are Equipped With Bike Racks. None in NYC.

By Jason Varone | Feb 9, 2007 | 13 Comments

Via the National Center for Bicycling & Walking’s Centerlines Newsletter, the National Center for Transit Research reports: "Over 40,000 buses at more than 300 transit agencies in the U.S. are equipped with bike racks, and an estimated 670,000 bikes-on-transit trips are provided each month… Photo: brandonzwa/Flickr

A CRISPier Way to Build NYC’s 200+ Miles of New Bike Lanes?

By Aaron Naparstek | Nov 21, 2006 | 17 Comments

See the world’s first music video about shared-lane bike markings by Streetfilms Clarence Eckerson. At times over the last two and a half years I have done quite a bit of organizing and advocacy work to help get new bicycle lanes and shared-lane markings installed on Fifth Avenue in Brooklyn, my neighborhood’s main bike route. Though […]

London’s Cycling Design Standards: A Model for NYC?

By Aaron Naparstek | Nov 13, 2006 | 11 Comments

As New York City begins fulfilling its commitment to build 200 miles of new bicycle lanes over the next three years, the question will increasingly arise: What kind of bike lane should go where? Currently, DOT seems not to have any set of guidelines to answer that question. So, take a look at how the City of London does it. Transportation […]

Birth of a Class III Bike Route

By Aaron Naparstek | Nov 13, 2006 | 15 Comments

Department of Transportation contractors put down the long-awaited Class III "Shared Lane" bicycle stencils on Brooklyn’s Fifth Avenue this weekend. As I understand them, the markings are meant to do two things: Inform cyclists that Fifth Avenue is a preferred bike route. The more people who bike on Fifth Avenue, the safer Fifth Avenue will be for biking. […]

Another Model: Berkeley’s Bicycle Boulevard Network

By Aaron Naparstek | Sep 27, 2006 | 12 Comments

Yesterday I showed some photos of the "Share the Road" Bike Route signs that were recently installed on Fifth Avenue in Brooklyn and that sparked an interesting discussion on different possible ways to design and build on-street bike paths. This summer I was in Berkeley, California for a friend’s wedding. NYCSR filmmaker Clarence Eckerson was […]

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