Recent Streetsblog NYC posts about Bike Lanes

Radar Survey Says: New PPW Has Reversed the Curse of Speeding Traffic

By Ben Fried | Aug 3, 2010 | 29 Comments

Vehicle speeds recorded on Prospect Park West at the intersection of Garfield Place before and after implementation of the road diet + bike lane. Graphic: Park Slope Neighbors [PDF] The Prospect Park West bike lane has bestowed order and virtually eliminated the raceway conditions on a street where speeding used to be the norm. In […]

Eyes on the Street: Blast of Thermoplast on Flushing

By Ben Fried | Jul 23, 2010 | 3 Comments

John Del Signore at Gothamist got this shot of Flushing Avenue this morning. Looks like phase one of the Flushing bikeway is getting striped, creating a continuous link between North Brooklyn and the Manhattan Bridge. A refresher: The two-way, jersey barrier-separated path on Williamsburg Street West will extend to Washington Avenue on the north side […]

Manhattan CB4 Wants the Full Safety Treatment for Eighth Ave Bike Lane

By Ben Fried | Jul 22, 2010 | 17 Comments

Last night Manhattan Community Board 4 voted unanimously in favor of an 11-block extension for the Eighth Avenue bike lane, which would bring the protected bikeway up to 34th Street. In an interesting flourish, the board asked that the extension include separate left-turn phases for bikes and cars. Top: Left-turn zone on Second Avenue. (Photo: […]

EDC’s Queens Plaza Project Adds Better Bike-Ped Routes, Subtracts Parking

By Noah Kazis | Jul 20, 2010 | 7 Comments

The Queens Plaza North bike lane will run in a center median. Image: NYCEDC Protected bike paths are coming to Queens Plaza as part of a major redesign of the area by the city’s Economic Development Corporation. Construction work to transform the dangerous, overwide streets and surface parking at "the gateway to Queens" has been […]

Facebook Tally: PPW Bike Lane Support Outnumbers Opposition 4 to 1

By Ben Fried | Jul 15, 2010 | 52 Comments

A lot of neighborhood activists swear by the maxim that it’s easier to organize against something than to drum up support for something new. But apparently this rule of thumb doesn’t apply to the Prospect Park West bike lane. Based on the latest tallies from Facebook, the incipient skirmish over New York’s newest two-way protected […]

Manhattan CB 5 Listens to Reason, Endorses Union Square Plan

By Noah Kazis | Jul 9, 2010 | 26 Comments

Pedestrian plazas and bike lanes should calm traffic and tame the dangerous northwest corner of Union Square. Image: NYCDOT After some vocal complaints spurred compromises to NYCDOT’s ambitious original proposal to redesign the streets near Union Square, Manhattan Community Board 5 held strong last night, voting 24-1-1 to move forward with the fundamental safety features […]

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