Recent Streetsblog NYC posts about Bike Lanes

The Right Way to Double Park a Delivery Truck

By Ben Fried | Jul 15, 2008 | 22 Comments

This handy illustration, courtesy of DOT via "Gridlock" Sam Schwartz, should be in the training curriculum for every delivery driver who does business in New York. Streetfilms’ Clarence Eckerson, who came across this graphic last week, says his appeals to delivery drivers stationed in bike lanes are often met by the excuse that it is […]

Et Tu, Mister Softee?

By Aaron Naparstek | Jul 14, 2008 | 49 Comments

Mister Softee set up shop on the Prince Street bike lane near the corner of Broadway this weekend. Note the pedestrians squeezing through the narrow strip of sidewalk between the ice cream truck and the subway railing. Prince Street, you may recall, was slated to go car-free on Sunday’s all summer long until the SoHo […]

Queens CBs Greet Vernon Boulevard Bike Lanes With Skepticism

By Ben Fried | Jul 7, 2008 | 19 Comments

Last month, DOT striped buffered bike lanes on Vernon Boulevard (right), part of a package of safety improvements for the north-south corridor that parallels the western Queens waterfront [PDF]. Bike facilities are scarce in this part of the city, and the addition of the new lanes, which eliminated a lane of parking along parts of […]

¡Arriba Sevilla!

By Sarah Goodyear | Jun 30, 2008 | 9 Comments

I was in Seville last week for the first time since February 2007, and in the intervening year there’s been something of a transportation revolution in the city. It’s most visibly evident in the Sevici bike-share bikes (bicis in Spanish) that are everywhere. The system launched in April 2007, and ultimately there will be 250 […]

Squad Cars Clear Out of Dekalb Bike Lane

By Ben Fried | Jun 20, 2008 | 12 Comments

A tipster sends photographic evidence that the NYPD does, at times, show cyclists some courtesy. Last week, a post on Clinton Hill Blog drew attention to parked squad cars at the 88th Precinct jutting out into the bike lane on Brooklyn’s Dekalb Avenue. Streetsblog and Gothamist picked up the photo, and now those cars are […]

Eyes on the Street: Dekalb Bike Lane Used for NYPD Parking

By Brad Aaron | Jun 12, 2008 | 28 Comments

From Clinton Hill Blog via Gothamist: Since I’ve been biking a lot lately, I’ve come to realize how wonderful bike lanes actually are. I’m pleased to say that we now have a bike lane on both Myrtle AND DeKalb! However, I have noticed that the DeKalb bike lane seems to be contributing to the bottle […]

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