Recent Streetsblog NYC posts about Bike Lanes

Eyes on the Street: Much of the 158th St. Greenway Connector Is Missing

By Brad Aaron | Jul 15, 2016 | 20 Comments

A utility crew ripped up 158th Street where a two-way bike lane connects to the Hudson River Greenway and hasn’t re-installed the bike lane after patching up the asphalt. A reader sent us photos of the bikeway, which is supposed to be a green, two-way route between Broadway and the Henry Hudson Parkway, separated from car traffic by plastic posts. A […]

DOT Moves Ahead With Two Pairs of Upper East Side Bike Lanes

By David Meyer | Jun 24, 2016 | 18 Comments

With Manhattan Community Board 8 failing to agree on three pairs of Upper East Side crosstown bike lanes, DOT will go ahead with painted bike lanes on 70th/71st and 77th/78th streets early next month. So concludes the year’s most ridiculous bike lane story, an epic drama that at one point outed Woody Allen as a full-on bike lane NIMBY. […]

After 8 Years, DOT Finally Has a Bike Plan for Dyckman St. CB 12: Not So Fast.

By David Meyer | Jun 24, 2016 | 28 Comments

Eight years after uptown advocates first called for a bike connection across Inwood, linking greenways along the Hudson River and the Harlem River, DOT has a bike lane plan for Dyckman Street. Between Broadway and Nagle Avenue, the redesign would convert the current four-lane design into DOT’s standard road diet template — a general traffic lane and a five-foot-wide un-protected bike lane in […]

Metropolitan Bridge Bike Lane Will Connect Ridgewood and Williamsburg

By David Meyer | Jun 15, 2016 | 13 Comments

After two years of back-and-forth with the local community board, a proposal to link the bike networks of Williamsburg and Ridgewood via the Metropolitan Avenue Bridge may finally be coming to fruition. DOT presented an updated version of the plan, which it first unveiled in June 2014, to Brooklyn Community Board 1 last night [PDF]. The Metropolitan Avenue […]

The Case for the “Amity Street Wiggle”

By David Meyer | Jun 10, 2016 | 11 Comments

Ian Dutton has an idea to improve the eastbound bike route through Cobble Hill. The street network has no good, officially-sanctioned bike connection from points west of Court Street onto the Dean Street bike lane. But hundreds of cyclists each day make their own route, taking Amity Street, then doing a short jog against traffic on Court Street […]

Manhattan CB 8 Votes Against Basic Striped Crosstown Bike Lanes

By David Meyer | May 19, 2016 | 63 Comments

Last night, by a vote of 25-19 with one abstention, Manhattan Community Board 8 voted against DOT’s plan for three pairs of painted crosstown bike lanes on the Upper East Side. Despite four months of deliberations, bike lane opponents managed to achieve their desired outcome last night, sending a strong signal that no bike lane design is too mild to avoid their wrath. […]

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