Recent Streetsblog NYC posts about Bike Lanes

Reason Prevails at the End of Upper East Side Bike Lane Meeting

By David Meyer | May 5, 2016 | 21 Comments

Bringing some resolution to one of the more absurd bike lane stories in recent memory, last night the Manhattan Community Board 8 transportation committee voted 9-2 in favor of a DOT plan to add three pairs of crosstown bike lanes on the Upper East Side. First came many protestations about how these bike lane stripes have no place […]

Eyes on the Street: Bike Lane Stripes on Tremont Avenue

By David Meyer | May 4, 2016 | 18 Comments

DOT has striped the first pieces of the Bronx’s newest bike route on Tremont Avenue. The city is putting down bike lanes and sharrows on the 4.1-mile stretch of Tremont Avenue between Cedar Avenue and Boston Road, following a 2014 request from Council Member Ritchie Torres for a cross-town route on Tremont. Reader Jonathan Rabinowitz snapped the photo above of freshly-painted […]

Streetfilms Shortie: Double-Parking Insanity in the Jay Street Bike Lane

By Clarence Eckerson Jr. | May 3, 2016 | 19 Comments

While out collecting footage yesterday, one of my missions was to document a whole bunch of street conditions that NYC DOT is actively working to improve. One was the chronic double-parking that has overrun the Jay Street bike lane in Downtown Brooklyn forever. The level of disregard for the bike lane is just about unmatched anywhere else in […]

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Ride the New Pulaski Bridge Bikeway With Streetfilms

By Clarence Eckerson Jr. | Apr 29, 2016 | No Comments

Today was a milestone for traveling between Brooklyn and Queens: NYC DOT opened the Pulaski Bridge bike path to lots of cheers with a celebratory ride. Before today, the Pulaski Bridge walking and biking path was dangerously congested, with more pedestrians and cyclists crammed on to its narrow right-of-way every year. The solution? Convert one lane of the roadway to a two-way […]

Eyes on the Street: Lafayette Street Gets Its Bike Lane Back

By David Meyer | Apr 21, 2016 | 23 Comments

One of New York City’s most faded bike lanes has gotten its shine back. There’s a fresh coat of thermoplast on the Lafayette Street bike lane between Spring Street and Canal Street, which for a while had almost completely disappeared. The erosion of bike markings and the long lag times between resurfacing streets and restriping bike lanes became such […]

Fast Changes to City Streets: A 9-Step Guide for Creative Bureaucrats

By Michael Andersen | Mar 28, 2016 | No Comments

Michael Andersen blogs for The Green Lane Project, a PeopleForBikes program that helps U.S. cities build better bike lanes to create low-stress streets. For most of the 20th century, cities answered transportation problems by adding more pavement. More freeways. More lanes. More parking lots. More things that couldn’t be reversed or revised. So it made […]

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