Recent Streetsblog NYC posts about Bike Lanes

Street Seats and Bike Lanes Come to Brownsville and East New York

By Stephen Miller | Aug 12, 2015 | 11 Comments

Livable streets improvements are rolling out for residents of Brownsville and East New York. Two new Street Seats have popped up just blocks from each other on Pitkin Avenue and Mother Gaston Boulevard. Meanwhile, DOT is installing the neighborhood’s latest round of bike lanes. After a community-based planning process that began in 2011, the first phase […]

Eyes on the Street: Queens Boulevard Gets Its Bike Lane

By Stephen Miller | Aug 5, 2015 | 60 Comments

It’s happening: DOT crews are putting down green paint and thermoplastic stripes along 1.3 miles of Queens Boulevard between Roosevelt Avenue and 73rd Street. The redesign is the de Blasio administration’s most significant bike project to date and includes several pedestrian safety improvements as well. It was prompted by a long advocacy campaign for safer biking on the boulevard, […]

Eyes on the Street: The Case of the Missing Bike Lanes, Part II

By Stephen Miller | Jul 31, 2015 | 28 Comments

Why does 9th St. still (as of last week) look like a runway for jumbo jets after resurfacing? @NYC_DOT @bradlander pic.twitter.com/9JmRNfwpHJ — Joanna Oltman Smith (@jooltman) July 28, 2015 Turns out many of the city’s marquee Vision Zero projects aren’t the only streets missing bike lanes. DOT has also allowed its existing bike lanes to fade away. […]

Tish James Calls on DOT to Make Bike Lanes Standard on Vision Zero Projects

By Ben Fried | Jul 28, 2015 | 5 Comments

Have you noticed that DOT street safety projects are leaving out bike lanes even when there’s plenty of room for them? So has Public Advocate Tish James. In a letter to Transportation Commissioner Polly Trottenberg last week, James called on DOT to make bike lanes a default feature of street redesigns, especially on wide arterial streets where […]

Uber Makes the Case for NYC Cyclists to Download Lyft

By Ben Fried | Jul 21, 2015 | 64 Comments

It’s hard to make livable streets advocates take the same side of an issue as the taxi medallion industry, but Uber’s general manager in New York, Josh Mohrer, is giving it his best shot. In a Q&A with Kevin Roose about Uber’s clash with City Hall, Mohrer completely flubbed his chance to make a pitch for […]

Eyes on the Street: The 158th Street Connector

By Ben Fried | Jul 21, 2015 | 25 Comments

The paint is down on what will be a short two-way bike lane on 158th Street in Washington Heights, part of a package of DOT improvements [PDF] to make biking and walking safer between the Hudson River Greenway and the recently reopened High Bridge linking Upper Manhattan to the Bronx. This segment runs between the Henry […]

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