Recent Streetsblog NYC posts about Bike Lanes

As Vision Zero Shapes NYC Streets, Don’t Forget the Bike Lanes

By John Petro | Jun 3, 2014 | 14 Comments

When New York City began to rapidly accelerate the expansion of its bike network in 2007 — adding 366 miles of bike lanes over seven years — the pent-up demand for cycling became strikingly clear. More New Yorkers are choosing to commute by bike. Between 2009 and 2012, the number of city residents riding to […]

Eyes on the Street: New Bike Path, Same Old Illegal Parking

By Stephen Miller | Jun 2, 2014 | 51 Comments

Well, that didn’t take long. The paint is barely dry on the new two-way bike path on Kent Avenue in South Williamsburg, and drivers are using it as car storage for minivans. Again. Robert Wright snapped a photo of cars blocking the bike lanes and sidewalk in full view of NYPD Traffic officers. “What’s the […]

Community Boards Split on Franklin Avenue Road Diet and Bike Lane

By Stephen Miller | May 30, 2014 | 7 Comments

A proposal to enhance safety on Franklin Avenue in Crown Heights, which would put the street on a road diet and extend a painted bike lane one mile further south, is stuck in a tale of two community boards. CB 8, which covers the northern half of the project, is set to back the plan […]

Eyes on the Street: Bikeway Upgrade Calms Deadly Stretch of Kent Avenue

By Stephen Miller | May 28, 2014 | 10 Comments

A project that slims a dangerous section of Kent Avenue in South Williamsburg and straightens out an awkward stretch of the Brooklyn Waterfront Greenway route is nearing the finish line. In March 2013, Julio Acevedo was driving north on Kent Avenue at 69 mph when he killed Raizy and Nathan Glauber, both 21, in a two-car […]

Eyes on the Street: Whole Foods Takes the Whole Bike Lane (and Sidewalk)

By Stephen Miller | May 2, 2014 | 23 Comments

The huge surface parking lot and inward-facing, suburban-style design were bad enough. Now the Gowanus Whole Foods Market is taking over the Third Avenue bike lane and sidewalk as a private loading zone. Doug Gordon of Brooklyn Spoke snapped a photo of a Whole Foods forklift and piles of pallets using the Third Avenue buffered bike […]

Imagining a New Atlantic Avenue for de Blasio’s New York

By John Petro | May 1, 2014 | 6 Comments

Atlantic Avenue is one of New York’s most prominent streets, and in most respects, it is completely broken. Stretching more than ten miles, Atlantic cuts through several neighborhoods in Brooklyn and Queens while functioning mainly as an urban highway for private motorists and truckers making their way east, toward the Van Wyck and Long Island, or […]

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