Recent Streetsblog NYC posts about Bike Lanes

Anthony Foxx Kicks Off Nationwide Project for Better Bike Lanes

By Michael Andersen | Apr 29, 2014 | No Comments

Staring down a highway trust fund that he described as “teetering toward insolvency” by August or September, U.S. Transportation Secretary Anthony Foxx said Monday that better bike infrastructure projects are part of the solution. “When you have a swelling population like the USA has and will have for the next 35 years, one of the […]

You Can Now Bring Street Transformations to Life With Google Street View

By Angie Schmitt | Apr 25, 2014 | No Comments

If you ever want to show someone that it’s possible to change streets and cities for the better, Google Street View can now help you do it. Google recently made it possible to view archived Street View images. This means it’s easier than ever to show what streets looked like before and after a redesign. […]

After CB 4 Committee Signs on, DOT Will Study Safer Fifth and Sixth Avenues

By Stephen Miller | Apr 21, 2014 | 18 Comments

After a unanimous vote of support from Community Board 5, a request for DOT to study protected bike lanes and pedestrian improvements on Fifth and Sixth Avenues in Manhattan got another boost from the CB 4 transportation committee last Wednesday. After the committee’s unanimous 6-0 vote, a DOT representative said the agency intends to begin […]

Eyes on the Street: An Early Look at the Lafayette Protected Bike Lane

By Ben Fried | Apr 18, 2014 | 20 Comments

Crews have been making good progress on the Lafayette Street redesign [PDF], the first protected bike lane project installed by the de Blasio administration. As of yesterday, the striping work had progressed from Spring Street up past 4th Street, where Philip Winn of Project for Public Spaces snapped these photos. The Lafayette Street project will […]

East 106th Street Road Diet and Bike Lanes Head to Manhattan CB 11

By Stephen Miller | Apr 16, 2014 | 11 Comments

Running between Fifth Avenue and FDR Drive, 106th Street in East Harlem should provide a key bike connection between Central Park and Randall’s Island. NYC DOT is proposing a road diet and painted bike lanes [PDF] to improve safety on the street, and Community Board 11’s transportation committee could vote on the plan soon. At 60 […]

Bike Lanes Don’t Lead to Congestion, But Some of Them Should

By Angie Schmitt | Apr 11, 2014 | No Comments

Gretchen Johnson and Aaron Johnson have posted a nice debunking of typical “war on cars” rhetoric over at fivethirtyeight. Johnson and Johnson gathered before-and-after traffic data from 45 miles of streets where Minneapolis installed bike lanes. They also looked at how Brooklyn’s Prospect Park West bike lane affected traffic conditions. They found, in short, that after the installation of […]

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