Recent Streetsblog NYC posts about Bike Lanes

Who Knew? Memphis on Track to Add 55 Miles of Bike Lanes in Just Two Years

By Angie Schmitt | Nov 11, 2011 | No Comments

It seems nowadays you aren’t truly a bike-friendly city until you’ve had your first civic dust-up over bike lanes. And by that standard, Memphis, Tennessee has arrived. Last month, this mid-sized Southern city fought back challenges by business owners to install a bike lane on one of its main major commercial thoroughfares, Madison Avenue. That […]

Is Car-Crushing Mayor Arturas Zuokas on the Prowl in New York?

By Brad Aaron | Nov 9, 2011 | 5 Comments

Think twice before blocking that bike lane. Arturas Zuokas, the Mercedes-crushing mayor of the Lithuanian city of Vilnius, has launched a new campaign to curb illegal parking. Here is Zuokas, as quoted from a press release: “Every single day, we go about our work and try to be good citizens. And we run into obstacles […]

CB 2 Committee Endorses Parking-Protected Hudson St. Bike Lane

By Noah Kazis | Nov 9, 2011 | 7 Comments

The transportation committee of Manhattan Community Board 2 voted unanimously on Tuesday to endorse a community-generated plan to upgrade the Hudson Street bike lane to a parking-protected lane. Right now, Hudson Street has a buffered bike lane. It’s one of the oldest in the city according to Ian Dutton, a former vice chair of the […]

Brownsville Residents Push For Neighborhood’s First Bike Lanes

By Noah Kazis | Nov 8, 2011 | 12 Comments

Brownsville wants safer streets for biking. Currently there isn’t a single bike lane inside this eastern Brooklyn neighborhood, though two bike lanes run along the edges of Brownsville on East New York Avenue and Rockaway Parkway. Neighborhood activists, including the business community, senior citizens and public health advocates, are now organizing to convince the city […]

City Council Votes to Increase Oversight of Bike Lane Removal

By Ben Fried | Nov 4, 2011 | 9 Comments

Yesterday the City Council passed Lew Fidler’s Intro 412 — the bill mandating community board notification about the installation of bike lanes — setting the stage for some showboating from Fidler, Speaker Christine Quinn and Transportation Committee Chair James Vacca. “Our legislation will ensure the Department of Transportation works with community boards and fully considers […]

Weprin Survey Finds 61 Percent Like Bike Lanes, Even in Eastern Queens

By Noah Kazis | Oct 21, 2011 | 11 Comments

Several surveys this year by top polling organizations have found citywide support for bike lanes. And in Park Slope and the Upper West Side, questionnaires put out by local elected officials have shown consistent neighborhood-level approval for new bike infrastructure. Now, another member of the City Council has found widespread enthusiasm for the city’s bike […]

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