Recent Streetsblog NYC posts about Commuting

Bike & Ped Improvements Slated for Manhattan Bridge Approach

By Sarah Goodyear | Aug 27, 2007 | 18 Comments

DOT plans to build a physically-separated two-way bike lane on this one block stretch of Canal Street at the foot of the Manhattan Bridge. The project also includes pedestrian safety fixes. The Manhattan approach to the Manhattan Bridge, where Chinatown and the Lower East Side come together in a jumble, has long presented one of […]

Ich bin ein Bicyclist

By Jason Varone | Aug 24, 2007 | 17 Comments

In a report for CBSnews.com on Berlin, Germany’s booming bike culture, Christine Lagorio expresses shock at the sheer number of bikes she saw in Berlin and the way in which motorists and cyclists share the road "gracefully." This, she says, is something she has never experienced in her home town of New York City. In […]

Make Your Own Subway Advisory

By Jason Varone | Aug 23, 2007 | No Comments

The SUBWAYblogger found a potentially useful new tool for users of Facebook, a social utility that connects people with friends and others who work, study and live around them. The Subway Status application, which was not developed by the MTA, is a user generated subway alert system. Now you can forget about those wet mornings […]

Central Park 66th Street Transverse Is Unsafe

By Glenn McAnanama | Aug 22, 2007 | 11 Comments

A Streetsblog reader brings us an update on the case of the cyclist killed last December in the Central Park Transverse, through information obtained via a Freedom of Information Act request. In the documents sent to Streetsblog, it shows that the motor vehicle "struck the bicyclist as both vehicles attempted to merge into the same path […]

Henry Hudson Bridge Closed Until 2010, Unless You’re In a Car

By Brad Aaron | Aug 16, 2007 | 9 Comments

Earlier this summer, pedestrians and cyclists in northern Manhattan and the Bronx were surprised to learn that the walkway on the Henry Hudson Bridge, which spans the Harlem River to connect Inwood Hill Park with the neighborhoods of Spuyten Duyvil and Riverdale, would be closed due to construction. For three years. In 2004, the New York Metropolitan Transportation Council […]

City Still Sending Mixed Signals on Bike Parking

By Jason Varone | Aug 16, 2007 | 1 Comment

A tipster sent us these photos of the City’s new indoor bicycle parking facility at 280 Broadway. A couple of months ago cyclists who work for the City suddenly found themselves and their bikes turned away from their office buildings, leaving few options aside from locking up to street signs and unprotected outdoor racks. This […]

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