N’East Queens to DOT: Give Us the Safest Bike Lanes, Not Just Paint
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They want the best or nothing.
Recent Streetsblog NYC posts about Protected Bike Lanes
DOT Study Shows that Bike Lanes Cut Risk of Cyclist Injury By One-Third (Yes, And…?)
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So remind us again? How come every street doesn't have a bike lane?
E-Cyclist Rider Killed on Roadway that Once Had a Protected Bike Lane … Until DOT Downgraded It
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A teenager in a 4,000-pound Chevy pickup truck driving the wrong way on a dangerous Queens overpass struck and killed an e-bike rider who was in a bike lane that the city had once built as a "protected" bike lane, but then downgraded to mere paint after drivers destroyed all the flex-posts that once secured the lane.
New Bike Lanes Coming to Howard Beach — But Not on the Damn Addabbo Bridge
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How come the Brooklyn Bridge can get thousands of pounds of new jersey barriers, but the existing barriers on the Addabbo Bridge can't simply be moved?
Will New Brooklyn Bridge Bike Path Also Reform a Notorious Placard Zone?
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The protected bike lane on the roadbed of the Brooklyn Bridge is about to open, but the real news is what the Department of Transportation is doing just north of the bridge's Manhattan end — where a redesign of Foley Square has the potential to clean up one of the most notorious placard abuse zones in the city.
An American Buys an E-Bike Every 52 Seconds
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The two-wheeled electric vehicle revolution is taking off — but is Washington up to the task?