Recent Streetsblog NYC posts about Protected Bike Lanes

To keep making progress on traffic safety, redesigns as substantial as this protected bike lane planned for Fourth Avenue in Brooklyn will have to be implemented citywide. Image: NYC DOT

DOT Shows Its Plan to Get the Reconstruction of 4th Avenue Right

By Ben Fried | May 3, 2017 | 35 Comments

Fourth Avenue is far and away the most viable potential bike route linking Bay Ridge, Sunset Park, and Park Slope, but it's still scary to ride on, with no designated space for cycling. At 4.5 miles long, a protected bike lane would make the reconstructed Fourth Avenue one of the most important two-way streets for bicycle travel in the city, connecting dense residential neighborhoods to jobs and schools.

A rendering of the redesigned Queens Boulevard once it's built out with concrete and street plantings. Image: DOT

Queens Boulevard Safety Overhaul in Rego Park Clears Community Board 6 Committee

By David Meyer | May 2, 2017 | 21 Comments

Last night, the public got a look at the next phase of DOT's Queens Boulevard redesign, which will extend protected bike lanes, pedestrian safety improvements, and traffic calming treatments through Rego Park to Yellowstone Boulevard. The project got a thumbs up from the Queens Community Board 6 transportation committee in a 7 to 3 vote.

The DOT plan would shorten crossing distances and make room for a two-way protected bike lane. Image: DOT

Making It Safer to Walk or Bike to Van Cortlandt Park By Taming Broadway in the Northwest Bronx

By David Meyer | Apr 26, 2017 | 15 Comments

Despite its proximity to Van Cortlandt Park, Broadway north of 242nd Street feels like a highway. Two years ago, Council Member Andrew Cohen asked for safety improvements, and last night DOT presented a plan to narrow crossing distances and add a two-way protected bike lane along the park.

The project will repurpose one general traffic lane to make room for a curbside parking-protected bike lane. Image: NYC DOT

NYC DOT Plans Protected Bike Lane for 24 Blocks of 7th Ave

By David Meyer | Apr 20, 2017 | 57 Comments

DOT aims to install a protected bike lane on Seventh Avenue from 30th Street to Charlton Street by the end of the year. Agency staff presented a portion of the project at last night's Manhattan Community Board 4 transportation committee meeting.

Council Member Karen Koslowitz, far right, said in 2015 that she would support "whatever it takes" to make Queens Boulevard a safe street. Photo: Ben Fried

Karen Koslowitz Walks Back Her Pledge to Support a Safer Design for Queens Boulevard

By David Meyer | Apr 18, 2017 | 20 Comments

Two years ago, Council Member Karen Koslowitz stood with people who'd lost loved ones to traffic violence and said the city should do "whatever it takes" to turn deadly Queens Boulevard into a "boulevard of life" -- even if that entailed the removal of travel lanes or parking spaces. Now that the city is ready to redesign Queens Boulevard in her district, however, Koslowitz is losing her resolve.

City Council Majority Leader Jimmy Van Bramer, podium, speaking this morning alongside Flor Jimenez, left, whose husband Gelacio Reyes was killed biking on 43rd Avenue on April 1. Photo: David Meyer

Van Bramer Calls for Protected Bike Lanes on 43rd Avenue in Sunnyside

By David Meyer | Apr 13, 2017 | 4 Comments

After two crashes in ten days at the same Sunnyside intersection left one cyclist dead and another in critical condition, Council Member Jimmy Van Bramer is calling on DOT to take immediate action and install a protected bike lane on 43rd Avenue between Queens Boulevard and Roosevelt Avenue.

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