Recent Streetsblog NYC posts about Protected Bike Lanes

Helen Rosenthal Won’t Say Why She Reappointed Street Safety Foe to CB 7

By Stephen Miller | Apr 28, 2015 | 29 Comments

Members of Families For Safe Streets asked Council Member Helen Rosenthal at a town hall meeting last night why she reappointed street safety foe and longtime Community Board 7 transportation committee co-chair Dan Zweig. But Rosenthal refused to answer questions from Upper West Siders who have lost loved ones to traffic violence. Zweig has spent years stonewalling […]

Minneapolis Sets Out to Build 30 Miles of Protected Bike Lanes By 2020

By Angie Schmitt | Apr 21, 2015 | No Comments

Minneapolis is one of the best cities for biking in the U.S., and it wants to get better. Last week the city released a plan to build 30 miles of protected bike lanes over the next five years and a total of 48 over 10 years. Minneapolis has an expansive, widely used trail system, and its 4.5 […]

Kent Avenue: A Bikeway for All Ages

By Ben Fried | Apr 20, 2015 | 4 Comments

While Clarence was out this weekend taping Right of Way install a memorial to victims of traffic violence, he also got this footage of the Kent Avenue bike lane in Williamsburg. Where else but a protected bike lane will you ever see so many kids biking on the street in NYC? Not that long ago, Kent Avenue […]

Helen Rosenthal Asks DOT to Install Protected Bike Lane on Amsterdam Ave

By Stephen Miller | Apr 10, 2015 | 9 Comments

Council Member Helen Rosenthal has come out strongly for a protected bike lane on Amsterdam Avenue, sending a letter to DOT this week asking for a plan to calm traffic and provide a northbound complement to the Columbus Avenue bike lane. “We need to make Amsterdam Avenue safer for families, and that’s just what this street redesign […]

Los Angeles Gets Its First Protected Bike Lanes

By Joe Linton | Apr 3, 2015 | No Comments

Implementation of the very first parking-protected bike lanes in Los Angeles is underway on Reseda Boulevard in Northridge.

Detroit Breaks Ground on First Protected Bike Lane Project

By Angie Schmitt | Apr 3, 2015 | No Comments

The Motor City is getting its first taste of on-street protected bike infrastructure. Work has begun on a street redesign that will bring Detroit its very first bike lane where parked cars will protect riders from motor vehicle traffic. The bike lane is part of a road diet for Jefferson Avenue in the historic Jefferson-Chalmers business district. […]

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