Recent Streetsblog NYC posts about Protected Bike Lanes

A Refresher on How PPW Bike Lane Opponents Cherrypick Their Numbers

By Ben Fried | Jun 10, 2013 | 20 Comments

While parents and kids were out celebrating three years of safe, all-ages cycling at the Prospect Park West Family Bike Ride last week, the remnants of NBBL were apparently scouring their Rolodex for media contacts who still take them seriously. A short item from Post columnist David Seifman notes that unidentified “critics” of the PPW […]

Does the Gender Disparity in Engineering Harm Cycling in the U.S.?

By Angie Schmitt | May 17, 2013 | No Comments

A study published in this month’s American Journal of Public Health finds that highly influential transportation engineers relied on shoddy research to defend policies that discourage the development of protected bike lanes in the U.S. In their paper, the researchers point out that male-dominated engineering panels have repeatedly torpedoed street designs that have greater appeal […]

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A Bike-Parking Protected Bike Lane Grows in Manhattan

By Clarence Eckerson Jr. | Apr 18, 2013 | No Comments

A few years ago, it was a pretty big deal when on-street bike parking was installed in any city. Though it is always welcome news, today it hardly merits a mention. But you can find another milestone on the protected bike lane on Ninth Avenue (which was NYC’s first), where three bike corrals have been installed between […]

Eyes on the Street: Mixing Zone, D.C.-Style

By Ben Fried | Mar 13, 2013 | 27 Comments

Reader Mike Epstein sends in this photo of a “mixing zone” on L Street in downtown Washington, D.C., that looks a lot different than the ones here in NYC. Mixing zones are the areas where bike traffic merges with turning car traffic at the approach to intersections along protected bike lanes. New York’s mixing zones […]

Illinois DOT Blocks Protected Bike Lanes on Many Chicago Streets Until 2014

By Steven Vance | Feb 5, 2013 | No Comments

An interesting example of state DOT interference in local street safety policy, from our team in Chicago… Last month we noted that the Illinois Department of Transportation prevented the installation of a protected bike lane planned for Jackson Boulevard, allowing only a buffered bike lane on the segment of the street it controls. Now we know […]

An Open Letter to CB 7 Transportation Chairs Dan Zweig and Andrew Albert

By Mark Gorton | Jan 11, 2013 | 5 Comments

Mark Gorton is the publisher of Streetsblog and lives on the Upper West Side with his wife and four children. This is an edited version of a message he sent to Dan Zweig and Andrew Albert, the co-chairs of the Community Board 7 transportation committee, after neither of them voted in favor of extending the […]

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