Recent Streetsblog NYC posts about Protected Bike Lanes

First Avenue Bike Lane Designs Prove, Again, There’s No War On Cars

By Noah Kazis | Sep 8, 2011 | 7 Comments

Here’s a question for the tabloids: if Janette Sadik-Khan is really a “psycho bike lady,” why isn’t there a protected bike lane on First Avenue in midtown Manhattan? To ask the question is to answer it. Under Sadik-Khan, the Department of Transportation has been implementing more innovative and progressive policy than under previous administrations, but […]

CB 8 Committee May Not Love Cyclists, But Still Votes for Safer First Avenue

By Noah Kazis | Sep 8, 2011 | 18 Comments

On the Upper East Side, community board members are willing to vote for safer streets, so long as they can vent about cyclists beforehand. After a discussion that emphasized bad bike behavior, the transportation committee of Community Board 8 voted 9-2, with one abstention, to support the construction of a protected bike lane on First […]

CB 11 Committee, Joined By Mark-Viverito, Votes For East Harlem Bike Lanes

By Noah Kazis | Sep 7, 2011 | 7 Comments

The transportation committee of Manhattan Community Board 11 wants to see protected bike lanes on First and Second Avenues, which the city promised for East Harlem last year and then delayed. Joined by City Council Member Melissa Mark-Viverito, who spoke strongly in favor of the project, the committee endorsed plans to build protected lanes between […]

Next Week: DOT to Re-Present Plans for East Side Bike Lanes Up to 125th

By Brad Aaron | Aug 31, 2011 | 4 Comments

After over a year of protests from residents and electeds clamoring for safer streets, next week DOT will present its proposal for extending the First and Second Avenue bike lanes north to 125th Street. The presentations will mark the second time around the community board circuit for bike-ped safety plans on those streets, which were […]

Rewind: The Taming and Reclaiming of Prospect Park West

By Ben Fried | Aug 17, 2011 | 1 Comment

It’s been nearly a year since we first ran Robin Urban Smith’s Streetfilm on the Prospect Park West redesign. A lot has happened since then, but the lane is working as well as ever and I can’t think of a better way to wrap up this important day for NYC street safety policy than to […]

Victory for Safe Streets: Judge Rejects Prospect Park West Bike Lane Lawsuit

By Ben Fried and Noah Kazis | Aug 17, 2011 | 26 Comments

Brooklyn Supreme Court Justice Bert Bunyan dismissed the lawsuit seeking to reverse the redesign of Prospect Park West yesterday, putting an end to a protracted, ugly chapter in the annals of NYC street safety improvements. The lawsuit, brought this March by a group of politically-connected opponents who failed to participate in the years of public […]

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