Recent Streetsblog NYC posts about Traffic

That's the Daily News's Clayton Guse in the far left corner of this photo (on the beat with Queens Supreme Court Justice Joseph Esposito in the center). Photo: Gersh Kuntzman

Circus Comes to Fresh Pond Road as Judge Visits a Bus Lane to Assess Legality

By Gersh Kuntzman | Sep 20, 2019 | 13 Comments

As people gathered to protest government inaction on climate change on Friday, a Queens judge walked nine blocks to decide if the city can prioritize tens of thousands of transit riders over a few dozen car owners.

A DOT rendering from the second phase of the Atlantic Avenue rebuild shows bike lanes along the median. Image: DOT

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Op-Ed: The Atlantic Avenue Rebuild Is Taking Too Long

By David Herman | Jun 24, 2019 | 11 Comments

The next chapter of the Department of Transportation’s long-awaited rebuild of Atlantic Avenue — one of the city’s deadliest corridors — won’t likely start until 2021.

An overload of pedestrians on Eighth Avenue. Photo: DOT

Eighth Avenue To Get a Road Diet to Give More Space to Walkers, Cyclists

By Melodie Bryant | Jun 21, 2019 | 45 Comments

The city is proposing a sweeping transformation between 38th and 45th streets that will reduce car lanes by 20 feet, extend a northbound protected bike lane that currently ends at 39th Street, and widen, by 10 feet, the overcrowded sidewalk from 39th to 41st streets.

The city is being sued to block a protected bike lane on Central Park West — where Madison Lyden was killed last year. Photo: David Meyer

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Recent Streetsblog NYC posts about Traffic

Circus Comes to Fresh Pond Road as Judge Visits a Bus Lane to Assess Legality

Op-Ed: The Atlantic Avenue Rebuild Is Taking Too Long

Eighth Avenue To Get a Road Diet to Give More Space to Walkers, Cyclists

CPW Gets Protected Bike Lane (Yay!) And Loses 400 Parking Spaces (Yay!)

Op-Ed: Treat Traffic Deaths Like the Measles

The DOT Quandary: Double-Parking Isn’t Illegal — Except When It Actually Is