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New Bike Stencils Completed on the Lower East Side

By Jason Varone | Nov 15, 2006 | 8 Comments

As on Brookyn’s Fifth Avenue this weekend, it looks like DOT has finished installing the new Class III bike route stencils on Clinton and Delancey Streets. If you ride this route, let Streetsblog know what you think of these. Related: New "Shared Lane" Bike Route Design Spotted in Manhattan New Bike Markings on the Upper West Side City […]

Traffic Relief Rally at City Hall This Morning

By Aaron Naparstek | Nov 14, 2006 | No Comments

Councilmember Gale Brewer joined Transportation Alternatives and representatives of community groups from all over the city at this morning’s Citywide Coalition for Traffic Relief rally on the steps of City Hall. The Coalition currently includes 129 community organizations. These organizations have signed on to a petition calling on the Bloomberg Administration to devlop "a comprehensive traffic […]

London’s Cycling Design Standards: A Model for NYC?

By Aaron Naparstek | Nov 13, 2006 | 11 Comments

As New York City begins fulfilling its commitment to build 200 miles of new bicycle lanes over the next three years, the question will increasingly arise: What kind of bike lane should go where? Currently, DOT seems not to have any set of guidelines to answer that question. So, take a look at how the City of London does it. Transportation […]

Gridlock Sam Tells the Story of NYC’s First Bike Lanes

By Aaron Naparstek | Nov 13, 2006 | 18 Comments

Last weekend, former DOT Deputy Commissioner "Gridlock" Sam Schwartz wrote an op-ed in the New York Times urging the city to start creating bike lanes that physically separate cyclists from motor vehicle traffic at some locations. This weekend, as DOT laid down a brand new "shared lane" design on Fifth Avenue in Brooklyn, a letter to the editor […]

Birth of a Class III Bike Route

By Aaron Naparstek | Nov 13, 2006 | 15 Comments

Department of Transportation contractors put down the long-awaited Class III "Shared Lane" bicycle stencils on Brooklyn’s Fifth Avenue this weekend. As I understand them, the markings are meant to do two things: Inform cyclists that Fifth Avenue is a preferred bike route. The more people who bike on Fifth Avenue, the safer Fifth Avenue will be for biking. […]

The Cost of Doing Business in Midtown

By Aaron Naparstek | Nov 10, 2006 | 3 Comments

New York City seems to be under some sort of SUV attack this week. In midtown this afternoon a hulking sports utility vehicle careened up onto the sidewalk and smashed through the window of the Cambridge Members clothing store on Broadway near Herald Square, according to a Streetsblog tipster. Word has it, three pedestrians […]

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