Two Community Boards Have Endorsed DOT’s Crosstown Bikeway Plan. The Only Holdout Is CB 5.
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Will one holdout community board delay the first crosstown protected bike lanes in Midtown?
Recent Streetsblog NYC posts about Manhattan
Sign the Petition to Fix Canal Street, “Manhattan’s Boulevard of Death”
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Canal Street is Manhattan's preeminent traffic sewer. A loud, dirty, menacing torrent of motorized traffic with cramped sidewalks and no designated space for bicycling, Canal gets pulverized by the "trucker's special," which gives motorists a free ride across Lower Manhattan via the untolled Manhattan Bridge to the untolled westbound Holland Tunnel.
NYPD Security Theater: Out of the Times Square Bike Lane and Onto the Sidewalk
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A few months after the city built a raised bike lane on Seventh Avenue to create a bicycling bypass around the Times Square plazas, NYPD closed if off with barricades in response to a fatal vehicular attack. Seven months later, the bike lane segment is free and clear.
Manhattan Community Board 6 Committee Endorses Crosstown Protected Bike Lanes
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It's the second community board committee to vote for the project of the three community districts along the project route.
Brian Kavanagh: Congestion Pricing “Should Be Part of the Equation”
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Both the Brooklyn and Manhattan sides of Kavanagh's State Senate district are overrun by motorists drawn to the promise of a free trip across the East River.
Whose Streets? Eric Duke’s Streets
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"Maybe I just won't pay our property taxes if my street is taken away from me," the TV production studio owner said of the city's plan to dedicate a seven-foot strip of public street space to bicycling.