Eyes on the Street: Course Correction on the Dean Street Bike Lane
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By the Barclays Center, the bike lane doesn't direct cyclists to cross the path of car traffic twice in one block anymore.
Recent Streetsblog NYC posts about Prospect Heights
Bike-Share Expansion in Harlem, Astoria, and Central Brooklyn Starts Next Week
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Next Tuesday, September 12, Citi Bike operator Motivate will begin installing 140 new stations and 2,000 bikes in Astoria, Crown Heights, Prospect Heights, and Harlem up to 130th Street, marking the final phase of planned expansion for the four-year-old bike-share system.
Behold the First Bike-Share Expansion Maps of 2017
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DOT has released preliminary station locations for two areas in this year's Citi Bike expansion. The maps will be finalized by June, agency reps told the Brooklyn Community Board 9 transportation committee last night.
78th Precinct Honors Mike Ameri’s Commitment to Safe Streets
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The Bergen Street bike lane between Sixth Avenue and Flatbush was unofficially christened the “Inspector Michael Ameri Bike Lane” yesterday in honor of the late commander of NYPD Highway Patrol. Outside the 78th Precinct, police officers, Public Advocate Letitia James, and local residents honored Ameri, who took his own life on May 13, for his commitment to safe streets. Ameri […]
Brooklyn Electeds to DOT: Put Safety First at Atlantic and Flatbush
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About a dozen people braved the cold Saturday morning to call for pedestrian safety improvements at Brooklyn’s Times Plaza and along the whole Atlantic Avenue corridor. Times Plaza is the triangular public space at the convergence of Atlantic, Flatbush, and Fourth avenues. At a public meeting last month, local residents were disappointed that the redesign proposed […]
DOT Plans East-West Bike Connections in Crown Heights
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DOT presented plans for east-west bike lanes in Prospect Heights and Crown Heights to the Brooklyn CB 8 transportation committee earlier this week [PDF]. The proposal calls for painted lanes on St. Johns Place from Plaza Street East to Rogers Avenue and from New York Avenue to Ralph Avenue, with sharrows on the narrow one-way strip in between. St. Johns fluctuates […]