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Eyes on the Street: Lafayette Street Gets Its Bike Lane Back

By David Meyer | Apr 21, 2016 | 23 Comments

One of New York City’s most faded bike lanes has gotten its shine back. There’s a fresh coat of thermoplast on the Lafayette Street bike lane between Spring Street and Canal Street, which for a while had almost completely disappeared. The erosion of bike markings and the long lag times between resurfacing streets and restriping bike lanes became such […]

Concerned About Illegal Parking? Stuff It, Says P.C. Richard & Son

By Brad Aaron | Apr 12, 2016 | 6 Comments

@PCRichardandSon What’s today’s excuse for blocking traffic? The loading zone was clear just 50′ to the east. pic.twitter.com/VRZrkPT3eC — Jeremy M. Posner (@jmp_nyc) April 11, 2016 Here’s one company doing business in NYC that doesn’t want to hear about fleet safety. When Jeremy M. Posner tweeted P.C. Richard and Son about a double-parked delivery truck in front of a […]

Eyes on the Street: Outlines Appear for Seaman Avenue Bike Lane, Sharrows

By Brad Aaron | Apr 1, 2016 | 16 Comments

Preliminary markings for a bike lane and sharrows appeared on Seaman Avenue in Inwood yesterday, nearly two years after DOT resurfaced the street. Seaman Avenue runs from Dyckman/200th Street to W. 218th Street. The only north-south through street in Inwood west of Broadway, Seaman serves as a bike connection between the Hudson River Greenway and the Bronx, in addition […]

Eyes on the Street: Early Spring Means Earlier “Street Seats”

By David Meyer | Mar 2, 2016 | 20 Comments

Despite this weekend’s snow forecast, for a few days there it felt freakishly like spring. Yet another sign of winter’s demise is the reemergence of DOT’s “Street Seats.” Charles Komanoff sent Streetsblog this picture of the temporary outdoor seating area being re-installed outside of Laughing Man Coffee and Tea on Duane Street in Tribeca. The corral […]

DOT Adds Welcome Chunk of Pedestrian Space to Bronx Broadway Hellscape

By Brad Aaron | Feb 26, 2016 | 24 Comments

DOT reclaimed a nice chunk of space for pedestrians on a corner of Broadway in the Bronx, bringing some relief to an area that’s otherwise deplorable for New Yorkers who walk and bike. The curb on the northwest corner of Broadway at W. 231st Street in Kingsbridge, beneath the elevated 1 train, was once lined with parked […]

Eyes on the Street: DIY School Zone Traffic-Calming in Corona

By Brad Aaron | Feb 9, 2016 | 3 Comments

Today Transportation Alternatives staff and members of Families for Safe Streets are in Albany, asking legislators to allow NYC to install speed enforcement cameras near every school in the city. This example of a crossing guard’s efforts to defend school kids in Queens, courtesy of Streetfilms’ Clarence Eckerson Jr., is another good illustration of why the state should lift arbitrary […]

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