Eyes on the Street: Alternate Route
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Musings on ‘point sends this photo from Warren and Church in Lower Manhattan. We love the idea of DIY traffic control. Grab your cardboard and markers, folks.
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Eyes on the Street: A Walk Down Broadway Boulevard
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After Summer Streets wrapped up last Saturday, I headed over to Times Square to check out the progress on DOT’s "Broadway Boulevard" project. The new street geometry and surfacing are mostly in place, while plantings and furniture have yet to arrive. The bike lane was also fully functional, making this pedicab ride across 41st Street […]
Eyes on the Street: Summer Streets Gallery #2
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Welcome to the second installment of our Summer Streets photo tour. This pic comes courtesy of BicyclesOnly, who says Park Avenue South is "one of the more dangerous roadways to bicycle on in Manhattan. Without the cars, it’s a playground for these two." More pics after the jump…
Eyes on the Street: Summer Streets Gallery #1
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Reader Jen Petersen sends this shot of the intersection of Lafayette and Spring on Saturday, along with her observations of how pedestrians, cyclists, and everyone else shared the road during Summer Streets: In the absence of special pavement markings delineating lanes for walkers, runners, cyclists, rollerbladers/skaters, people with children (and strollers), and others, we had […]
Eyes on the Street: 34th Street Runs Red With Paint
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Streetsblog’s Brad Aaron — on vacation in exotic, uh, Midtown — sends this pic of a newly-striped 34th Street bus lane, looking east from Eighth Avenue. Red lanes on each side of 34th are part of the first phase of improvements to what is intended to become the city’s first "transitway." Another witness says the […]
Eyes on the Street: Countdown to August 9
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A tipster sends this shot, snapped at the bicycle shelter on Broadway and 17th Street. The first Summer Streets Saturday is 10 days away. Have you seen the promo?