Recent Streetsblog NYC posts about L Train Shutdown

The Regional Plan Association has mapped out a network of transitways as well as a bus service plan to handle passengers displaced by the L train shutdown. Image: RPA

Here’s the Plan to Keep Transit Riders Moving During the L Shutdown

By David Meyer | Nov 16, 2016 | No Comments

The Regional Plan Association has released a new plan to beef up bus and train service for L train riders who'll need robust transit once the western part of the line shuts down for Sandy-related repairs.

Scores of New Yorkers Turn Out to Reimagine 14th Street

By Brad Aaron | Nov 11, 2016 | 3 Comments

A capacity crowd of around 80 people gathered at a community center in Chelsea last night to brainstorm the future of 14th Street. The forum was the second 14th Street PeopleWay workshop, hosted by Transportation Alternatives, to help prepare for the crush of people who will need a new way to get around when the L train tube under the […]

TA Calls for Grand Street to Serve People, Not Cars, During L Shutdown

By David Meyer | Nov 2, 2016 | 6 Comments

Volunteers from Transportation Alternatives rallied on the Brooklyn side of the Williamsburg Bridge last night to call on the city to prioritize Grand Street for buses, bicycling, and walking when the MTA shuts down the western portion of the L train for 18 months to make Sandy-related repairs. Every day, New Yorkers make hundreds of thousands of trips on the […]

How to Keep Buses Moving on the 14th Street PeopleWay

By David Meyer | Sep 28, 2016 | 11 Comments

As the city and MTA consider how to move thousands of L train passengers across Manhattan when the subway line shuts down for Sandy-related repairs, momentum is growing for a 14th Street “PeopleWay” free of private motor vehicles. But with 10,000 passengers during the peak hour in the peak direction, prohibiting cars alone won’t prevent 14th Street […]

Let’s Get Real: Cars Are Not the Answer to the L Shutdown

By Brad Aaron | Sep 22, 2016 | 27 Comments

It doesn’t matter if it’s a regular car, and autonomous car, an Uber…there is no room on the streets. You’d need 56 lanes at rush hour. — Julia (((Kite))) (@juliakite) September 22, 2016 Today the Daily News published an op-ed from autonomous car consultants Levi Tillemann and Colin McCormick, who proposed that NYC rush to establish an […]

A Closer Look at How the L Train Shutdown Will Disrupt Transit Trips

By David Meyer | Sep 7, 2016 | 2 Comments

The 18-month shutdown of the L train between North Brooklyn and Eighth Avenue may be three years away, but officials still have to move quickly to help hundreds of thousands of L passengers get where they need to go. So far, city officials and the MTA have yet to provide much in the way of specifics. To get a better […]

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