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Eyes on the Street: Randall’s Island Connector to Open in “Coming Weeks”
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The Randall’s Island Connector, a greenway link between the South Bronx and Randall’s Island, is almost complete. Bronxites are anticipating a ribbon-cutting any day now from the city’s Economic Development Corporation, which is building the project. The new path crosses the Bronx Kill, a narrow waterway separating Randall’s Island from the Bronx. Without it, the only way to bike or walk […]
Eyes on the Street: Bus Lanes Are Coming to Webster Avenue
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The Bronx is set to receive its second Select Bus Service route along Webster Avenue and Melrose Avenue. Within a quarter-mile of the route, 61 percent of residents commute by transit, according to DOT, and nearly three-quarters of households are car-free. While buses won’t run in the center lanes — an alignment that Chicago is […]
New in 2016: Safe Bike Connections Linking East Harlem and the Bronx
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Biking from the Bronx to Manhattan via the Willis Avenue Bridge used to present a dilemma -- you could go the safe route or the legal route, but not both. A DOT project solved the problem by turning the informal bike route into a safe, official path.
Eyes on the Street: Grim, Immovable
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The BQE, as seen from Lorimer Street. All this talk about Robert Moses lately leads one to think about the Freeway Revolt.
Eyes on the Street: Cycle Track Construction Porn
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There’s a lot of protected bike infrastructure in various stages of completion right now, and I had the chance to take some pictures on the way to the office today. Above is a trench for part of the Sands Street bike path, the long-awaited Manhattan Bridge approach in Brooklyn that was originally slated to start […]