Manhattan Community Board 2 Meeting on SoHo Bike Lanes
Livable streets advocates are needed to speak up against arguments by motorists who will complain about parking space loss required to stripe bike lanes on Prince and Bleecker Streets in SoHo.
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DOT Rolls Out the New Lower Manhattan Crosstown Bike Route
By Aaron Naparstek |
The street re-surfacing men and machinery were out in force in Soho last night. Houston Street Bike Safety Initiative Director Ian Dutton snapped this photo on Prince Street. Once the street is repaved, the Department of Transportation will stripe the hotly debated Prince and Bleecker Street bike lanes. Lower Manhattan’s newest east-west bike route is […]
SoHo Car Owners Mobilizing to Save Parking, Fight Bike Lanes
By Aaron Naparstek |
The SoHo Alliance is at it again. The neighborhood organization that specializes in persecuting street vendors and artists rather than helping to figure out ways to carve out a bit of street space for them and all of the people over-spilling SoHo’s sidewalks, is now mobilizing against the City’s plan to install new bike lanes […]
Sean Sweeney: Soho Must Be Preserved for SUVs
By Ben Fried |
Sean Sweeney, the one-man show known as the Soho Alliance, has been sending this video around to the media, continuing his quest to preserve Soho streets for the convenience of motorists. What we basically have here is a careless truck driver butting grilles with a sociopath behind the wheel of an SUV. Sweeney’s conclusion: Give […]
Eyes on the Street: Lafayette Street Gets Its Bike Lane Back
By David Meyer |
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 […]
Bay Ridge CB Overwhelmingly Backs Bike Lanes, Pedestrian Safety Fixes
By Stephen Miller |
Bike lanes and pedestrian safety improvements are coming to Bay Ridge after a pair of votes at Brooklyn Community Board 10 last week. It’s a turnaround from just a few years ago, when the board gained a reputation as one of the most anti-bike in the city. After voting down a 2011 DOT proposal to add bike […]
Streetfilms: Good Riddance to Wasted Asphalt
By Brad Aaron |
Before Streetfilms were called Streetfilms, Clarence Eckerson and Streetsblog Publisher Mark Gorton identified Grand Street, with its expanse of asphalt forcing pedestrians to the margins, as a prime spot for space reclamation. Now home to a conniption-inducing parking-protected bike lane, check out this 2005 vid to see why Grand was due for a livable streets […]