Eyes on the Street: Seen Better Days
East 146th Street and St. Ann’s Avenue, May 28, 2007.
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In the Works: Safer South Bronx Bike Connections to Randall’s Island
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DOT crews are building out two protected bike lane routes linking the neighborhoods north of the Bruckner Expressway to the island.
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 […]
Eyes on the Street: A Special Lane for Parking Cars
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This was the scene along the Edward L. Grant Highway in the Bronx on May 27, where the southbound buffered bike lane near Jerome Avenue was being blocked by SUVs from Florida and New Jersey and assorted other vehicles. The bike lane markings here are worn out by the constant wear and tear of automobile […]
Eyes on the Street: Above the Cross Bronx ‘Expressway’
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Saturday, July 29, 2006, at the Jesup Avenue bridge over the Cross Bronx "Expressway." I called 311 to get the city to tow that abandoned car away, but the operator needed an address or an intersection to locate this vehicle. An address would be a stretch, and the computer didn’t accept "Jesup Avenue and the Cross Bronx ‘Expressway’" as a […]
Eyes on the Street: Finally, Crosswalks on Katonah Avenue
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A few weeks ago, a reader sent in a picture of an intersection on Katonah Avenue in the Bronx, which DOT repaved and striped with a double-yellow line — but not crosswalks. For more than six weeks, residents crossed this neighborhood artery without painted markings, which had parents at P.S. 19 especially worried. Our tipster […]
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.