Eyes on the Street: Protected Dumpster Lane
As spotted on Eighth Avenue near 14th Street on Tuesday.
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Eyes on the Street: Filling the Gap in the Second Avenue Protected Bike Lane
By Stephen Miller |
Two months after a presentation to Manhattan Community Board 6’s transportation committee, and less than one month after the full board voted to support the plan, DOT crews were on Second Avenue today painting new stripes to convert the buffered bike lane in Kips Bay to the parking-protected variety. Between 23rd and 14th Streets, Second Avenue […]
Eyes on the Street: A Buffer for (Some of) the Sixth Avenue Bike Lane
By Stephen Miller |
Parts of the notoriously skinny Sixth Avenue bike lane are about to get slightly less cramped. DOT is narrowing the car lanes on the newly-repaved avenue to make room for buffers on the bike lane from Christopher Street to W. 14th Street. While the buffers are a welcome upgrade, they’re no long-term fix for one of the city’s most intimidating […]
Eyes on the Street: Bike Traffic on Eighth = Rolling Goldmine
By Ben Fried |
Thanks to BicyclesOnly for posting this shot from yesterday morning’s commute to the Streetsblog Flickr pool. By my count, we’ve got six people riding bikes here on a one-and-a-half block stretch of the Eighth Avenue protected path, with two or three others farther back, in the shade. As far as I can tell, everyone is […]
DOT Replaces a Block of the Fifth Avenue Bike Lane With Sharrows
By Stephen Miller |
DOT’s recent design tweaks to Eighth Street have come with an unwelcome change on Fifth Avenue. As the Fifth Avenue bike lane approaches Eighth Street, it now morphs into sharrows that overlap with a turning lane for motorists. The dedicated space for cycling is gone, and the new design is incompatible with the protected bike lane that advocates and […]
Eyes on the Street: Bike-Ped Improvements on 6 1/2 and Eighth Avenues
By Noah Kazis |
Safer streets are taking shape in Midtown, with work underway to create new paths through the heart of the city for pedestrians and cyclists alike. Crosswalks and street signs are in place for one of the Department of Transportation’s most original projects, a pedestrian thoroughfare designated as 6 1/2 Avenue. Thanks to a 1980s zoning provision, a […]
Eyes on the Street: Concrete Progress on Eighth Ave Protected Bike Lane
By Ben Fried |
Doug Gordon of Brooklyn Spoke fame sends these shots of another milestone in the extension of the Eighth Avenue protected bike lane: The pedestrian islands are going in. These pools of pure unspoiled concrete were spied at the intersection of 35th Street. Watching this NYC DOT safety project take shape in the heart of Midtown, a favorite […]