Recent Streetsblog NYC posts about Community Boards

The DOT last year presented traffic and transportation workshops to the community board in Bay Ridge. A new bill would create deadlines for the community board consultations. Photo: Toby Hyde

OPINION: Reform Community Board Consultations on Bike Lanes Now

By Billy Freeland | Dec 29, 2021 | No Comments

The City Council should pass, and Mayor Adams should sign, the Reynoso bill — stat!

Locals are not happy with DOT's plans for a redesign of 21st Street in Astoria. Photo: NYC DOT

Advocates: DOT’s 21st Street Redesign Caters to Drivers and Parking

By Julianne Cuba | Dec 21, 2021 | No Comments

DOT's plan for a dedicated curbside bus lane won't remove any parking spots, which discriminates against straphangers and pedestrians on behalf of car drivers on a deadly strip, critics said.

A Round and a Roundy: How DOT Spends its Limited Resources

By Streetsblog | Dec 6, 2021 | No Comments

Why doesn't the city have the resources to do the job right? Our national treasure cartoonist has one theory: the resources are being wasted.

DOT Punts Long-Delayed Fifth Avenue Project to Next Mayor

By Julianne Cuba | Oct 20, 2021 | No Comments

A busway and a protected bike lane are on hold until after the holidays. Is the city taking its cues from the New York Post?

The real target of CB7's wrath. File photo: Wilfred Chan

Friday’s Headlines: Will the UWS Secede from NYS?

By Streetsblog | Sep 10, 2021 | No Comments

It's a reasonable question, given that last night, the Upper West Side's Jekyll-and-Hyde community board voted to ban electric bikes in bike lanes — even though they are legal under state law. Plus all the other news.

Watered Down Fifth Avenue ‘Busway’ Inches Forward

By Julianne Cuba | Aug 24, 2021 | No Comments

Community Board 5 supports "busway lite."

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