Recent Streetsblog NYC posts about Transportation Alternatives

The Brooklyn Academy of Music at Ashland Place and Lafayette Avenue. Photo: Wally Gobetz via Flickr

New DOT Plan Would Let BAM Take Over Proposed Bike Lane During Events

By Julianne Cuba | Apr 21, 2023 | No Comments

The city on Thursday revealed a new design for Ashland Place that attempts to address the concerns of BAM officials — by letting the famed cultural institution park its trucks in the bike lane during "special loading events."

A cyclist's perspective of the supposed shared lane on Fourth Avenue during construction. Not much sharing going on. Photo: John Tomac

Thursday’s Headlines: Construction Zone Chaos Edition

By David Meyer | Apr 20, 2023 | No Comments

Transportation Alternatives and Bike New York will rally (and ride) to "#Fix4thAve" on May. Plus other news.

Is someone gonna do something this year or what? File photo: Gersh Kuntzman

State to City: The Time Has Come to Install the Addabbo Bridge Protected Bike Lane

By Dave Colon | Apr 14, 2023 | No Comments

The state Department Transportation has finished studying a bike lane on the Addabbo Bridge and now it's up to the city Department of Transportation to build it. The ball is officially in Ydanis Rodriguez.

Council Speaker Adrienne Adams. Photo: Gerardo Romo / NYC Council Media Unit

Speaker Adams Still Won’t Come Out in Support of Sammy’s Law

By Julianne Cuba | Apr 12, 2023 | No Comments

Council Member Jennifer Gutiérrez (D-Williamsburg) introduced a resolution on Tuesday calling on the state legislature to pass Sammy’s Law — a resolution that is a first step in securing the required “home rule” message to be sent to Albany legislators.

Bedford Avenue between Atlantic Avenue and Flushing Avenue is basically a three-lane highway with a painted bike lane. Photo: David Meyer

Activists Want a Protected Bike Lane on an Unsafe Stretch of Bedford Avenue

By Dave Colon | Mar 22, 2023 | No Comments

The Department of Transportation must add a protected bike lane on the dangerous stretch of Bedford Avenue between Flushing and Flatbush avenues, a major north-south spine that spans multiple neighborhoods in Brooklyn, a group of advocates led by a Black-run bike club is demanding.

Back for more. Here's Gov. Hochul in 2022 before she signed the expansion of New York City's speed cameras. Now she hopes to let New York City reduce its speed limits. File photo: Darren McGee / Governor's office

State of the State: Hochul Seeks to Let New York City Lower its Speed Limits

By Gersh Kuntzman | Jan 10, 2023 | No Comments

Gov. Hochul has fully endorsed a state legislative effort to allow New York City to set — and reduce — its own speed limits, announcing in her State of the State address on Tuesday that she will introduce her own version of the existing "Sammy's Law" bill that the legislature has failed to pass previously.

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