Recent Streetsblog NYC posts about FDNY

Citing FDNY Concerns, DOT Removes Two-Block Protected Bike Connection

By Brad Aaron | | 97 Comments
DOT has erased a short contraflow protected bikeway that linked the Highbridge neighborhood to the car-free High Bridge in response to FDNY concerns about the movement of emergency vehicles. The project was part of a package of biking and walking improvements in the Bronx and Upper Manhattan implemented last year, timed to coincide with the re-opening of the High Bridge to the […]

FDNY: “We Haven’t Had Any Issues” With Bike-Share Locations

By Stephen Miller | | 18 Comments
Republican mayoral candidate Joseph Lhota, on WNYC’s Brian Lehrer Show yesterday, said that while he didn’t “know this for a fact,” he views the bike-share program as an example of failed agency coordination in the Bloomberg administration, because he’d read press reports that people were complaining about new bike-share stations potentially impeding emergency response. Despite […]