Recent Streetsblog NYC posts about Bicycle Infrastructure

Tish James Calls on DOT to Make Bike Lanes Standard on Vision Zero Projects

By Ben Fried | Jul 28, 2015 | 5 Comments

Have you noticed that DOT street safety projects are leaving out bike lanes even when there’s plenty of room for them? So has Public Advocate Tish James. In a letter to Transportation Commissioner Polly Trottenberg last week, James called on DOT to make bike lanes a default feature of street redesigns, especially on wide arterial streets where […]

DOT Drops Buffer From Bronx Bike Lanes Under Vision Zero Safety Plan

By Stephen Miller | Jun 16, 2015 | 26 Comments

DOT is downgrading buffered bike lanes as part of a street safety project on 1.3 miles of Prospect Avenue in the Bronx, a Vision Zero priority corridor. While the street appears to have enough room for protected bike lanes while maintaining the current motor vehicle lanes, DOT instead opted to narrow the bike lanes, remove the […]

Upper Manhattan’s First Protected Bike Lane Goes Green [Updated]

By Brad Aaron | Jun 1, 2015 | 6 Comments

Update: The Manhattan Community Board 12 transportation committee will consider an agenda item tonight that would call on DOT to remove the Fort George Hill bike lane. Yes, really. The meeting will be held at the Isabella Geriatric Center, 515 Audobon Avenue, at 7 p.m. Here are more photos from reader Jonathan Rabinowitz of Upper […]

The Case for Baking Bike Infrastructure Into Vision Zero Projects

By Stephen Miller | May 21, 2015 | 12 Comments

London is surging ahead with big plans for protected bikeways that span the city. By comparison, New York’s bike plans, while moving forward incrementally, feel piecemeal. Has safe cycling infrastructure become an afterthought in the city’s Vision Zero program? The question came up yesterday during a seminar on cycling policy hosted simultaneously in the two cities, organized […]

Better Protection Slated for Vernon Boulevard Bike Lane, Tweets DOT

By Brad Aaron | Apr 24, 2015 | 8 Comments

Vernon Blvd in Queens needs #bikenyc barrier protection! This is ridiculous! @transalt @StreetsblogNYC @NYC_DOT pic.twitter.com/3PEuyxGgOm — Clarence Eckerson Jr (@PurpleClarence) April 21, 2015 On Tuesday, Clarence tweeted several photos of cars, including what looked like out-of-service cabs, parked in the Vernon Boulevard bikeway. “Vernon Boulevard needs barrier protection,” Clarence wrote. “This is ridiculous!” A few […]

Eyes on the Street: Upper Manhattan’s First Protected Bike Lane in Progress

By Brad Aaron | Apr 13, 2015 | 22 Comments

Reader Jonathan Rabinowitz sent this photo of Upper Manhattan’s first protected bike lane, now under construction on Fort George Hill, a one-way street that connects Dyckman Street in Inwood with Fairview Avenue to the south, along the western border of Harlem River Park. This project will give cyclists a north-south route between Inwood and Washington Heights by allotting 11 feet of […]

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