Recent Streetsblog NYC posts about Bicycle Infrastructure

U.S. Awareness of Protected Bike Lanes Is Literally Growing Exponentially

By Michael Andersen | Jan 8, 2015 | No Comments

Michael Andersen blogs for The Green Lane Project, a PeopleForBikes program that helps U.S. cities build better bike lanes to create low-stress streets. As people in the protected bike lane movement start to get a handle on 2015, it’s worth pausing to look at the magnitude of 2014’s success. If any one chart can tell […]

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As Protected Bike Lane Design Evolves, New Lessons Emerge

By Michael Andersen | Jan 7, 2015 | No Comments

Michael Andersen blogs for The Green Lane Project, a PeopleForBikes program that helps U.S. cities build better bike lanes to create low-stress streets. Last year offered lots of case studies for those of us working to make the case for protected bike lanes. With the explosion of protected lanes in the United States, we have far more […]

DOT Lincoln Square Plan Leaves Cyclists Knotted in Dangerous Bowtie Traffic

By Stephen Miller | Dec 10, 2014 | 21 Comments

A DOT safety plan for streets near the Lincoln Square bowtie focuses mostly on pedestrians while leaving cyclists to mix it up with cars and trucks for five blocks near the complex crossing. The proposal, which includes expanded sidewalks, additional crosswalks, new turn restrictions, and a few bike lane upgrades, could be on the ground as soon as next […]

DOT: Seaman Avenue Bike Lanes Won’t Return This Year

By Brad Aaron | Nov 24, 2014 | 17 Comments

The asphalt is fresh, the yellow lines and crosswalks installed, but DOT won’t be returning bike lanes to Seaman Avenue until next year, according to the office of local City Council Member Ydanis Rodriguez. Seaman Avenue is the only designated north-south bike route between the Hudson River Greenway and the Bronx, and it’s the trunk […]

Eyes on the Street: When Will Inwood Get Its Scarce Bike Lanes Back?

By Brad Aaron | Nov 20, 2014 | 27 Comments

As Streetsblog readers know, Inwood is the Manhattan neighborhood where DOT periodically and without warning takes away bike infrastructure. So locals were pleased when in 2013 DOT announced a handful of modest bike projects for Inwood and Washington Heights, including Upper Manhattan’s first protected bike lane, and the rehabbing of bike lanes on Seaman Avenue, which […]

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More Evidence That Adding Bike Infrastructure Boosts Biking

By Angie Schmitt | Nov 13, 2014 | No Comments

If you build it, they will bike. That’s the upshot of a new study from researchers at University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill, examining the effect of bike infrastructure. Researchers charted bike commuting rates across the Minneapolis area, finding, not surprisingly, that the biggest increases happened near the biggest investments in safe, comfortable bike infrastructure. The research […]

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