Recent Streetsblog NYC posts about Bicycle Infrastructure

Memphis Turns Two Highway Lanes Into a Car-Free Oasis By the Mississippi

By Michael Andersen | Jun 17, 2014 | 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. Once you start thinking about new ways to use your city’s streets, you start to see opportunities everywhere. That’s exactly what’s happened last weekend in Memphis, Tennessee, where half of a separated […]

Slow Zone, Next Round of Bike Routes on Tap for Brownsville, East New York

By Stephen Miller | Jun 11, 2014 | 10 Comments

The fledgling bike lane network in Brownsville and East New York will continue to grow. The second of three rounds of painted on-street bike lanes — mapped out in a planning process initiated by neighborhood residents — is set to be installed by the end of the year, pending the support of Community Boards 5 […]

New Bronx River Greenway Link Would Remake Asphalt Expanse

By Stephen Miller | Jun 9, 2014 | 4 Comments

After years of inter-agency wrangling, a wide-open intersection in the Bronx is set for a complete redesign that will include a new link in the Bronx River Greenway. The city presented a preliminary design [PDF] to Community Board 6’s transportation committee last Thursday. While the plan is a big step forward, it lacks a crosswalk that would […]

How Would You Make the Five Boroughs Bikeable for More New Yorkers?

By Stephen Miller | May 16, 2014 | 103 Comments

Bike to Work Day is as good a day as any to take stock of how much work remains for New York to become a truly safe place to ride a bike, where everyone who wants to get places by bicycle can feel comfortable doing so. The League of American Bicyclists said on Wednesday that […]

Imagining a New Atlantic Avenue for de Blasio’s New York

By John Petro | May 1, 2014 | 6 Comments

Atlantic Avenue is one of New York’s most prominent streets, and in most respects, it is completely broken. Stretching more than ten miles, Atlantic cuts through several neighborhoods in Brooklyn and Queens while functioning mainly as an urban highway for private motorists and truckers making their way east, toward the Van Wyck and Long Island, or […]

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California Endorses the NACTO Urban Street Design Guide

By Melanie Curry | Apr 11, 2014 | No Comments

It wasn’t a total surprise, but exciting nevertheless for bicycle advocates gathered at the NACTO “Cities for Cycling” Road Show in Oakland last night. Caltrans Director Malcolm Dougherty announced that the agency will endorse the use of the National Association of City Transportation Officials Urban Street Design Guide, giving California cities the state DOT’s blessing to install modern […]

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