Recent Streetsblog NYC posts about Bicycle Safety

Eyes on the Street: Clinton Street’s New Bikeway

By Stephen Miller | Aug 25, 2015 | 10 Comments

A new two-way bikeway is under construction to provide a connection between the Williamsburg Bridge and the East River Greenway. The route along Clinton Street extends the existing two-way protected bike lane between Delancey and Grand an additional five blocks to South Street, where it connects to the waterfront bike path beneath the FDR Drive. The waterfront greenway, which […]

Construction Begins on First Phase of Transforming Queens Blvd

By Stephen Miller | Jul 23, 2015 | 1 Comment

The redesign of Queens Boulevard, long one of New York’s most notorious death traps, is underway. “Queens Boulevard is tragically legendary. We all became used to the phrase ‘the Boulevard of Death,’” Mayor Bill de Blasio said at a press conference this morning marking the start of construction. “That is a phrase we want to banish from the […]

DOT Opens Greenpoint Ave Bridge Bike Lanes — Now With Flex-Posts

By Stephen Miller | Jul 2, 2015 | 24 Comments

DOT staff led a celebratory ride on the Greenpoint Avenue Bridge over Newtown Creek this morning to mark the completion of new bike lanes between Brooklyn and Queens. The lanes provide safer passage on what had been a nerve-wracking crossing next to fast-moving traffic and lots of trucks. The project was first proposed in 2010 and revived earlier […]

Ferreras: “My Focus Is to Make 111th Street One Hundred Percent Safe”

By Stephen Miller | Jul 1, 2015 | 8 Comments

A grassroots effort to improve safety on extra-wide 111th Street in Corona yielded a DOT plan for a road diet, better pedestrian crossings, and a protected bike lane this spring. Then two members of Queens Community Board 4 stymied the proposal, at least for the time being. To keep the project moving forward, Council Member Julissa Ferreras has organized two neighborhood […]

De Blasio Signs Bill Requiring Side Guards on 10,000 Trucks by 2024

By Stephen Miller | Jun 17, 2015 | 2 Comments

Mayor Bill de Blasio signed a bill yesterday requiring side guards on all large city trucks, and on private garbage trucks operating in New York City, by 2024. When a truck driver strikes someone with the side of the vehicle, the guards prevent people from getting crushed beneath the truck’s rear wheels. They have been proven to reduce deaths and […]

Want to Drive Thru Corona to the US Open? Francisco Moya’s Got Your Back

By Stephen Miller | Jun 5, 2015 | 7 Comments

Assembly Member Francisco Moya opposes a DOT plan for safer walking and biking on 111th Street next to Flushing Meadows Corona Park. In a statement, he said it will slow down people driving through the neighborhood he represents on their way to professional baseball games and tennis tournaments. “111th Street is a high traffic road, which suffers from massive […]

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