Recent Streetsblog NYC posts about Bike Lanes

Gerson on Grand Street Safety: Never Mind the Facts

By Ben Fried | Aug 21, 2009 | 19 Comments

City Council member Alan Gerson didn’t have much new to say at his sidewalk protest of the Grand Street bike lane. But a handful of reporters and a few cyclists pressed him to defend the idea that projects designed to improve street safety should be subject to greater City Council review. Gerson’s assertion of "dangerous […]

District 1 Council Candidates: Safer Streets? Less Traffic? No Thanks.

By Ben Fried | Aug 18, 2009 | 9 Comments

Reader Ian Dutton sends this dispatch from last night’s candidate debate for the District 1 City Council seat representing Lower Manhattan, organized by the Downtown Express and the Villager. If you’re a District 1 resident who values safer streets and a well-funded transit system, tough luck. Last night at the Council District 1 candidates debate, […]

Bill Thompson, Business Owners Decry Phantom Bike Lane

By Brad Aaron | Aug 12, 2009 | 26 Comments

Greenwich Avenue: Plenty of commerce-loving cyclists, no bike lane. At a recent campaign stop in Greenwich Village, city comptroller and mayoral candidate William Thompson got an earful from local merchants about the hardships of running a small business. While Tea & Sympathy owner Sean Kavanagh-Dowsett calling Chris Quinn "a whore," and Thompson’s reaction, made headlines […]

BYO Bike Lanes Coming Soon

By Brad Aaron | Aug 6, 2009 | 15 Comments

Via Gizmodo: A laser device that allows cyclists to project their own bike lanes has gone from cool idea to prototype. Positive reponse to the concept from Alex Tee and Evan Gant of Altitude Inc. was significant enough to put LightLane into production. See the beta version in action above. Thoughts?

Ask and Ye Shall Receive: Brooklyn CB9 Gets a Bike Lane on Empire Blvd

By Ben Fried | Jul 1, 2009 | 19 Comments

DOT added bike lanes to its traffic-calming project for Empire Boulevard — at the request of CB9. Image: NYCDOT. These days, it’s not often that we get to report about New York City community boards pushing DOT for more progressive street designs. So sit back and enjoy this post. If you read Streetsblog regularly, it’ll […]

DOT Responds to Park Slope Bike Lane Uprising With Thermoplast Surge

By Aaron Naparstek | Jun 23, 2009 | 4 Comments

DOT contractors are putting down new bike lane markings on Park Slope’s Fifth Avenue this afternoon. In addition to refurbishing the original bike lane laid down in 2004 and the sharrows installed in 2006, the crews are adding reinforcements, like the chevron markings through the intersections pictured below. It would be entirely fitting if these […]

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