Recent Streetsblog NYC posts about Bike Lanes

Jan Gehl: Gridlocked Streets Are “Not a Law of Nature”

By Brad Aaron | Nov 7, 2007 | 8 Comments

It could have been just another gathering of urban idealists, agreeing with each other about how great it would be to have more public space for people, and less for cars. Except last night’s NYC Streets Renaissance event, "A New Vision for the Upper West Side," featured renowned Danish planner Jan Gehl — who, as […]

Shared Space on the Brooklyn Bridge

By Alex Marshall | Nov 7, 2007 | 71 Comments

I’d bet that people walking outnumber people bicycling across the Brooklyn Bridge by at least 100 to one. I cycle across the wooden-slatted walkway that soars over the top of the bridge regularly now, and every time I do so I think about this. My rolling bicycle negates the space for scores of people every […]

RSVP Today to Re-Imagine Manhattan’s Upper West Side

By Aaron Naparstek | Oct 31, 2007 | 2 Comments

Help shape the neighborhood streets of the Upper West Side. Work with your neighbors to create beautiful, green streets with safer bike lanes, great walking spaces, less traffic and cleaner air. The Upper West Side Streets Renaissance Campaign is holding a series of events aimed at empowering residents to re-imagine neighborhood streets and make their […]

Jan Gehl: Half of Manhattan Trips Could be Done by Bike

By Aaron Naparstek | Oct 31, 2007 | 1 Comment

If you haven’t heard it already, WNYC’s Arun Venugopal has an outstanding piece on New York City’s rapidly changing transportation policies regarding bicycling. We hear from T.A.’s Noah Budnick, Copenhagen’s Jan Gehl, DOT Commissioner Janette Sadik-Khan, NYPD Chief Ray Kelly, Judy Ross of Times Up, and a moron in a huge SUV. Click here or […]

New Bike Lanes and Sharrows Lead to the Brooklyn Bridge

By Jason Varone | Oct 30, 2007 | 36 Comments

This new buffered bike lane begins at Petrosino Square at Lafayette Street and Spring Street and heads southbound all the way down to Duane Street on the way to the Brooklyn Bridge. Along the way you’ll find quite a few bike boxes and sharrows, new bike safety tools in the Department of Transportation street design […]

Cabbie Mistakes East River Park Bike Path for Highway

By Jason Varone | Oct 18, 2007 | 19 Comments

The marker to the south is where the speeding taxi passed the cyclist. The marker to the north is where the cyclist gave up trying to chase after him. A tipster sends along this story from the East River Park bike path… Yesterday around 6:15PM, my friend and I were biking home from work through […]

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