Recent Streetsblog NYC posts about Bike Lanes

34th Street Partnership Explains the Icey Snow in the Bike Lane

By Aaron Naparstek | Feb 21, 2007 | 4 Comments

On Tuesday we posted an "Eyes on the Street" item looking at the sorry, snowed-in condition of the bike lane running through Herald Square. Seth Taylor at the 34th Street Partnership sends along the photo above and explains: The 34th Street Partnership apologizes for the inconvenience caused to cyclists by the closure of the Herald […]

Quick, Someone Get Me a Shovel

By Biker H | Feb 20, 2007 | 8 Comments

Last week, we saw the sorry condition of the new on-street bike route in Times Square and thought to ourselves how much better things would be if only bikes had some truly protected turf in the Crossroads of the World. Alas, just a half-mile south, our idealistic thoughts were quashed by this depressing visage: Here […]

The Case of the Disappearing Sharrows

By Biker H | Feb 13, 2007 | 5 Comments

Less than three months after they appeared on Seventh Avenue in Times Square, some of New York City’s first sharrows are well on their way to disappearing. And so you have to wonder: Can the city’s commitment to 200 miles of new bike lanes in three years be meaningful if this is their condition […]

Calming Traffic in Chinatown

By Aaron Donovan | Feb 1, 2007 | 20 Comments

With all the talk about high level personnel changes at the DOT, let’s take it back to the streets for a minute, shall we? As we have already noted, Chinatown has gotten a buffered bike lane on Grand Street, which is fantastic, and would be even more fantastic if it wasn’t treated as a car parking lane. […]

New Places to Double Park on Upper West Side

By Biker H | Dec 20, 2006 | 14 Comments

Staying on the cars-parked-in-bike-lanes theme… Bike lanes are popping up faster than you can say "community involvement" these days, like on West 90th and 91st Streets, where the final stripes have yet to be laid. (Shown above: West 90th between Columbus and Central Park West.) I like: The lanes connect Riverside Drive and Central Park […]

Tillary Street: Bike Lane or Parking Space?

By Aaron Naparstek | Dec 7, 2006 | 20 Comments

Guess what Transportation Alternatives’ Brooke DuBose and Streetfilms’ Clarence Eckerson found in Downtown Brooklyn’s physically-separated bike lane on Tillary Street this morning? Cars and trucks, of course. Four of them driving, parking or unloading in the "protected" bike lane in just ten minutes of filming. Streetsbloggers who have been debating bike lane design and enjoying Bollard Porn, will appreciate Clarence’s […]

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