Recent Streetsblog NYC posts about Bike Lanes

New Bike Markings For Brooklyn’s Fifth Ave. This Month

By Aaron Naparstek | Nov 3, 2006 | 6 Comments

Word has come down that DOT is now aiming to install its new Class III Shared Lane bicycle stencils on Brooklyn’s Fifth Avenue before the end of November. The markings are an interesting innovation for New York City in that they direct motorists and cyclists to share the middle of the road as equals. Drivers aren’t supposed to blast […]

New Bike Markings on the Upper West Side

By Aaron Naparstek | Oct 11, 2006 | 6 Comments

It looks like the City’s promise to build out the bike network is already bearing fruit. Streetsblog reader Alex Kahl sends along these photos of new bike lane markings being striped on W. 77th and W. 78th Street near Columbus Avenue. Unlike the new, Class III, "shared lane" markings spotted yesterday in the middle of […]

New “Shared Lane” Bike Route Design Spotted in Manhattan

By Aaron Naparstek | Oct 10, 2006 | 12 Comments

New York City’s Department of Transportation is quietly experimenting with a new design for Class III bike routes on Manhattan’s Lower East Side. Streetsblog tipster Jason Varone photographed the new, not-yet-finished bike stencils on Clinton Street between Grand and Delancey this morning. Often referred to as "shared lanes," Class III routes are put down in places […]

Would you pay a Half Dollar to Bike Across the GWB?

By Aaron Naparstek | Oct 10, 2006 | 10 Comments

An outraged reader points us to Benepe’s Bike Blog where journalist, cyclist (and sister of New York City’s Parks Commissioner) Jennifer Benepe has been working to improve bicycle access to the George Washington Bridge. In a letter to the Port Authority Benepe suggests that cyclists would be happy to pay a fifty cent toll to cross the […]

Job Opening

By Aaron Naparstek | Oct 6, 2006 | No Comments

The Department of Transportation’s Bicycle Group is hiring. Know anyone good for the job? The New York City Department of Transportation is embarking on an aggressive campaign to expand the City’s on-street network of bicycle lanes and routes to facilitate the use of bicycles as an emission-free mode of transportation. Over the next three years, […]

Beyond Thermoplast, Street Signs and Signal Timing

By Aaron Naparstek | Sep 26, 2006 | 21 Comments

Last week we asked the Department of Transportation why the agency had not followed through on making safety improvements on the Fifth Avenue bike lane in Brooklyn by end-of-summer. DOT responded with a statement saying that "Share the Road" signs had, in fact, been installed and that, as part of the new citywide bike safety […]

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