Recent Streetsblog NYC posts about Bike Lanes

Is someone gonna do something this year or what? File photo: Gersh Kuntzman

State to City: The Time Has Come to Install the Addabbo Bridge Protected Bike Lane

By Dave Colon | Apr 14, 2023 | No Comments

The state Department Transportation has finished studying a bike lane on the Addabbo Bridge and now it's up to the city Department of Transportation to build it. The ball is officially in Ydanis Rodriguez.

Yes, we know this is not New York. Photo: CDC

Thursday’s Headlines: Unseasonably Warm Weather Edition

By David Meyer | Apr 13, 2023 | No Comments

Today's weather is freakishly hot. Plus other news.

A large crowd of tourists stands on the Brooklyn Bridge walkway under sunny blue skies in July.

RED TAPE: DOT Still Hasn’t Started Cable Study It Cited To Delay Brooklyn Bridge Bike Lane

By Dave Colon | Apr 13, 2023 | No Comments

The DOT admitted this week that the all-important, must-have, can't-do-anything-without-it cable study — mentioned in 2016, announced in 2017, supposed to start in 2019, and again in 2020 — never actually started.

This is the future. As the city seeks to hit a sustainable transportation mode share of 80 percent by 2050, it's testing out wider bike lanes that allow cyclists to pass one another. Photo: NYC DOT

Eyes on the Street: City Debuts ‘Double-Lane’ Protected Bike Lane on Four Blocks of Ninth Avenue

By David Meyer | Apr 7, 2023 | No Comments

City DOT crews laid down four blocks of "double-lane" protected bike lane on Ninth Avenue in Manhattan this week — debuting a "passing lane" design officials plan to rollout later this year at locations across the city.

Cops in NYC Ticket Only 2% of Blocked Bike Lanes: Analysis

By Benjamin Arnav | Apr 6, 2023 | No Comments

Don’t bother complaining to city about that car parked in the bike lane — the NYPD will probably toss your complaint into the bureaucratic waste-bin.

Manhattan Community Board 7 took up the issue of crosstown bike lanes on March 14.

OPINION: How An Upper West Side Community Meeting Changed My Mind About Bike Lanes

By Lauren DeFazio | Apr 4, 2023 | No Comments

A funny thing happened to me when I went to speak out against proposed crosstown bike lanes at my Upper West Side community board — I changed my mind.

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