Recent Streetsblog NYC posts about Bike Lanes

Bushwick Residents to DOT: More Bike Lanes, Please

By Stephen Miller | Feb 20, 2015 | 12 Comments

Dozens of Bushwick residents came out in the cold last night to suggest where to add bike lanes to their neighborhood. Currently Bushwick only has a pair of painted bike lanes on Central Avenue and Evergreen Avenue, plus some sharrows linking to bike lanes in Bed-Stuy. “There was a good turnout from long-time residents, from […]

CB 3 Committee Asks DOT for Protected Bikeway on Chrystie Street

By Stephen Miller | Feb 13, 2015 | 33 Comments

The community board covering the Lower East Side and Chinatown is set to ask DOT to transform the Chrystie Street bike lane from barely visible stripes blocked by double-parked cars into a two-way protected bikeway along Sara D. Roosevelt Park, connecting the Manhattan Bridge with the Second Avenue protected bike lane. The transportation committee of […]

New Columbus Avenue Design: Protected Bike Lane By David H. Koch Theater

By Ben Fried | Feb 12, 2015 | 15 Comments

The Columbus Avenue bike lane will provide a more continuous protected route past Lincoln Center under a revised DOT proposal that got a thumbs up from Manhattan Community Board 7’s transportation committee Tuesday night [PDF]. Currently, there is no physical protection for people biking between 69th Street and 59th Street. An earlier version of the […]

DUMBO Street Upgrades: Big Curb Expansions + Contraflow Bike Lane

By Stephen Miller | Jan 28, 2015 | 13 Comments

DUMBO, where NYC DOT launched its public plaza program more than seven years ago, is set to get more pedestrian space as the city expands sidewalks and reworks oddly-shaped intersections beneath the Manhattan Bridge. The project also includes a contraflow bike lane to improve connections from DUMBO to the Manhattan Bridge, Jay Street, and Downtown […]

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Vote to Decide the Best Urban Street Transformation of 2014

By Angie Schmitt | Dec 17, 2014 | No Comments

If you’re searching for reasons to feel positive about the future, the street transformations pictured below are a good start. Earlier this month we asked readers to send in their nominations for the best American street redesigns of 2014. These five are the finalists selected by Streetsblog staff. They include new car-free zones, substantial sidewalk […]

Pulaski Bridge Bike Path Now Scheduled to Open by End of 2015

By Stephen Miller | Dec 11, 2014 | 16 Comments

About a year behind schedule, a major project to improve walking and biking between Queens and Brooklyn is set to move forward in 2015. The project, originally scheduled to be complete this year, will convert one southbound car lane on the Pulaski Bridge into a protected bike lane, giving more breathing room to pedestrians on what […]

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