Recent Streetsblog NYC posts about Bike Lanes

Jersey City’s Missing Bike Lanes Will Be Striped This Fall, City Promises

By Stephen Miller | Aug 15, 2013 | 8 Comments

Although Hoboken has taken the lead on implementing New Jersey’s best bike infrastructure, Jersey City looked like it was poised to catch up to its northern neighbor last year. Mayor Jerramiah Healy laid out a plan to bring bike lanes and sharrows to his city’s streets, but the plan stagnated under his administration. Newly-elected Mayor […]

Eyes on the Street: A Complete Street on Columbus Avenue, Completed

By Stephen Miller | Aug 14, 2013 | 11 Comments

Foot-dragging from Community Board 7 meant it was split into two phases, but a protected bike lane, with pedestrian islands, is close to the finish line for Columbus Avenue between 110th and 70th Streets. The initial paint went down a couple weeks ago. This afternoon, DOT crews were installing the pedestrian islands and striping the […]

Anthony Weiner, Ready to Erase Bike Lanes, Won’t Be Cowed by “Jihadists”

By Stephen Miller | Aug 13, 2013 | 42 Comments

It may be news to the national audience of BuzzFeed, but Anthony Weiner once said he would hold ribbon cuttings on his first day in Gracie Mansion to rip out the city’s bike lanes. He now insists the expletive-laced promise was a joke, but he’s firm in his opinion that at least two of the […]

Eyes on the Street: Inaugural Ride on Co-Op City’s First Bike Lanes

By Stephen Miller | Aug 6, 2013 | 4 Comments

On Sunday, a group of about 30 cyclists, organized by the Bronx Activist Committee of Transportation Alternatives, rode on the Bronx’s newest bicycle lanes in Co-Op City. The lanes, which run on 222nd Street, Co-Op City Boulevard, and soon Bartow Avenue, provide connections within Co-Op City and to the Bronx River Greenway. “The bicycle lanes allow us to connect […]

Eyes on the Street: Brownsville Celebrates Its New Bike Lanes

By Stephen Miller | Jul 23, 2013 | 3 Comments

They may be just paint, but bike lanes and sharrows on New Lots Avenue, Pitkin Avenue, Mother Gaston Boulevard, Hendrix Street, and Schenck Avenue are the first step toward implementing a community-based plan for better bicycling in Brownsville. This morning, about 35 people took part in a celebratory ride of the neighborhood’s first bike lanes organized by the Brownsville Partnership. […]

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