Recent Streetsblog NYC posts about Bike/Ped

DOT's redesign of the 79th Street rotunda omits protection for people attempting to access the country's most popular bike path. Image: DOT

Manhattan Board Rejects DOT Rotunda Plan

By Eve Kessler | Jun 5, 2019 | 4 Comments

The Department of Transportation must go back to the drawing board with its controversial $200-million redesign of the 79th Street rotunda because the current proposal remains unsafe for cyclists, a Manhattan community board voted on Tuesday night. Community Board 7 resolved Tuesday night to “disapprove” of DOT’s plan for the Robert Moses-built, 70-year-old structure that […]

Construction firms must now create a safe, alternative route for cyclists if they block a bike lane — or have their permit revoked. Photo: Gersh Kuntzman

Construction Firms Must Create Safe Detour For Cyclists — Or Have Their Permits Revoked

By Julianne Cuba | May 29, 2019 | 10 Comments

Manhattan Council Member Carlina Rivera's bill would require construction companies to provide safe detours for cyclists, instead of spitting them out into lanes of speeding traffic.

The Bayonne Bridge (through a chain-link fence). Photo: Vince DiMiceli

Bayonne Bridge Bike-Ped Path Opens — With No Safe Way to Get There

By David Meyer | May 24, 2019 | 12 Comments

The Goethals Bridge pathway, meanwhile, is set to open "in the coming weeks" — once the Port Authority and DOT figure out a safe route for cyclists.

Rogue Riders Hit Bayonne Bridge — Before it Opens to Public

By Vince DiMiceli | May 23, 2019 | 5 Comments

Cyclists are sick and tired of long-delayed project.

In recent years, Hudson River Greenway users have been forced to dismount their bikes during Fleet Week. But That may change.

Cyclists Deserve Their Own Lane During Fleet Week, Like They Had in 2003

By Julianne Cuba | May 23, 2019 | 13 Comments

It’s simple: close a lane of car travel on the West Side Highway.

If roads were designed for people instead of for cars, the issue of "distracted pedestrians" would not even exist. Photo: Duncan Harris

Whew! Sen. John Liu’s Bill to Criminalize Walking Is Likely DOA

By Julianne Cuba | May 20, 2019 | 38 Comments

An upstate lawmaker appears ready to stop a bill that no real New Yorker would ever have introduced — Queens Senator John Liu's absurd bill to empower the NYPD to write tickets to "distracted" pedestrians.

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