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DOT’s Fear of Community Boards Leads to Bike Lane Gaps in Brooklyn

By Stephen Miller | Aug 24, 2015 | 27 Comments

Disjointed street design changes coming to Kingston Avenue and Brooklyn Avenue illustrate how DOT’s sheepish approach to bike lane implementation interferes with the development of a connected bike network. At Fulton Street in Bed-Stuy, these north-south routes connect with Tompkins Avenue and Throop Avenue, which both have bike lanes. But for years, the bike lanes didn’t extend south […]

Reappointed by Rosenthal, Dan Zweig Already Trashing Amsterdam Ave Plan

By Stephen Miller | Aug 17, 2015 | 14 Comments

Bike lane opponent Dan Zweig is at it again. The longtime Manhattan Community Board 7 transportation committee co-chair was quoted in a Post article trashing the Amsterdam Avenue bike lane before DOT even presents its design, set to be released in September or October. “There is very heavy traffic [on Amsterdam] and it is a truck […]

Developers Adding More Parking Than They’re Supposed To, Thanks to DCP

By Stephen Miller | Jul 24, 2015 | 2 Comments

For years, the City Planning Commission approved special permits that let developers in Hell’s Kitchen and Chelsea get around limits on parking construction in the Manhattan core. Recently, the city implemented a new formula that reformers hoped would curtail these permits. But Community Board 4, Council Member Corey Johnson, and Borough President Gale Brewer say the city’s math […]

Will CB 9 Take Its Cues From a Denny Farrell Rant Against a Safer Broadway?

By Stephen Miller | Jul 10, 2015 | 53 Comments

Council Member Mark Levine and the local precinct commander spoke in support of a traffic safety plan [PDF] for a deadly stretch of Broadway last night at a Manhattan Community Board 9 transportation committee meeting. Then Denny Farrell, chair of the New York State Assembly’s powerful ways and means committee, let loose with a nonsensical rant against the plan. The project […]

Tonight: Community Board 9 Weighs Fix for Dangerous Stretch of Broadway

By Stephen Miller | Jul 9, 2015 | 25 Comments

A street safety plan [PDF] for Broadway in West Harlem is going before the Manhattan Community Board 9 transportation committee tonight. The redesign is a road diet similar to other DOT projects that have reduced deaths and injuries, but CB 9 members also have a track record of opposing attempts to improve safety by removing car lanes. […]

All Eyes on DOT After CB 7 Endorses Amsterdam Ave Protected Bike Lane

By Stephen Miller | Jul 8, 2015 | 13 Comments

Will the third time be the charm? Manhattan Community Board 7 has overwhelmingly voted — again — to ask the city for a northbound protected bike lane as part of a redesign of Amsterdam Avenue on the Upper West Side. DOT will have to move forward on a redesign very soon to get a complement to the southbound protected bike lane on Columbus […]

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