Recent Streetsblog NYC posts about Protected Bike Lanes

DOT recently made safety improvements on the Grand Concourse below 158th Street, including this closed-off slip lane outside Cardinal Hayes High School, but bike lanes were not included. Image: DOT

DOT: Protected Bike Lanes Coming to Grand Concourse Below 161st Street, Eventually

By David Meyer | May 16, 2018 | 6 Comments

The agency says a future capital project will add protected bike lanes on the Concourse between 138th Street and 161, but there is no funding or timetable attached yet.

Inwood resident Phil Betheil takes the mic to speak up for the Dyckman Street bikeway. Photo: Laura Shepard

DOT Doesn’t Plan to Rip Out the Dyckman Street Protected Bike Lanes — For Now

By Laura Shepard | May 9, 2018 | 49 Comments

Project supporters outnumbered critics at last night's CB 12 hearing, but Gale Brewer, Adriano Espaillat, and Marisol Alcantara sent surrogates to attack Dyckman's new design and call for its removal.

DOT might trim Dyckman Street’s narrow bike lanes to make room for drivers to double-park. Seriously. Photo: Brad Aaron

Is DOT Ready to Address Dyckman Street’s Parking Management Problem?

By Brad Aaron | May 2, 2018 | 14 Comments

It should go without saying that smarter parking meter rates can reduce traffic dysfunction on Dyckman. Instead, DOT might narrow the street's new bike lanes to carve out more space for people to park illegally.

The redesigned Dyckman has made crossing the street safer. Photo: Brad Aaron

Will the Dyckman Street Redesign Survive the CB 12 Gauntlet?

By Brad Aaron | Apr 25, 2018 | 9 Comments

Community Board 12 has scheduled a series of meetings on Dyckman “traffic calming issues.” According to the board, DOT will participate.

Missing from the Sixth Avenue entrance of soon-to-be-car-free Central Park: safe space for biking. Photo: Google Maps

With Central Park Car-Free, There’s One Less Excuse Not to Extend the 6th Ave Protected Bike Lane

By David Meyer | Apr 24, 2018 | 18 Comments

Car traffic will shift away from Sixth Avenue, opening up room to extend the protected bike lane that currently ends at 33rd Street.

Gale Brewer and Adriano Espaillat are calling on DOT to rip out protected bike lanes on Dyckman Street, which would undo a major street safety project that took a decade of citizen advocacy.

Bikelash Rehash With Gale Brewer and Adriano Espaillat

By Ben Fried | Apr 19, 2018 | 41 Comments

Justifying their campaign to rip out the Dyckman Street bike lanes, Brewer and Espaillat recycle the same litany of objections that surface whenever a bikeway debuts in New York City.

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