Recent Streetsblog NYC posts about Protected Bike Lanes

Instead of cyclists and turning drivers merging into the same space at intersections, the design prompts drivers to turn more carefully across the bike lane. Image: Reed Rubey

Manhattan CB 4 Asks DOT for Safer Intersections on Protected Bike Lanes

By David Meyer | Jul 20, 2017 | 10 Comments

Four Manhattan community boards have now endorsed advocates' concept for better-protected intersections.

The DOT project calls for six miles of protected bike lanes on Northern Boulevard and other streets near Joe Michaels Mile. Image: DOT

Queens Community Board 11 Got Up to Some Monkey Business Last Night

By David Meyer | Jul 18, 2017 | 72 Comments

One member of the board is dead-set against repurposing street space on high-speed Northern Boulevard so people can safely bike to Joe Michaels Mile.

This concept for a protected bike lane on 43rd Avenue in Sunnyside emphasizes safety for cyclists and pedestrians at intersections. Image: Max Sholl

Yes, There’s Room for a Protected Bike Lane on 43rd Avenue

By David Meyer | Jul 17, 2017 | 9 Comments

In April, a drunk driver killed Gelacio Reyes, 32, on 43rd Avenue at 39th Street as he biked home in the early morning from work in Midtown Manhattan. Now advocates are renewing their call for DOT to install a protected bike lane on 43rd Avenue and its westbound counterpart, Skillman Avenue, which connect the Queensboro Bridge to the protected bike lanes on Queens Boulevard.

DOT crews installing a new barrier-protected bike lane on Bruckner Boulevard between Bryant Avenue and Faile Street. Photo: Twitter/NYC DOT

DOT Closes Short Bike Lane Gap on Bruckner Blvd — Next Phase Scheduled for 2021

By David Meyer | Jul 13, 2017 | 16 Comments

DOT crews have started to fill in a dangerous three-block gap in the bikeway on Bruckner Boulevard in the South Bronx, creating a more continuous link to Concrete Plant Park. The ultimate goal is a direct, uninterrupted bike route on Bruckner Boulevard connecting to Manhattan and Randall's Island via 138th Street, but under the agency's current timetable Bronxites will have to wait several years for that.

The parking-protected bike lanes would narrow the dangerously wide motor vehicle lanes on a stretch of Fountain Avenue in East New York. Image: DOT

DOT Proposes Protected Bike Lane Connecting East New York and Jamaica Bay

By David Meyer | Jun 28, 2017 | 3 Comments

Building on the rollout of painted bike lanes in Brownsville and East New York that began in 2013, DOT is now planning for the area's first on-street protected lanes on Fountain Avenue, which would connect to the Jamaica Bay Greenway.

DOT's new proposal for protected lanes anticipates -- and enables -- double parking on Dyckman Street. Image: DOT

Behold: The DOT Plan for Protected Bike Lanes on Dyckman Street

By David Meyer | Jun 16, 2017 | 15 Comments

The project would bring parking-protected lanes to Dyckman from Broadway to 10th Avenue, which Inwood residents have asked for since 2008.

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