Recent Streetsblog NYC posts about Protected Bike Lanes

VFW Post 150 was at maximum capacity for last night's Queens CB 4 meeting. Photo: David Meyer

Time for de Blasio to Make 111th Street Safer Without Waiting for James Lisa and Queens CB 4

By David Meyer | Mar 22, 2017 | 4 Comments

City Hall can move ahead with the redesign without a community board vote in favor. It's simply cruel to keep in place dangerous crossings with high-speed traffic when a better design is ready to go and so many people have campaigned for safer conditions for so long.

Somewhere under all that snow and ice is a bike lane.

Behold the Worst-Plowed Bike Lane in New York

By David Meyer | Mar 17, 2017 | 7 Comments

It's been three days since Stella dropped its wintry precipitation on the city, but the protected bike lane on Grand Street in Manhattan remains unusable beneath three-foot mounds of snow.

Instead of its current plan for Brooklyn's Fourth Avenue (top), DOT is considering a design that includes protected bike lanes. Image: DOT

DOT Is Getting Serious About Protected Bike Lanes for 4th Avenue

By David Meyer | Mar 16, 2017 | 22 Comments

DOT will present a redesign for Brooklyn's 4th Avenue with protected bike lanes from 65th Street to Dean Street. It's an important shift from earlier plans that called for casting the current street design in concrete without adding bike infrastructure.

Goodbye, illegally parked police cars and press vans on Park Row. Hello protected bikeway. Image: DOT

DOT Has a Fix for the Crummy Bike Connection Between Lower Manhattan and the Brooklyn Bridge

By Ben Fried | Mar 15, 2017 | 30 Comments

The big change in DOT's plan is a two-way section of bike lane protected by a concrete barrier on Park Row, plus a short contraflow lane on Spruce Street. It's not a lot of bike lane mileage, but it's a key link in the network that will be dramatically improved.

DOT plans to add two-way protected bike lanes at the foot of the Williamsburg Bridge bike path in Brooklyn. Image: DOT

DOT Plans Better Bike Connections for Brooklyn Side of Williamsburg Bridge

By David Meyer | Mar 13, 2017 | 22 Comments

At Brooklyn Community Board 1, DOT will present a plan to improve bicycle connections on the Brooklyn side of the Williamsburg Bridge, including protected bike lanes on the blocks approaching the bridge's bike path.

DOT Commissioner Polly Trottenberg speaking in Queens this morning. Photo: David Meyer

Trottenberg: Safer 111th Street “Tremendously Important” But Let’s See How CB 4 Votes

By David Meyer | Mar 3, 2017 | 6 Comments

Days after a member of Queens Community Board 4 said a protected bike lane on 111th Street won't be necessary because undocumented immigrants will be deported, Transportation Commissioner Polly Trottenberg called the project "tremendously important" but stopped short of saying the city will definitely proceed with it.

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