Recent Streetsblog NYC posts about Protected Bike Lanes

Construction Begins on First Phase of Transforming Queens Blvd

By Stephen Miller | Jul 23, 2015 | 1 Comment

The redesign of Queens Boulevard, long one of New York’s most notorious death traps, is underway. “Queens Boulevard is tragically legendary. We all became used to the phrase ‘the Boulevard of Death,’” Mayor Bill de Blasio said at a press conference this morning marking the start of construction. “That is a phrase we want to banish from the […]

Will 2nd Ave Get Its Protected Bike Lane After Subway Construction Wraps?

By Ben Fried | Jul 17, 2015 | 40 Comments

As the first phase of the Second Avenue Subway wraps up sometime in the next two years, the largest construction zone in the city will turn back into a functional street. Those 40 blocks of Second Avenue on the Upper East Side won’t be the same as before, though. Back in 2010, the city laid out a plan to […]

DOT Opens Greenpoint Ave Bridge Bike Lanes — Now With Flex-Posts

By Stephen Miller | Jul 2, 2015 | 24 Comments

DOT staff led a celebratory ride on the Greenpoint Avenue Bridge over Newtown Creek this morning to mark the completion of new bike lanes between Brooklyn and Queens. The lanes provide safer passage on what had been a nerve-wracking crossing next to fast-moving traffic and lots of trucks. The project was first proposed in 2010 and revived earlier […]

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Newark Clears Bike Lane of Cars, Solves Parking Problem With Meters Instead

By Michael Andersen | Jul 1, 2015 | No Comments

Michael Andersen blogs for The Green Lane Project, a PeopleForBikes program that helps U.S. cities build better bike lanes to create low-stress streets. Three months after Newark drew national attention for considering removal of New Jersey’s only protected bike lane in order to allow illegal double-parking, the city has found a different solution. Instead of […]

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America Could Have Been Building Protected Bike Lanes for the Last 40 Years

By Marc Caswell | Jun 30, 2015 | No Comments

Salt Lake City is on track to implement the nation’s first “protected intersection” — a Dutch-inspired design to minimize conflicts between cyclists and drivers at crossings. For American cities, this treatment feels like the cutting edge, but a look back at the history of bike planning in the United States reveals that even here, this idea is far from new. In fact, […]

Eyes on the Street: Protection for Cyclists on Bruckner Boulevard

By Ben Fried | Jun 25, 2015 | 11 Comments

DOT crews were out on Bruckner Boulevard yesterday putting in Jersey barriers to protect a new two-way bike lane. The bikeway will run for half a mile between Hunts Point Avenue and Longwood Avenue, the first phase in what should eventually be a link between the Bronx River Greenway and Randall’s Island. For the time being, it will terminate […]

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