Recent Streetsblog NYC posts about Protected Bike Lanes

Manhattan CB 3 Asks DOT for Protected Bikeway on Chrystie Street

By Stephen Miller | Feb 26, 2015 | 19 Comments

In a unanimous 35-0 vote last night, Manhattan Community Board 3, which covers Chinatown and the Lower East Side, asked DOT to study a two-way protected bikeway for Chrystie Street, an important link to the Manhattan Bridge bike path. The vote follows months of dialogue between bike advocates and community groups, and comes on the […]

CB 3 Committee Asks DOT for Protected Bikeway on Chrystie Street

By Stephen Miller | Feb 13, 2015 | 33 Comments

The community board covering the Lower East Side and Chinatown is set to ask DOT to transform the Chrystie Street bike lane from barely visible stripes blocked by double-parked cars into a two-way protected bikeway along Sara D. Roosevelt Park, connecting the Manhattan Bridge with the Second Avenue protected bike lane. The transportation committee of […]

Eyes on the Street: Un-Plowed Bikeway on Parks Department Turf

By Stephen Miller | Jan 29, 2015 | 7 Comments

Most of NYC’s bridge paths and protected bikeways seem to have been cleared well in the aftermath of this week’s snowstorm, judging by the lack of snowed-in bike lane photos in the Streetsblog inbox. It’s a different story on Parks Department turf. This stretch, flagged by commenter BBnet3000 yesterday morning, is the center median bikeway on […]

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Pieces in Place for AASHTO to Endorse Protected Bike Lanes… by 2020

By Michael Andersen | Jan 28, 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. The bible of U.S. bikeway engineering, last revised just before the modern American protected bike lane explosion, will almost certainly include protected lanes in its next update. That’s the implication of a […]

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Dutch Suburbs Are Like America’s, and Protected Bike Lanes Work Fine There

By Kirk Boydston | Jan 15, 2015 | No Comments

This post is part of The Green Lane Project, a PeopleForBikes program that helps U.S. cities build better bike lanes to create low-stress streets. This is the first in a two-post series on Dutch suburbs. People the in U.S. street design world — sometimes even people who write for this very website — regularly say […]

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Vote to Decide the Best Urban Street Transformation of 2014

By Angie Schmitt | Dec 17, 2014 | No Comments

If you’re searching for reasons to feel positive about the future, the street transformations pictured below are a good start. Earlier this month we asked readers to send in their nominations for the best American street redesigns of 2014. These five are the finalists selected by Streetsblog staff. They include new car-free zones, substantial sidewalk […]

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