Recent Streetsblog NYC posts about Protected Bike Lanes

The Case for a Two-Way Protected Bike Lane on Plaza Street

By Mike Epstein | Apr 12, 2012 | 13 Comments

Cross-posted from Brooklyn Spoke. In April 2010, DOT proposed an overhaul of the chaotic and dangerous Grand Army Plaza to include two-way protected bike lanes on Plaza Street East and West. (Plaza Street is not the high-speed roadway around the arch and fountain, but rather the less trafficked outer roadways, which already have one-way buffered […]

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Bikes Belong Selects Six Cities to Fast Track Protected Bike Lanes

By Angie Schmitt | Apr 4, 2012 | No Comments

The Bikes Belong Foundation has chosen six cities to fast track physically protected bikeway designs that make cycling safer and more accessible to a wide range of people. Austin, Chicago, Memphis, Portland, San Francisco and Washington D.C. will receive a leg up from Bikes Belong’s new “Green Lane Project.” The two-year, intensive technical assistance program […]

Eyes on the Street: Protected Bike Lane Sighting on the Upper East Side

By Ben Fried | Apr 4, 2012 | 10 Comments

Reader Liz Patek sends these shots of the new road markings on First Avenue in the 60s. The protected bike lane that Manhattan Community Board 8 approved last summer is going in. Until now there was no bike infrastructure at all on First Avenue between 60th Street and 72nd Street. Filling that gap is DOT’s […]

Two-Way Bike Lane Back on Table For Plaza Street, But Will It Be Protected?

By Noah Kazis | Apr 3, 2012 | 10 Comments

Is the NBBL era finally behind us? First, Senator Chuck Schumer himself was spotted riding in the Prospect Park West bike lane. Now, the Department of Transportation is reviving a plan, shelved at the height of the NBBL-aided media circus about cycling, to build a two-way bike lane on Plaza Street. DOT first proposed the […]

After 18 Months of Bike Lane, Columbus Ave Retail Looks as Strong as Ever

By Ben Fried | Mar 30, 2012 | 14 Comments

You might remember a wave of news stories that broke around this time last year with headlines like: “Columbus Avenue Business Owners Say Bike Lanes Driving Down Bottom Line,” or “Lack of Parking Destroying Columbus Avenue Business,” or “Study: Street Redesign Hurting Upper West Side Businesses.” The Columbus Avenue bike lane, with its 28 pedestrian […]

CB 4 Wins Sidewalk Expansions, Bike Corrals For West Side Bike Lanes

By Noah Kazis | Mar 28, 2012 | 6 Comments

One of the year’s most exciting street safety projects is on track to get better. Thanks to a recent set of recommendations from Community Board 4, the extension of the protected bike lanes on Eighth and Ninth Avenues will include additional sidewalk expansions and on-street bike parking. Though DOT didn’t adopt all of the board’s ideas — most […]

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