Recent Streetsblog NYC posts about Bridges

Queensboro Bridge Bike/Ped Path Will Close Every Night Until 2017 (At Least)

By David Meyer | Sep 30, 2016 | 54 Comments

Valentin wants to sleep, not take bus home. He wld be grateful for South access to QBB at night @NYC_DOT @transalt pic.twitter.com/TiHO8Kvcvj — Angela Stach (@radlerkoenigin) April 28, 2016 People who bike over the Queensboro Bridge had to endure months without nighttime access to the bridge’s car-free path earlier this year, with ConEd infrastructure work closing off […]

Tolling Opens Up Possibilities for Better Brooklyn Bridge Walking and Biking

By Charles Komanoff | Aug 10, 2016 | 2 Comments

With crowding on the Brooklyn Bridge walking and biking path in a state of near constant low-level emergency, this week NYC DOT announced a feasibility study of widening the bridge’s promenade. A path with sufficient space for the thousands of commuters, exercisers, and tourists who walk and bike across the bridge each day would be an […]

Brooklyn Bridge Promenade Expansion Could Start in 2019

By David Meyer | Aug 8, 2016 | 53 Comments

An expansion of the Brooklyn Bridge walking and biking path could get underway by 2019 if it’s folded into a rehab project that’s already in the pipeline, DOT Commissioner Polly Trottenberg said this afternoon. The path is as narrow as 10 feet at pinch points and cannot comfortably accommodate the thousands of people who use it each […]

DOT Will Study Widening the Brooklyn Bridge Walking and Biking Path

By Ben Fried | Aug 8, 2016 | 54 Comments

The days of pedestrians and cyclists fighting for scraps of space on the Brooklyn Bridge may be numbered. NYC DOT has initiated a study of expanding the narrow promenade, which is too crowded to work well for pedestrians or cyclists for most of the year. The Times reports that the city has retained engineering firm AECOM […]

The Port Authority’s Missed Opportunity to Make a Bike-Friendly GW Bridge

By David Meyer | Jul 22, 2016 | 80 Comments

Next year, the Port Authority will begin a seven-year, $1.03 billion renovation of the suspension cables on the George Washington Bridge [PDF]. Announced in March 2014, the project includes new ramps to the bridge’s bike and pedestrian paths, eliminating stairs and a hairpin turn. But it won’t widen a bike path that is already too small […]

With Matthew von Ohlen’s Killer Still at Large, NYPD Is in Bike Blitz Mode

By David Meyer | Jul 6, 2016 | 47 Comments

Wouldn’t have believed it if I hadn’t seen it with my own eyes. #myNYPD in Interceptor ticketing cyclists in Manhattan Bridge. Just crazy. — Brooklyn Spoke (@BrooklynSpoke) July 6, 2016 Big ticket blitz at 1st Ave and 12th St. Also saw a cop on the #ManhattanBridge for the first time ever #bikenyc — Bahij Chancey […]

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