Recent Streetsblog NYC posts about Bridges

Concrete Truck Plows Into Canal Street Sidewalk, Injuring Eight

By Ben Fried | Nov 11, 2009 | 13 Comments

Photo: Matt Hogan. Eight people were injured this afternoon after a concrete truck careened into the sidewalk on the one-block diagonal linking Canal Street to the Bowery. Vehicles exiting the Manhattan Bridge have turned this block, often teeming with people waiting for the Fung Wah Bus, into a constant danger zone. Here’s what an employee […]

Eyes on the Street: WillyB @ Delancey — Bring on the Stencils

By Ben Fried | Oct 27, 2009 | 5 Comments

Fresh markings are going down on the revamped approach to the Williamsburg Bridge at Delancey Street. Courtesy of Adopt-a-Bike Lane volunteer leader Marin Tockman, here’s what the site looked like as of yesterday afternoon. Seems like a marked, one-block connection to the median at Suffolk Street is imminent. Another reader informs us that Suffolk, which […]

Streetfilms Shorties: The Brooklyn Bridge Bike-Ped Squeeze

By Clarence Eckerson Jr. | Oct 26, 2009 | 18 Comments

A hot topic on Streetsblog the past few weeks has been the massive numbers of pedestrians and cyclists using the Brooklyn Bridge walkway during rush hours and weekends. Since many folks don’t have the chance to experience the promenade day-in and day-out, I decided to capture the conditions on a recent ride home from work. […]

Eyes on the Street: A Smoother Approach to the Willy-B

By Ben Fried | Oct 21, 2009 | 4 Comments

We’ve received a few reports in the past week about construction work on the Manhattan side of the Williamsburg Bridge. DOT’s press office says six bike ramps are being installed, and we hear from observers on the ground that construction is largely complete as of this morning: The bridge approach at Delancey and Clinton Street […]

No Bike-Ped Overhaul in Brooklyn Bridge Reno Plans [Updated]

By Mathew Katz | Oct 19, 2009 | 29 Comments

The city will soon start a multi-million dollar overhaul of the Brooklyn Bridge, and while they're adding more space for cars, they're not doing anything about the havoc on the shared cyclist-pedestrian walkway.

What’s Your Brooklyn Bridge Ideal?

By Brad Aaron | Sep 29, 2009 | 43 Comments

East River bridge traffic counts and configurations through 1989. Source: FHWA [PDF] Over the weekend, a Times op-ed from Robert "The Schluffer" Sullivan proposed physically protected roadway-level bike lanes on the Brooklyn Bridge as a way to eliminate cyclist-pedestrian conflicts and stem anti-cyclist sentiment. Sullivan notes that, about a century ago, when it carried over […]

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