Recent Streetsblog NYC posts about Williamsburg Bridge

Eyes on the Street: The Williamsburg Bridge Bike Path Freezes Over

By Ben Fried | Dec 11, 2014 | 46 Comments

The Williamsburg Bridge is a sheet of ice. #bikenyc pic.twitter.com/2hLMDYW4yM — Will Sherman (@WillSherman) December 11, 2014 Courtesy of Will Sherman, here’s what the Williamsburg Bridge bike path — one of the most important bike transportation connections in the city — looked like this morning after the season’s first snowfall. Icy and unbikeable. Sherman says […]

In Wake of Traffic Fatality Spike, Officials Tout Safer Delancey Street

By Stephen Miller | Sep 27, 2012 | 6 Comments

This morning, elected officials and community leaders unveiled a slate of pedestrian safety improvements to Delancey Street, long ranked as one of the city’s most dangerous places to walk. Nine people were killed and 742 injured between 2006 and 2010 on Delancey, from the Williamsburg Bridge to the Bowery. In the last six years, there […]

Eyes on the Street: A Better Willy-B Approach on Clinton Street

By Ben Fried | Aug 24, 2012 | 6 Comments

DOT Shortens Pedestrian Crossings on Delancey, Doesn’t Touch Traffic

By Noah Kazis | Feb 9, 2012 | 2 Comments

The crosswalks will be getting shorter on Delancey Street — one of the city’s deadliest corridors — thanks to a new safety plan from the Department of Transportation [PDF]. At 14 of 19 crossings between Clinton Street and the Bowery, neckdowns will extend the sidewalk into the street, making the distance across the extremely wide […]

Has DOT Decided Against Designing a Safer Delancey Street? [Updated]

By Noah Kazis | Sep 6, 2011 | 32 Comments

Three concrete walls will soon surround the Manhattan entrance to the Williamsburg Bridge, as reported in Gothamist and the Villager. The construction, already underway and due to be completed at the beginning of next year, is part of a Department of Transportation effort to force cyclists coming down the ramp from the bridge to slow […]

Eyes on the Street: NYPD’s Traffic Enforcement Resources at Work

By Ben Fried | Apr 21, 2011 | 29 Comments

Here’s another story of how Police Commissioner Ray Kelly allows his scarce traffic safety resources to be spent. Reader Marc Norman took this picture after an encounter at the base of the Williamsburg Bridge bike-ped path this morning. He writes: Because I can’t help myself, I got off my bike and asked the cop parked […]

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