TransAlt to DOT: Street Redesigns Aren’t a Zero-Sum Game
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The redesign of Fifth Avenue isn't "a zero sum game" where better transit has to take priority over safe bicycling, or vice versa.
Recent Streetsblog NYC posts about Midtown
Hundreds of Volunteers Made Fifth Ave Safe for Biking Last Night. DOT Can Do It Permanently.
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More than 300 volunteers organized by Transportation Alternatives formed a six block-long "human-protected bike lane" on Fifth Avenue last night, calling on the de Blasio administration to extend the protected bike lane network through Midtown's busiest streets.
Tonight: Tell the Mayor NYC’s Busiest Avenues Need Protected Bike Lanes
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You can tell City Hall to make Midtown avenues safe for biking at what Transportation Alternatives is billing as the world's longest "human-protected bike lane."
DOT Previews Car-Lite 43rd Street by Grand Central
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Once it was off-limits to cars this afternoon, the block filled up with people pretty much instantaneously.
Mayor de Blasio Throws Red Meat to the Bike Haters in Midtown
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De Blasio made no attempt to win over skeptics of bike infrastructure, showed no grasp of the pedestrian safety effects of protected bike lanes, and appeared content to let anecdotes and unfocused anger sway policy instead of the proven track record of his own DOT's projects.
DOT Still Lacks a Plan for Better Walking and Biking in the Heart of Midtown
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At a Community Board 5 meeting, dozens of people called out DOT for hesitating to claim street space for wide sidewalks and protected bike lanes in the most crowded part of the city.