The Hudson River Greenway Needs Great Design, Not Knee-Jerk Security Fixes
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The greenway is bursting at the seams during warmer months and needs to be widened to handle the peak volume of bike and pedestrian traffic it carries.
Recent Streetsblog NYC posts about West Village
Hot Topic at West Village L Train Shutdown Meeting: The 13th Street Protected Bike Lane
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DOT expects bicycling to double along the L corridor, translating to 2,000-5,000 daily bike trips on 13th Street.
West Village Lawyer Arthur Schwartz Threatens to Drag DOT to Court Over Its L Train Shutdown Plan
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Last week, Schwartz sent an ultimatum to DOT Commissioner Polly Trottenberg demanding an "environmental impact statement" for the city's L train shutdown plan.
The Earth Is Flat and 14th Street Doesn’t Need a Busway During the L Shutdown
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Just like a flat-Earther will always scream about the moon landing being faked, a 14th Street busway NIMBY will always claim that the MTA's ridership stats can't be trusted.
There’s No Reasoning With the NIMBYs Opposed to a 14th Street Busway
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Unless DOT and the MTA carve out street space for the most spatially efficient modes of travel, the impending L train shutdown is going to unleash a traffic tsunami on the neighborhoods around 14th Street. Just try telling that to the West Village residents who turned up at open house on the agencies' L train shutdown plans last night.
DOT Unveils Plan for Protected Bike Lane on Seventh Avenue South
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Last night, DOT presented the southern segment of its plan for a Seventh Avenue protected bike lane, from 14th Street to Clarkson Street [PDF], to the Manhattan CB 2 transportation committee, which voted for it unanimously.