The Beginnings of the Chrystie Street Protected Bike Lane
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DOT is striping and painting the new two-way protected bike lane between the Manhattan Bridge and Houston Street.
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Eyes on the Street: Making Room for the Chrystie Street Protected Bike Lane
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Before DOT can stripe a two-way protected bike lane on Chrystie Street, it has to relocate three pedestrian islands to make room for the bikeway. Work on those islands — at Canal, Broome, and Delancey streets — appears to be mostly complete. The protected bike lane along the eastern curb of Chrystie will replace today’s un-protected painted lanes, which leave […]
Eyes on the Street: The New East Houston Street
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The long-delayed reconstruction of East Houston Street between the Bowery and the FDR Drive is starting to round into form. Though the Department of Design and Construction won’t wrap up the project until next year at the earliest, new medians and pedestrian areas between Avenue A and Chrystie Street are finally complete, and the transition to the First Avenue bike lane is […]
Eyes on the Street: New Bike Lanes Around Union Square
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DOT began installing new bike lanes leading to and around Union Square this week. The project — which will eventually include a two-way protected lane around the park’s eastern and northern edges — is not nearly complete, but fresh paint along Fourth Avenue between 12th and 15th heralds bigger changes on the way. In addition […]
Eyes on the Street: Drivers Can Now Park All Over the E 38th Street Bike Lane
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Mere weeks after installing a parking-protected bike lane on East 38th Street in Marine Park, DOT removed the protection, caving to complaints about the narrower roadway even though the motor vehicle lane was still a roomy 12 feet wide. Streetsblog reader Jeffrey Diamond shot this video of how the bike lane, which is part of a project designed to improve bike access to the Jamaica […]
Eyes on the Street: NYC’s Newest Bus Zones on 23rd Street, Jay Street
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DOT crews recently put down new terra cotta paint for buses on 23rd Street in Manhattan and Jay Street in Brooklyn. In the fall, Select Bus Service will bring faster bus service to the M23’s 15,000 daily riders with dedicated lanes, off-board payment, and consolidated bus stops. The bus lanes are set to run eastbound from Ninth Avenue to Second Avenue and westbound […]