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Eyes on the Street: Safer Crossing Shaping Up at Broadway and Sherman

By Brad Aaron | Nov 23, 2015 | 4 Comments

Earlier this year DOT put Inwood’s Sherman Avenue on a road diet, reducing the number of lanes for motor vehicles and adding bike lanes along the length of the street, from Broadway to 10th Avenue. That plan included a redesign of the intersection of Sherman at Broadway that now looks close to complete. The most significant change is at […]

Eyes on the Street: Flex Posts Keep Drivers Out of 158th Street Bike Lane

By Brad Aaron | Oct 30, 2015 | 25 Comments

Reader Alec Melman sent these before-and-after pics of the bikeway on 158th Street in Manhattan, which is now protected with flex posts. The lane is part of a package of Upper Manhattan bike improvements intended to make biking and walking safer between the Hudson River Greenway and the High Bridge. As you can see in the photo below, […]

Eyes on the Street: Progress on Pulaski Bridge Bikeway

By Brad Aaron | Oct 15, 2015 | 14 Comments

Last week DOT posted photos of construction work on the Pulaski Bridge bikeway on the project’s Facebook page. DOT is adding a protected lane that will create more room for people who bike and walk the bridge, which connects Greenpoint and Long Island City over Newtown Creek. The project has been on New Yorkers’ wish list for […]

Eyes on the Street: DOT Begins Filling Gap in First Av Bike Lane [Updated]

By Stephen Miller | Oct 8, 2015 | 6 Comments

The Pope has left town and the United Nations General Assembly is over, meaning it’s time to make First Avenue a better place to bike and walk. The gap in the First Avenue protected bike lane was baked into the initial plans for it, which called only for sharrows between 49th and 59th streets in order to […]

Eyes on the Street: A Flower-Protected Chrystie Street Bike Lane

By Stephen Miller | Oct 7, 2015 | 17 Comments

Chrystie Street: 25 cones, 1 dozen sunflowers. Enjoy your commute. #bikenyc #demandmore pic.twitter.com/nrPzu431oP — Transformation Dept. (@NYC_DOTr) October 7, 2015 Bike commuters on Chrystie Street found a pleasant surprise this morning. The street’s northbound bike lane, a busy connector from the Manhattan Bridge that’s usually a favorite of illegally-parked drivers, had received an upgrade: Someone added orange traffic […]

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