Recent Streetsblog NYC posts about #StuckAtDOT

Here's a classic top-of-the-T intersection in front of the Whole Foods in Gowanus. Photo: Google

#StuckAtDOT: Whatever Happened to Those Awesome Rule Changes for Cyclists?

By Gersh Kuntzman | Nov 25, 2022 | No Comments

The Department of Transportation has not moved forward with a series of ambitious rule changes that would have improved cycling and encouraged more people to get around on two wheels, Streetsblog has learned.

Council Member Rita Joseph wants more speed bumps. But they take years. Photo: Gersh Kuntzman

#StuckAtDOT: It Takes Years (and Years) to Get a Speed Hump in this City

By Gersh Kuntzman | Nov 11, 2022 | No Comments

A Brooklyn City Council member has a simple question for the Department of Transportation: Why does it take years and years (and sometimes years and years and years) to put in a simple speed bump?

The Department of Sanitation has been promising for two years that New York will get some below-grade trash containers. We're still waiting. Photo: Marvel Architects and Recycle Track Systems, in partnership with Sam Schwartz Engineering and HR&A Advisors

Sanitation Dept. Urged to Get Garbage out of Pedestrians’ Way

By Eve Kessler | Oct 8, 2021 | No Comments

Nineteen months after 'Clean Curbs" was announced with great fanfare, not a container has been sited anywhere. The next mayor ought to get cracking.

Virtually all the space on E. 117th Street between Pleasant Avenue and the East River Plaza Mall is set aside for cars, even though walkers often outnumber vehicles. Photo: Google

#StuckAtDOT: Six Years Later, City May Give Harlem Pedestrians Some Relief … On One Block

By Julianne Cuba | Sep 22, 2021 | No Comments

A six-year-old request for a sidewalk extension on a single Harlem block — where pedestrians sometimes outnumber cars three to one — looks like it is finally moving forward.

The northwest entrance to the Astoria Heights Playground (center) lacks crosswalks or a stop sign. Photo: John Surico

#StuckAtDOT: The Case of the Missing Crosswalk

By John Surico | May 24, 2021 | No Comments

A block in Astoria with a playground and a school lacks crucial pedestrian infrastructure. Why?

The design of "bike boulevards" was not discussed in the mayor's speech. File photo: Clarence Eckerson Jr.

It’s Time for DOT to Create ‘Bike Boulevards’ — So What’s a Bike Boulevard?

By Laura Shepard | Nov 22, 2020 | No Comments

In short, it's a quick, cheap and easy way to create a network of low-stress cycling routes.

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