Bicycle Infrastructure
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Starting With a Single Street, an Effort to Make an Entire Borough Safer
Last year, Hilda Cohen, Ali Loxton and their neighbors picked up the pieces of a torpedoed bike lane proposal for Lafayette Avenue, showing DOT and Brooklyn Community Board 2 the community's broad support for safer cycling on the busy street. After 1,400 signatures and countless hours of work, Lafayette Avenue from Fulton Street to Classon Avenue was recently striped with a shared lane for bicyclists.
October 12, 2012
Bike Lanes Mean Business
The East Village and Lower East Side have seen new bike infrastructure flourish in the past few years, and now have some of the best city bicycling infrastructure in the country, including what will soon be the nation’s longest protected bike lanes on First and Second Avenues, several on-street bike corrals, and, coming next spring, bike-share stations blanketing the neighborhood.
October 12, 2012
Eyes on the Street: A Safer Northern Boulevard Bridge Entrance
Riders in the NYC Century Bike Tour last weekend might have noticed a recent upgrade on the bike/pedestrian path on the Northern Boulevard bridge as they navigated from Flushing to Willets Point.
September 13, 2012
Eyes on the Street: New and Improved Allen Street Bikeway and Plazas
The construction barriers are down and the tables and chairs are out on Allen Street in Chinatown. While there's still some planting and other work left to be done, the public spaces are already magnets for people. The median bikeway on the three-block stretch between Hester and Delancey is also open and rideable again.
August 8, 2012
House GOP Threatens to Wipe Out Local Control Over Bike/Ped Funding
The House GOP couldn't pass a transportation bill of their own, so now they want to undo one of the major bi-partisan achievements in the Senate transportation bill.
June 8, 2012
Eyes on the Street: New Manhattan Bikeways in Progress
Photo contributor extraordinaire Jacob-uptown has uploaded a new batch to the Streetsblog Flickr pool, taking us on a tour of the major new bikeways DOT is implementing in Manhattan.
June 7, 2012
Green Lane Project Spreads the Word About NACTO’s Bikeway Design Guide
For the next two years, the Green Lane Project will lend expertise and support to Austin, Chicago, Memphis, Portland, San Francisco and Washington, D.C. as those cities implement the type of infrastructure that has proven successful at leading people to take up biking for transportation. The project bills itself as a “storytelling campaign” for the cities to share their experiences.
May 29, 2012
Eyes on the Street: Protected Bike Lane Sighting on the Upper East Side
Reader Liz Patek sends these shots of the new road markings on First Avenue in the 60s. The protected bike lane that Manhattan Community Board 8 approved last summer is going in.
April 4, 2012
New WHO Tool Calculates the Health Savings of Bike/Ped Infrastructure
Sidewalks, bike lanes, traffic calming projects -- they save lives. Not just by protecting cyclists and pedestrians (not to mention motorists), but by encouraging physical activity that leads to a healthy life.
March 23, 2012
Bikes Belong to Help Six Cities Build Protected Bikeways
Six cities will adopt innovate street designs for safer cycling over the next two years as part of a new program from Bikes Belong.
February 8, 2012