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DOT Unveils Plan for a Two-Way Protected Bike Lane on Chrystie Street
DOT unveiled its plan for a two-way protected bike lane on Chrystie Street last night [PDF], a project that promises to drastically improve safety and reduce stress for people biking to and from the Manhattan Bridge.
March 9, 2016
DOT Will Fill in Most of the Second Avenue Bike Lane Gap in Midtown
DOT will present plans this spring to fill most, but not all, of the remaining gaps in the north-south protected bike lanes on the East Side of Manhattan. Significantly, DOT intends to create a physically protected bike lane on Second Avenue between 59th Street and 43rd Street. Combined with the bike lane extension coming to the Upper East Side after surface work on the Second Avenue Subway wraps up, the project would close most of the remaining gaps on the avenue but leave the approaches to the Queensboro Bridge and the Queens Midtown Tunnel exposed.
March 8, 2016
Tremont Avenue in Line for New Cross-Bronx Bike Route
Last month, when Council Member Ritchie Torres lambasted DOT's deference to community boards over street safety projects, he anticipated a fight over the agency's plan for bike lanes on Tremont Avenue.
February 5, 2016
What’s Next for 6th Ave Protected Bike Lane and Crosstown Routes on UES
Two Manhattan bike projects went before community boards last night. The CB 8 transportation committee heard from DOT about the agency's plan for crosstown bike lanes on the Upper East Side, and CB 4 endorsed the protected lane on Sixth Avenue, which DOT plans to install in the fall.
February 4, 2016
Amsterdam Ave Protected Bike Lane Finally Happening After 28-13 CB 7 Vote
By a count of 28 in favor and 13 opposed, Manhattan Community Board 7 voted last night to endorse DOT’s plan for a protected bike lane along Amsterdam Avenue from 72nd Street to 110th Street. The vote affirmed a safety project that Upper West Siders have worked toward for several years, but the meeting itself devolved into farce, with some board members making a last-minute attempt to stop the redesign despite the long public process, endorsements from major elected officials, and the large crowd who turned out to support it.
February 3, 2016
Why Arguments Against the Amsterdam Protected Bike Lane Don’t Hold Up
This is the day Manhattan Community Board 7 will finally vote on DOT’s redesign of Amsterdam Avenue from 72nd Street to 110th Street, which will calm traffic and bring safety improvements -- including a protected bike lane -- to what is now a surface speedway cutting through the heart of the Upper West Side. It's been a long time coming: CB 7 first asked DOT to design a protected bike lane for Amsterdam in 2009, and local residents have been asking for safety improvements longer than that.
February 2, 2016
CB 4 Transpo Committee Endorses Sixth Ave Protected Lane
DOT is set to move forward with a protected bike lane on Sixth Avenue from 8th Street to 33rd Street after members of the Community Board 4 transportation committee gave the project a thumbs-up last night.
January 21, 2016
Looking to Join Your Community Board? TA Makes It Easy to Apply
As Streetsblog readers know, too many community boards care more about on-street parking than street safety or housing affordability, even in districts where the majority of residents don’t own cars. DOT rarely implements safety measures over board objections (which Council Member Ritchie Torres would like to change).
January 14, 2016
Torres: DOT “Abdicating Its Public Safety Function” to Community Boards
Council Member Ritchie Torres has a proposal to survey community board demographics in an effort to promote more accurate and diverse representation. Among other information, the survey would reveal the share of community board members who own cars, which tends to be much higher than car ownership among the general public.
January 14, 2016
Most New Yorkers Don’t Own Cars. Do Community Boards Reflect That?
Most households in New York City, about 56 percent, don't own cars. But if you've ever attended a community board meeting about redesigning a street, you might have come away thinking that car storage is the single most important function our streets serve.
January 11, 2016