Protected Bike Lanes
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What An Ideal Green New Deal for Transportation Might Look Like
A truly green new deal must focus on reducing the amount Americans drive, a new report argues — and doing so will take an unprecedented portfolio of investments into sustainable modes.
March 22, 2022
DOT May (May?!) Fund the Streets Master Plan For This Year, But Advocates Want More
Pols and advocates are demanding that the city actually fund the long-awaited Streets Master Plan, which requires scores of new miles of protected bike lanes and bus lanes, cleaner sidewalks, and car-free streets.
March 17, 2022
Brooklyn Bridge Bike Lane Led Ongoing Boom Through 2021
Daily trips over the new eight-foot two-way bike path on the roadbed of the bridge’s Manhattan-bound side soared 27.2 percent across all of 2021, according to data compiled by Bike New York.
March 7, 2022
North Brooklyn Seeks Some of that Jersey Barrier Magic on Grand Street
Without barricades, "it’s only a matter of time before the next preventable death," a letter to DOT states.
March 4, 2022
Bike Lane Bolstering Begins — But it Won’t Be Done in 100 Days, As Promised
The protecting of protected bike lanes has begun ... slowly.
February 18, 2022
Bike NY to DOT: The City’s Cycling Program is No Longer a World Leader, So Fix It
The first order of business is recognizing the city has a problem, the Jan. 7 letter from Bike New York to DOT Commissioner Ydanis Rodriguez stated.
January 12, 2022
N’East Queens to DOT: Give Us the Safest Bike Lanes, Not Just Paint
They want the best or nothing.
January 4, 2022
DOT Study Shows that Bike Lanes Cut Risk of Cyclist Injury By One-Third (Yes, And…?)
So remind us again? How come every street doesn't have a bike lane?
October 29, 2021
E-Cyclist Rider Killed on Roadway that Once Had a Protected Bike Lane … Until DOT Downgraded It
A teenager in a 4,000-pound Chevy pickup truck driving the wrong way on a dangerous Queens overpass struck and killed an e-bike rider who was in a bike lane that the city had once built as a "protected" bike lane, but then downgraded to mere paint after drivers destroyed all the flex-posts that once secured the lane.
October 11, 2021
New Bike Lanes Coming to Howard Beach — But Not on the Damn Addabbo Bridge
How come the Brooklyn Bridge can get thousands of pounds of new jersey barriers, but the existing barriers on the Addabbo Bridge can't simply be moved?
September 15, 2021