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DOT Will Study Widening the Brooklyn Bridge Walking and Biking Path
The days of pedestrians and cyclists fighting for scraps of space on the Brooklyn Bridge may be numbered.
August 8, 2016
Get Ready For a Very Uncomfortable Year on the Brooklyn Bridge
Just as the weather warms and tourists once again mob the Brooklyn Bridge to admire the skyline and snap some photos, DOT has announced that construction work will narrow the one place on the bridge path that's even remotely close to comfortably wide.
April 1, 2015
Need to Add a Bike Lane to a Bridge? Experiment Like Pittsburgh Did
The Pro Walk Pro Bike Pro Place 2014 conference took place this week in Pittsburgh. Even though the Andy Warhol Bridge already has a nice shared bike-ped path on it, for one week the city decided to put bike lanes on its roadway. It's the simplest design you can imagine, just two rows of small traffic barriers and a little bit of signage. I compiled a few moments of footage while walking to an event one night.
September 12, 2014
Safer, Saner Brooklyn Bridge Entrance on Track for Next Year
After years of planning and advocacy, an effort to improve the dangerous, ugly asphalt expanse on the Brooklyn side of the Brooklyn Bridge is set to take a big step forward tonight. Community Board 2 is meeting to vote on a resolution in support of a plan to expand space for walking and biking, realign car lanes, and add trees [PDF] that cleared its transportation committee with a unanimous 7-0 vote last month. Construction on the first phase is on track to begin as soon as the end of this year.
February 12, 2014
Council Members Propose Widening Brooklyn Bridge Bike-Ped Path
Council Members Brad Lander, Margaret Chin, and Stephen Levin -- along with advocates from Transportation Alternatives -- stood at the Manhattan entrance to the Brooklyn Bridge this morning and put forth a proposal to expand the bridge's increasingly popular and exceedingly cramped bike and pedestrian path.
August 7, 2012
Shocking Video From the Brooklyn Bridge “War Path”
Earlier this week we showed Doug Gordon's incredibly dull video from our ride over the Manhattan Bridge with a member of the Daily News editorial board, a mind-numbingly mundane scene that the paper nevertheless characterized as a "battleground."
August 18, 2011
Eyes on the Street: A Clearer Path for the Adams Street Bike Lane?
A reader sends this shot of the freshly paved surface of Adams Street, heading toward the Brooklyn Bridge just south of Johnson Street. The parking regulations have switched sides, so it looks like the old curbside bike lane on the right side of the street -- a notorious double-parking zone -- will be shifting over, either all the way to the left curb or between the parking lane and the moving lane. We have a request in with DOT to find out what the plan is.
May 25, 2011
The Efficient Past and Wasteful Present of the Brooklyn Bridge
In the headlines this morning, we linked to a great historical photo of the approach to the Brooklyn Bridge on Brownstoner, and it's taking a closer look at the full implications of the shot. Not for nostalgia's sake, but to make a cool, calculated appraisal of the efficiency of this piece of transportation infrastructure, as currently configured.
April 11, 2011
Construction Narrows Brooklyn Bridge Bike-Ped Path
Heads up if you bike or walk across the Brooklyn Bridge: Rehab work slated to last until 2014 is narrowing the promenade from 14 feet to 11 feet.
August 27, 2010