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Tonight: Crucial Meeting on Lafayette Street Protected Bike Lane
NYC DOT’s proposal for Lafayette Street and Fourth Avenue would swap the parking lane and the bike lane and slow speeding drivers with narrower motor vehicle lanes. Image: NYC DOT NYC DOT’s proposal to...
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A Safer, Saner Lafayette Street Is on Its Way This Summer After CB 2 Vote
Under the plan, a buffered bike lane would be converted to a protected bike lane with pedestrian islands. Image: DOT After a unanimous vote at its transportation committee earlier this month, Manhattan...
View ArticleAt Manhattan Vision Zero Forum, NYPD Says Better Crash Data Coming Soon
The Vision Zero town hall roadshow returned to Manhattan last night with a well-attended forum at John Jay College. Elected officials, agency representatives and the public gathered to discuss the...
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Eyes on the Street: An Early Look at the Lafayette Protected Bike Lane
Crews have been making good progress on the Lafayette Street redesign [PDF], the first protected bike lane project installed by the de Blasio administration. As of yesterday, the striping work had...
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Broadway Speed Limit to Drop to 25 MPH From Columbus Circle to Inwood
NYPD transportation chief Thomas Chan, State Senator Adriano Espaillat, DOT Commissioner Polly Trottenberg, Aaron Charlop-Powers and Audrey Anderson of Families for Safe Streets, and City Council...
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Summer Streets and (Mostly) Car-Free Central Park: Same As Last Year
It’s back, though not bigger: Summer Streets and a mostly car-free Central Park will return this summer (sorry, Prospect Park), and smaller car-free streets events in all five boroughs continue to...
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Slow Zones, Safer Arterials Win Over CBs in Manhattan and Queens
The scene at last night’s Queens CB 3 meeting at Diversity Plaza in Jackson Heights. Photo: Daniel Dromm/Twitter At its annual outdoor meeting in Diversity Plaza last night, Queens Community Board 3...
View ArticleTonight: Important Complete Streets Meetings in Manhattan and Queens
Tonight’s a big night for livable streets events, with community board meetings on proposals for Greenwich Village, the Lower East Side, and Long Island City. Plus, join Streetsblog at ARTCRANK if...
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Garodnick Endorses Complete Streets for Fifth and Sixth Avenues
The next time someone tries to tell you that complete street designs with pedestrian islands and protected bike lanes are controversial, point them to what’s happening on Fifth, Sixth, and Seventh...
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No Charges for Van Driver Who Killed Elderly Woman in Crosswalk
The day after a commercial van driver killed an elderly woman in a Manhattan crosswalk, no charges have been filed, though NYPD implied but failed to confirm that the victim had the right of way. The...
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Chinatown Biz Group Fed Up With Placard Parkers Hogging Spaces All Day
Imagine if your neighborhood’s streets were used as an employee parking lot for a nearby office building, and the people in charge of enforcing the rules turned a blind eye, day in and day out, as they...
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Trottenberg: To Reach Vision Zero Goals, DOT Will Need More Resources
After unveiling its pedestrian safety action plan for Queens yesterday, DOT released plans for Manhattan and the Bronx today. (Staten Island will come tomorrow, followed by Brooklyn.) The reports each...
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Gale Brewer Reappoints Safe Streets Foes to Manhattan Community Boards
Manhattan Borough President Gale Brewer has reappointed a slate of community board members with a long history of opposing safer streets and better transit. Brewer announced her 2015 board appointments...
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Want Safer Biking and Walking Across the Harlem River? Tell DOT Your Ideas
Residents from the Bronx and Manhattan told DOT last night how they want to improve walking and biking across the Harlem River bridges. It was the second of four Harlem River bridges workshops this...
View ArticleThe Case for 24/7 Access to the High Bridge
Video of opening day on the High Bridge: Clarence Eckerson. New York City’s bike network would be a shell of its current self without the segments that run through parks. The most heavily traveled bike...
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With Congestion Getting Worse, City Wants to Stem Flood of Uber Licenses
The de Blasio administration and the City Council want to slow the growth in new black car licenses over the next year. With companies like Uber adding tens of thousands of black cars to the mix over...
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Team de Blasio Makes Its Case for a One-Year “Uber Cap”
The scene at today’s transportation committee hearing. Photo: Stephen Miller The de Blasio administration made its case for temporarily restricting the growth of licenses for ride-hailing services like...
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Mark Your Calendars: Summer Streets Returns in August
Another summer, another edition of Summer Streets. For the eighth year, New York’s spin on Ciclovia is coming to nearly seven miles of streets on Manhattan’s east side. For three Saturdays in August —...
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Next Up for SBS: 23rd Street in Manhattan, Canarsie to Gravesend in Brooklyn
What people are saying about the B82. Image via NYC DOT Two more enhanced bus routes are entering the project pipeline in NYC, one along a busy Manhattan crosstown street and the other snaking across a...
View ArticleEyes on the Street: The First Avenue Bike Lane Gap Is Shrinking
DOT tweeted a status report this afternoon on the First Avenue protected bike lane gap. Green paint is down on the newly protected section between 49th Street and 56th Street: #1stAve protected...
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