"This pattern described in the Transportation Alternatives research aligns with broader international findings: cycling participation increases when infrastructure is safe, continuous, and predictable—and decreases when it is fragmented."
The Bike Lane Gender Gap: New Research Shows Women Ride More Where Protected Infrastructure Exists.
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PM Peak hour there are more people than cars on 9th ave.
Setting aside that peak bike traffic here is probably in the morning - this gets closer to equitable allocation of street space. There is good attention to detail in this presentation.
NYC DOT just moments ago presented a plan for more bike + pedestrian space on 9th Ave - a street I ride on daily - to Manhattan CB4.
A 9' wide bike lane provides space for passing - and DOT deserves credit for widening bike lanes in manhattan in the past few years.
Idea: eliminate all parking on one side of every street and install a vast network of curbside, 14-foot wide protected emergency vehicle lanes that can be used by people on bikes when there isn't an emergency.
Gotta call bullshit. Note how this concern is never brought up for one-way, one-lane streets with no bike lane with parking on both sides leaving no room for drivers to pull over to make way for emergency vehicles. Same thing with big arterials such as Flatbush or Atlantic that are often jammed.
If we want to be a truly world-class biking city, we need a network that actually works: no more dead ends, missing links, and gaping omissions.
🚲 Tell DOT Commissioner Flynn to close the gaps in NYC’s bike network — sign our petition now: act.transalt.org/a/no-gaps
New York has hundreds of miles of protected bike lanes. But they don’t connect.
A bike lane shouldn’t just… end. But too often it does — dumping riders into traffic, whether it’s for a block or an entire neighborhood.
“We’re bringing the Streets Master Plan back to life,” Mayor Mamdani announced in a February 13 press conference relaunching pedestrian, bike, and bus projects stalled by the Adams administration.
Here's what we're expecting from the Streets Plan 2.0:
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The map of the line
Here's an example of what hit the cutting room floor because it simply costs too much. (The crazy idea)
A Northern Blvd-30 Ave-Fifth Ave-McGuinness/Graham-Utica Avenue subway line.
It's a whale of a project, running some 20 miles from end to end. It's got a lot of things that I really like.
Summer Streets is one of New York City’s most popular attractions — a remarkable feat in a city known for its entertainment, and a testament to the simple delight of a car-free street!
It's time to grow Summer Streets into the spring, fall, and evenings, with:
NYCICLOVIA
It's not every day you get to be on the bus with the mayor!
Bus riders in the Bronx deserve the best possible streets to get buses moving faster. On Day 44, the Mamdani administration is committing to unsticking stalled projects like Fordham Road — this is just the beginning!
thank you bad bunny for highlighting the importance of critical power distribution infrastructure bsky.app/profile/cost...
All I’ll say is we didn’t have a winter like this for all of Bill de Blasio's eight years since he put the fear of FUCKING GOD into the groundhogs.
The 5 Boro Pizza Challenge is back and cheesier than ever! On Saturday, May 9, this multi-modal adventure invites you to explore all five boroughs in a single day, eating at five epic pizzerias, using any mode of transportation — except, NO cars!
Register now: www.zeffy.com/en-US/ticket...
Families for Safe Streets member Joe Jankoski went on WNYC last week to talk about Stop Super Speeders.
To slow down reckless drivers and save lives, Albany must pass the program into law this spring.
"First launched in 1974, CiclovĂa is a program that shuts down city streets to cars once a week, on Sundays, and opens them to people walking and biking... In a city of 9 million, some 2 million residents of the city participate every week."
When NYC DOT began its mission to transform NYC streets, it issued a lot of strong policy docs & updates on city transportation trends. We need to get back to that
Consider 2008's critique of NYC's underdeveloped public realm (with Gehl Architects), or the annual Sustainable Streets Index
Speed limiters for reckless drivers is a no brainer for safe streets. Let's hope this happens in NYC and the rest of the state very soon!
🙌🏼 Let's go!
BOOM
Governor Hochul will be advancing “Stop Super Speeders” through the budget - a major step forward for this common sense life-saving safety measure.
empire.streetsblog.org/state-of-the-s…
Listen to our Executive Director, @bfurnas.bsky.social, on @benmax.bsky.social's podcast this morning!
"Right out of the gate, [Mayor Mamdani's] describing a much more expansive and ambitious vision for the streets."
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Founding StreetsPAC board member @kencoughlin.bsky.social!
Ken Coughlin joined the campaign for a car-free Central Park in 1991 and led it from 1996 until the last car exited the park in 2018.
Watch his presentation at the New York Society for Ethical Culture: youtu.be/jPQ4rVvS3io?...
"When I was interviewing [DOT Commissioner Mike Flynn], we did not simply ask him about fulfilling that which has already been put forward. We asked him, what will it take to make this city the envy of the world when it comes to our streetscape?" — Mayor Mamdani youtube.com/shorts/69h0m...
"I'm so sorry that we could not have done this earlier...to have saved the loved ones in your life. But I thank you fopr the work that you have done...to ensure that this pain not be felt by others who call this same city home." — Mayor Mamdani at McGuinness Blvd. presser youtube.com/shorts/uwAYI...
NEW: Mayor Mamdani chose the third full day of his tenure to announce that he will complete the full safety redesign of deadly McGuinness Boulevard in Greenpoint — a project that was created under Mayor Bill de Blasio, but watered down by Mayor Adams in a corruption scandal. buff.ly/T2rESWz
“Mr. Adams was required by law…to create 150 miles of bus lanes with barriers or camera enforcement and 250 miles of protected bike lanes over 5 years, a task that now falls to Mr. Mamdani….In the last 4 years, the city installed about 28 miles of bus lanes and 95 miles of protected bike lanes.”
