Chelsea Piers has asked the city/Hudson River Park to renew its lease
The Park advisory group has essentially said: No lease renewal without fixing the greenway bottleneck: “the current allocation of space on the east side of the Piers to 3 lanes of vehicle traffic is excessive”
OK here’s our substantially corrected look at Brooklyn Bridge bike volume
#opendata
counts following Sept advent of the new roadway bikeway h/t
@bdhowald
(sorry for confusion this weekend - the old promenade counter continues to count)
The
#bikenyc
numbers speak for themselves!
The new round of bike lane “hardenings” announced Saturday will be
🚲 20th St in Brooklyn, part of the bike boulevard
🚲 Northern Blvd, 41st Ave to Honeywell St
🚲 Grand St Brooklyn
🚲 60th St, 1st to York Aves
🚲 Southern Boulevard Bronx
Yet there’s still no honest way to say NYC is “bike friendly”. Everyone loves easy talk of numbers, but so many “protected” bike lanes look like this every day, and absolutely no one is tackling or working this problem
@NYCMayor
“In 2013, the city had about 830 miles of bicycle lanes. Only 30 miles of protected lanes were on streets. Now the city has 1,500 miles of bicycle lanes, with more than 200 miles of protected lanes on streets.”
Hi
@NYC_DOT
, how long will these pinch-points remain on the Williamsburg Bridge bikeway? They cut capacity in half at 6 or so places now. Peak cycling season is here
Some of these have been in place for months, yet your crews are rarely present. There’s gotta be a better way
4th Ave should be one of BK’s flagship 🚲 lanes
But for several reasons, it feels like a disaster waiting to happen
A big one is widespread 🚙 parking on “refuge” islands, killing visibility where cars turn right across the bike lane
This is from 1 ride on Friday
Some new pieces of Broadway: adding up to the Great Green Way?
Bway is our original Low Traffic Corridor, thx to cutting off thru traffic @ Times & Herald Squares and squeezing it at Madison & Union
Note wiiiide
#bikenyc
accommodation & overall low stress environment
At 41st:
“she finds many protected lanes on her route are actually impassible”
Bravo for this piece
@WCBSTV
. Failure of many of NYC’s protected bike lanes deserves a lot more coverage
“we need protected bike lanes — with safety barriers that work and physically keep cars out,” says
@KGforNYC
“When I think about bike safety, I think about my son, who bikes to work. I think about delivery workers for whom a safe bike lane isn’t optional”
NYC “is considering carving out temporary bike lanes and taking away traffic lanes from cars by using orange cones or movable barriers. More parking areas for bikes may be designated on sidewalks and in pedestrian plazas.”
@nytimes
@NYC_DOT
I rode my bike up to the Bronx to celebrate the $7.25M we secured from
@USDOT
to expand NYC's greenways network!
This funding will help plan protected bike lanes and greenways and ensure New Yorkers from ALL communities have safe ways to get around the city.
Better street design has made Queens Blvd, once known as the "Boulevard of Death," much safer
We've received a $29M grant to make our temporary improvements permanent. They’ve helped reduce deaths & serious injuries from Roosevelt Ave to 73rd St
Details:
It’s time to make some noise 📢📢📢
#bikenyc
!!!
We hear the
@MTA
is urging
@GovKathyHochul
to veto the
#MTABikeAcess
bill 😡
The bill was approved in June by the State Senate & Assembly
It requires the MTA to create a 🚲 strategic plan, including for bridges & bike parking
This funding is from
@USDOT
’s RAISE discretionary grant program.
@NYC_DOT
applied for the $7M+ amount to plan NEW greenway rights of way in the city. The work is pivotal for greenway expansion & we’re grateful for
@SenSchumer
’s work to take the application over the line
Big News for NYC:
We secured $7.25 million in funding from
@USDOT
to expand New York City's majestic greenway system!
I love riding my bike down the waterfront, and I am excited to bring greenways to communities that deserve them all across NYC.
Adam should have been with us Sunday for a perfect 5 Boro Tour. Instead it’s another family, another set of lives shattered in a city that refuses to manage the chaos on its streets
Know what’s working in NYC transportation now? Not transit finances. Not pop up
#bikenyc
lanes.
The numbers are in, and it’s
@CitiBikeNYC
.
CitiBike just set a new July ridership level, *exceeding* last year’s record high despite almost no office commutes
The new downtown-on-Broadway
#bikenyc
route through Herald Square is more straightforward & easier, and is especially good south of 34th. It will always be an exercise in 🚲-pedestrian harmony
@NYC_DOT
We're thrilled to announce that
@andrewyang
has been confirmed as a panelist at our upcoming New York City Mayoral Candidates Forum! To register for this free virtual town hall, visit 🚴
NYC needs a new conversation about bike lanes — one in which an interconnected, safe bike network is assumed as official policy and a standard feature of streets, & where city government engages in public dialogue over details but doesn’t seek permission to proceed
It’s great new
@NYC_DOT
Commissioner Rodriquez’ 1st announcement was on improving
#bikenyc
lane quality! We’ve relentlessly hammered that theme in 2021
Let’s go out this week recommending spots that need *protected* barrier treatments!
Here’s one: Queens Blvd in Rego Park
The new Brooklyn Bridge bikeway continues to register impressive volume gains, with 70% more 🚲 crossing this November vs the clogged up promenade a year ago
#bikenyc
#opendata
Where the bike path meets highway — a NYC classic
(Note the 🚴 facing the camera have almost no ability to see oncoming highway traffic)
@ GCP-Whitestone Expressway ramp! Development of 34th Ave into a more attractive
#bikenyc
route makes a disaster here more likely
It’s depressing that the city continues to implement this “protected”
#bikenyc
lane design despite the utterly predictable results each time. Where is the innovation? Where is the problem solving?
Hi
@ericadamsfornyc
, we were proud to join your call for protected
#bikenyc
lanes on Navy St
Now CB2 opposes it, causing
@NYC_DOT
to vacillate. We need you to weigh in.
A great chance to show how you will resolve such conflicts & deliver many more 🚲 lanes if elected mayor!
Did you know? The MTA’s $55 billion capital program has no plan for linking 🚲 to 🚊 & does not provide a dime for making MTA bridges like the Triboro, VNB, Henry Hudson or Marine Park 🚲-accessible
There’s a bill in Albany to change this. We need your help now to push it thru
With congestion pricing projected to substantially reduce 🚘 traffic volume in & around NYC’s central business district,
@NYC_DOT
&
@NYCMayor
should develop a plan to use some of the resulting *street space dividend* to close gaps in & improve the core
#bikenyc
network
This federal lifeline for the
@MTA
is essential for allowing New York to recover without worsening gridlock or further chaos on our streets. Thanks to
@SenSchumer
I fought for mass transit in this
#COVIDrelief
bill for riders and workers
I'm proud we succeeded for transit systems across America
I’m proud to deliver more than $4 billion in relief for
@MTA
Thank you to all of the riders and workers who stood together to make this possible
The NY State Legislature approved the
#MTABikeAccess
bill, but it still needs the Governor’s signature!
Our coalition wrote to
@GovKathyHochul
recently asking her sign the bill. It will require the
@MTA
to create a 🚲 strategic plan covering bridge access, 🚲 parking & more
Daily condition of the main 🚲 route into Williamsburg from the Williamsburg Bridge. This is the opposite of public safety
@NYCMayor
. Why not fix it?
@CMJenGutierrez
Did you know?
The
@MTA
2020-2024 capital program for bridges is over $3 billion.
Not a dime is slated to make 🚲 possible on any of the MTA’s 7 bridges. They all ban bikes
One big reason we need
@GovKathyHochul
to sign the
#MTABikeAccessBill
#bikenyc
More good news! The legislation we proposed to require an MTA strategy for bikes on its bridges & bike parking at stations was approved yesterday by the NY State Senate transportation committee
#129years
ago today, June 15, 1894, Ocean Parkway bike path, first in the US, opened. Pandemic-delayed repairs to the bike path funded in 2019 by former CM
@MarkTreyger718
are finally underway!
📷 Sheet music for New York & Coney Island Cycle March Two-Step
@nypl_lpa
One big issue facing
#Greenways4NYC
is the poor condition & age-old design of older facilities. Ocean Parkway was America’s first bike path, implemented in the 1890s. Other early NYC greenways were developed during creation of park & parkway systems in the 1st half of the 1900s
All NYC bike riders - recreational, commuters, fitness, delivery, racers and those just trying to get efficiently from A to B - ride the same city streets. We all need New York to stop killing cyclists. Bike New York supports Tuesday’s action & urges all who can to attend
.
@NYCParks
&
@NYC_DOT
officials last night revealed a roughly $105 million greenway upgrade & connectivity program for eastern Queens. The Destination Greenways plan would expand bike/walk pathways through key parks & connect them w protected bike lanes
What? Come on
1. Not illegal, DOT & DSNY have been fine with sign pole 🚲 parking forever
2. Pales in comparison to rampant illegal 🚘 parking in bike lanes, travel lanes, sidewalks & more everywhere in town. When’s the last time any
@NYPDnews
unit did a thing about that?
Update: The TD Five Boro Bike Tour has been postponed by the Mayor's Office due to impending Tropical Storm Henri. Working with city officials, we have secured a new date of August 29. We will be informing riders of next steps via email and on our website.
Citizen parking enforcement is a proposal born from frustration with city government’s unwillingness or incapacity to meet the scale of NYC’s illegal parking problem
@LincolnRestler
@CityLab
#bikenyc
social media is nothing if not a constant stream of images of unrideable bike lanes created by the de Blasio administration.
What are you even doing
@NYC_DOT
bike program?
Your Hoyt Street 🚲 Green Wave in effect! It works! (Strava gave this run a 13.6 mph avg speed). The street is primarily controlled by stop signs south of Baltic
A few years ago,
@NYC_DOT
said no to barriers for this bad stretch of 2nd Ave in the 60s because street sweepers were too wide
Now the city has skinny street sweepers purpose-built for such cases, but no 🚲 lanes designed accordingly. How bout it DOT? 2nd Ave barriers this year?
.
@NYC_DOT
has responded to our concerns about Brooklyn’s 4th Ave saying 🚘 🚙 🚗 flow is more important than 🚲 safety so removal of the lane in Sunset Park is OK. Their response ignored chronically blocked corner islands & incomplete markings/door zone problem
@BikeSouthBklyn
3 years ago
@NYC_DOT
’s commissioner stood on Brooklyn’s 4th Ave amid a wave of cycling deaths to announce acceleration of the protected bike lane project.
Now the city has begun long term rebuild of 4th Ave & the 1st casualty? The protected 🚲 lane - see its erasure here
NYC invented the modern parking-protected 🚲 lane (2007, 9th Ave) but a lot of places do them better now.
Count Toronto as a city using physical elements to ensure separation of parking & bike lanes
Your two-way protected Kent Avenue bike path! (North 3rd St).
How is this supposed to be safe and functional this winter
@NYC_DOT
? Better luck next season?
@NYPDTips
@nyc311
Vernon Blvd between 39th and 40th Avenue man seen removing bollards that separate bicycle lanes from car lanes. Please install concrete barriers like other cities have done to protect cyclists from drivers who want to go down bicycle lanes. Thank you!
New 🚲 parking corral deployed as daylighting at 34th Ave/69th St Queens
(Daylighting = physically blocking 🚘 parking @ corners to preserve sight lines at intersections for all street users)
The
#MTABikeAccess
bill will turn into a 🎃 at year’s end without
@GovKathyHochul
’s signature!
All we want for the holidays Governor is the
@MTA
to start planning for 🚲!
It’s a gridlock crisis. It’s an equity crisis. It’s a climate crisis. It’s not too much to ask!
#bikenyc
We need
@NYC_DOT
to launch a *bike lane inspection team* to enforce construction permits, call in other blockages, get holes & cracks fixed and get on top of faded
#bikenyc
markings
#Bikenyc
is showing up for Robyn Hightman’s
#ghostbike
installation at 23rd and 6th. They was killed by a truck driver on Monday morning, but the driver was not charged.
#JusticeForRobyn
Cars & 🚚 don’t yield space in crowded cities to 🚲 because it’s a good idea. They do it when city authorities physically define and dedicate space for bike riding
#bikenyc