Tag: protected bike lanes

The city wants to reconfigure parts of Lincoln Square to make it safer for pedestrians, potentially redesigning streets, sidewalks and curbs in the area

Sorry, bike lane haters. The Upper West Side has elected a very bike-friendly council member. Helen Rosenthal proved her allegiances

A community board committee voted 7-0 Tuesday night to ask the city Department of Transportation to come up with a proposal for a protected bike lane and other changes

Now that Columbus Avenue has a southbound protected bike lane from 110th street to 65th, the community board is considering where to put a northbound lane. Bike lane advocates are pushing for a lane that runs on Amsterdam Avenue from 59th

A community board transportation committee meeting on Tuesday night will address a hot-button issue: how should the Upper West Side change its major avenues to make them safer? The discussion is not specifically about bike lanes, but its likely to focus on them. Bike lane advocates are pushing for a ...

We've noticed some early confusion about the protected bike lanes on Columbus Avenue, which are being extended from 110th street to 65th street after initially

The Columbus Avenue protected bike lane will soon extend all the way from 110th street to 65th, instead of stopping at 96th and 77th streets. The extension was approved by Community Board 7 in February, and construction got started last week, according to a release from the community board. The ...

By Shannon Ayala After debating for more than three hours on Tuesday night, Community Board 7 passed a resolution to extend the Columbus Avenue bike lane from 59th to 110th streets. For now, the lane runs from 96th to 77th streets, leaving bicyclists right back in traffic once they get ...

By Shannon Ayala An Upper West Side community board committee will once again try to decide whether to extend the Columbus Avenue protected bike lane tonight, after a vote last month on the lane ended in deadlock. The meeting starts at 7 p.m. Tuesday night at Goddard Riverside Center at ...

Some advocates for bike lanes now want to disregard whatever the Upper West Side's community board might have to say and have the city install bike lanes by the mayor's executive fiat. Bike lane advocates are frustrated that the community board has been slow to approve extension to the bike ...

By Shannon Ayala A community board committee was split on whether the abbreviated bike lanes on Columbus Avenue should be extended to cover the full length of the Upper West Side, and said they needed

The Columbus Avenue protected bike lanes now run from 96th to 77th Streets, meaning the lanes basically peter out on both their North and South ends, leaving bicyclists in the midst of traffic. That's been a big concern for bicycling advocates, who say that the Upper West Side has been ...

The protected bike lanes on Columbus Avenue from 96th to 77th Streets start and end nowhere. They don't link up with other north-south bike paths, so people riding on them need to rejoin car traffic at either end. Bicycling activists are pissed off about this -- they think the local ...

For all you two-wheeled warriors out there in the neighborhood (and those who love and hate them), there's a lot of news you should know about. Let's review:

Bicycles may be mostly peaceful instruments, but talking about bicycles is a full-contact sport on the Upper West Side. On Tuesday night, the DOT presented stats for the Columbus Avenue protected bike lanes from 77th to 96th Street, claiming that since the lanes were installed the avenue has had 34% ...

September 14, 2011 Weather: Isolated Thunderstorms, High of 80 Degrees. Notices: Councilwoman Gale Brewer is surveying Upper West Siders about their thoughts on the Columbus Avenue protected bike lanes. Fill out the survey here. Margaret Marrer, a 7th grade teacher from the Upper West Side, is posting to a blog ...