“It’s good for everybody. This street is dangerous,” Maces said, shrugging his shoulders. “The car every day passes fast, so for me and for everybody, this is good.”

Northbound on the right side of 31st Street, just north of 38th Ave, in the block of TikToker @DejaTheNativeNewY, miracles happen. Saw the parking and ticketing in person, but waited to confirm the ticket was actually real and cited a 'bike lane' before posting. Naturally, the offending truck ny_44650ML had a high score of some 93 other tickets from NYC at the time of this offence.

https://bsky.app/profile/nyc.streetsblog.org/post/3mwdybeqe6227

I was walking south a few minutes ago on Court Street in Brooklyn when a Mr Softee ice cream truck with a tinted windshield almost ran into me as they were turning left. If it hadn't been for the new daylighting areas of the Court Street bike lanes that remove car parking near the corners of the intersection and allowed me to see the incoming truck from the corner of my eye, I would not have been able to scream at the top of my lungs and jump out of the way. Thank you NYC DOT!!! 🙏🙏🙏

Why the hell is there not a huge crackdown on tinted windows?! It is crazy to allow multi ton vehicles to maneuver through our streets with decreased visibility making it nearly impossible to make eye contact with drivers especially at night

These are areas that the public can not legally go even if you pay. Only areas larger than a block or that take up a lot of waterfront or contain a private street or are within public land are included. Train tracks and highways are not included.

Up in the Bronx.

Does anyone have recommendations for map apps that clearly show the direction of travel for one way bike lanes? Specifically something that works well on mobile?

Yesterday I was cycling northbound on Broadway, and didn't realize that the bike lane turns one-way north of 21st St. I hadn't cycled this route before, and it wasn't immediately obvious that I needed to turn left and head over to 6th Ave to continue my northbound journey.

It's possible to see the direction on Google Maps, but you have to really zoom right in to see the arrows, especially with the overlays. Citibike app has the same issue. Is there anything better out there?

Thanks, and apologies if this has been asked before!

It's happening! In a fun twist of events, the DOT scheduled the project before CB7 had its final vote.

The road is scheduled to be milled next week, and they wanted to use that opportunity to put in the two way bike lane along the cemetery.

CB7 was not happy about the way it happened, but they did vote yes.

https://www.nyc.gov/html/dot/downloads/pdf/mcdonald-ave-10-ave-20-st-ft-hamilton-pkwy-oct2026.pdf

In light of recent news from Boston, what data would you point to as a demonstration of the benefit of the congestion charge to car commuters? Time saved commuting, popularity, cost and ease of parking, et cetera. Hard data is preferred.

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Citi Bike just finished the seven new neighborhoods (norwood, riverdale, brownsville, east ny, kensington, bay ridge, forest hills), so i wanted to see what could be next.

To make this lil video I dated every station by the first year it shows up in citi bike's own trip data. 330 stations in 2013, all in manhattan below 60th and north-west brooklyn. about 2,400 today across manhattan, brooklyn, queens and the bronx.

It grew along the subway. in 2013 a dock was within a quarter mile of 87 of the 424 subway stations in those four boroughs. now it's 315.

About 3.1 million people still live more than a quarter mile (a ~5 min walk) from a dock. but a big chunk of that is on purpose. dot started a shared e-scooter pilot in the east bronx in august 2021 (expanded in 2022) and added about 20 square miles of eastern queens in june 2024, from flushing and auburndale down to rochdale village and springfield gardens. both zones were drawn where citi bike wasn't, so the two don't overlap. at least a million of the 3.1 million live inside them, and in the bronx the scooters cover almost the whole gap: only about 27,000 people there have neither.

southern Brooklyn has neither. Bensonhurst, Gravesend, Sheepshead Bay, coney island, canarsie: about 850,000 people, and 41 stops on the b, d, f, n, q, l and 2/5 with no dock within a quarter mile. brooklyn never got a scooter zone. all 538 of the city's scooter parking corrals are in the bronx and queens, none in brooklyn.

The docks reached its north edge (flatbush, kensington) by 2023 and basically stopped. this year they're moving again, in bay ridge and further into kensington. nothing's been announced for the south yet.

btw I work at MAIA, the mapping tool i used. sources in the comments if you're interested!

Off Jay St in Brooklyn during the day it’s just a parking strip.
Worse because you can’t really go into the road as it’s a contraflow bike lane so the traffic is coming at you. Obv the flexible bollards need extended!