Andrew Thompsonsneckdown: 1000 times this
#nyc #mamdani #ZohranMamdani #nycmayor #StreetsBlogNYC #nycdot
joelepsteinNYC DOT commissioner wants City to be more like Paris, Bogotá, Tokyo
(and CDMX) https://share.google/y1cDmPYh9tXbOMKz5 #busrapidtransit #brt #metrobús #nycdot
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Rob BellingerTwo days this week, a utility project was blocking a significant #bikenyc lane in #MidtownManhattan, without any temporary protected lane in place as required by law. The second day I saw this, I reported it.
Just received notice from #NYCDOT: "A notice of violation (NOV) was issued for not having diversions formulating a temporary bike pathway... as dictated in the permit stipulations for this construction”
Roadskater, Ph.D.For years, word always was that #NYCDOT would wait about three weeks after laying down street asphalt before striping the lanes because the asphalt had to "cure".
So they just resurfaced W106 St, the last couple of blocks getting paved Monday night. Lane striping on those blocks started on Friday night. Still waiting bikelane markings and some other stuff, but they did at least half of the work
Four days is the new three weeks?
NYC GlueJust wrote my observations of #CongestionPricing to #NYCDOT. "I do not know how congestion pricing is working citywide but from my apartment overlooking the West Side Highway / Henry Hudson Parkway at 104th Street, the fact that the southbound cars at 7am are moving is simply amazing. Normally at this time I would expect no movement. Congestion pricing so far is amazing.
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NYC should at least put up some very stout bollards to give some impression of safety from random acts of vehicle terror. It would be good for business. I'll suggest that to #NYCDOT.
AndresSo, like, what in the hostile architecture is up with this fence on #QueensBlvd? Is that to ensure that drivers on BOTH roads have enough space to illegally park on the curb? Is it to keep people from camping? Was someone at #NYCDOT drunk?
#NYCDOT still out here doing #VisionZero, I see.. https://pix11.com/news/local-news/man-struck-by-dot-truck-suffers-decapitation-in-brooklyn-sources/
Man struck by DOT truck decapitated in Brooklyn: sources
BROOKLYN, N.Y. (PIX11) — An 86-year-old man was fatally struck by a Department of Transportation truck in Brooklyn Wednesday afternoon, according to sources. Officers responded to a call at 3:30 p.m. for a pedestrian struck at 92nd Street and Dahlgren Place in Bay Ridge, police said. The man was crossing the street when he was […]
Cool, cool. End of August. Sure, no rush, bike lanes don't need protection or anything.
(#NYC's 311 has entries allowing you to report multiple types of 'illegal' games, but nothing for reporting any kind of unsafe bike lane situation. So you just send a generic comment to #NYCDOT Queens commissioner, which may get answered eventually..)
#BikeNYC
So I'm guessing that #NYCDOT decided to go with "20' combined travel and parking lane" because they wouldn't be able to justify 12' travel lanes (ie, highway-sized lanes).
But a 20' combined travel/parking lane *is* 8' parking and 12' travel lane. That's a choice. Just like it's also a choice to make a 2-way PBL with 4' wide bike lanes in each direction.
https://www.nyc.gov/html/dot/downloads/pdf/borden-ave-review-ave-starr-ave-may2024.pdf
