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    The Brooklyn-Queens Expressway: Time is Running Out

    Repairs and Reconstruction  •  Brooklyn-Queens Expressway

    Image Credit: NYC DOT

    One year ago, in January 2020, the Expert Panel assigned by Mayor Bill de Blasio to study the Brooklyn-Queens Expressway issued its Final Report. Mayor de Blasio in 2019 appointed the seventeen-person Expert Panel* of which I was a member, following the angry rejection of New York City DOT’s plan for reconstructing the section of the BQE adjacent to Brooklyn Heights, Dumbo and Downtown Brooklyn. City DOT presented its plan publicly September 2019. The plan caused immediate outrage. (read more…)

    Tags : Brooklyn-Queens Expressway, reconstruction, repairs, Transportation
    Date:03/29/2021
    Category : CityLaw
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    Comptroller Proposes Bike-to-School Plan for Low-Income High School Students

    Transportation  •  Citywide

    Citi Bikes at a Citi Bike Docking Station./Image Credit: CityLand

    This plan includes free bikes and Citi Bike memberships and building one and a half miles of protected bike lanes around 50 New York City high schools in the next year. On September 3, 2020, New York City Comptroller Scott Singer proposed a bike-to-school plan as a sustainable, safe, and healthy transportation option for the city’s young people returning to school this fall amid the COVID-19 pandemic and beyond. (read more…)

    Tags : Bicycles, students, Transportation
    Date:09/29/2020
    Category : Comptroller's Office
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    Busway and Bus Lane Projects Announced

    Buses  •  Citywide

    A dedicated bus lane. Image Credit: NYC DOT

    The nine projects will benefit almost 750,000 daily riders. On June 8, 2020, Mayor Bill de Blasio announced nine busway and dedicated bus lane projects across the City. As the City begins to reopen, and commuters return to work, the new bus options are intended to increase bus speeds and address vehicular traffic concerns.  (read more…)

    Tags : bus lanes, buses, busways, coronavirus, COVID-19, MTA, Phase One, Transportation
    Date:06/12/2020
    Category : Mayor
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    Citi and Mastercard Commits $1 Million to Expand Citi Bike Access for Essential Workers

    Transportation  •  Citywide

    Citi Bikes at a Citi Bike Docking Station./Image Credit: CityLand

    The expansion will allow more essential workers to use Citi Bikes during the COVID-19 pandemic. On April 30, 2020, Mayor Bill de Blasio, Department of Transportation Commissioner Polly Trottenberg, and Lyft announced that Citi and Mastercard had committed $1 million to expand the Citi Bike Critical Workforce Membership Program. The program was created by Citi Bike, Mayor Bill de Blasio, and the Department of Transportation to provide essential healthcare and transit workers a free one month Citi Bike membership. Under the expansion, the program would extend the one-month membership and will allow more categories of essential workers to apply for the program. 

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    Tags : Citi, Citibike, Commissioner Polly Trottenberg, COVID-19, Department of Transportation, Mastercard, Mayor Bill de Blasio, Transportation
    Date:05/05/2020
    Category : Office of the Mayor
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    Sunnyside Yard Master Plan Released by City and Amtrak

    Transportation  •  Sunnyside, Queens

    Image Credit: NYC EDC.

    The plan calls for 100 percent affordable housing with emphasis on lowest incomes, transportation, new parks and open space. On March 4, 2020, the New York City Economic Development Corporation announced Mayor Bill de Blasio’s and Amtrak’s Sunnyside Yard Master Plan. The Plan’s framework will focus on building new public transit and making all housing affordable, especially for New Yorkers earning less than $50,000 per year. Sunnyside Yard is bounded by Northern Boulevard to the north, Skillman Avenue to the south, Thomson Avenue to the west and 43rd Street to the east. Over the last fifteen years, Western Queens has experienced rapid growth, putting strains on infrastructure, transportation, and housing. The Sunnyside Yard Master Plan presents an opportunity to create nearly 115 acres of new public land by decking over Sunnyside Yard. (read more…)

    Tags : affordable housing, infrastructure, Long Island City, Queens, Sunnyside, Sunnyside Yard, Transportation
    Date:04/14/2020
    Category : New York City Economic Development Corporation
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    COMMENTARY: Bike Safety: Engineering, Education and Enforcement

    Ross Sandler

    Ross Sandler, Center for New York City Law Director

    The City aggressively attacks unsafe conditions for bike riders on the City’s streets and avenues, but less successfully attacks unsafe behaviors of bike riders. Unsafe conditions can mostly be engineered away, but unsafe behaviors require changes of a cultural nature. The City in 2019 experienced 28 bike rider deaths and more than 4,000 bike injuries. So far 2020 has experienced more bike injuries than in 2019. To make the City safer for bike riders, the City should aggressively enforce the traffic laws against vehicles, but also aggressively enforce the rules against bike riders who ride against traffic, ignore traffic signals, speed, or text and talk on phones while riding. (read more…)

    Tags : Bike Safety, CityLaw, CityLaw Commentary, Transportation
    Date:04/03/2020
    Category : Commentary
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