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A Bike Lane Grows Uptown
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Garth Johnston
Published Nov 27, 2005
Modified Mar 7, 2008
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If there is one thing we love to hear about, that would be the creation of more dedicated bike lanes in the city. So how happy were we when we found this article in this weeks Villager? Pretty happy. We won't be ecstatic till everything is final, but things are definitely looking optimistic.
The deal: Last week the Transportation Committee of Community Board 4 voted 8-0 to send the full board a proposal for an extended bike lane from the Village to Midtown up Eighth Avenue. Where the bike lane on Eighth currently stops at 14th, if the full board passes the proposal in December it will continue all the way up to 57th Street only breaking for the Port Authority from 39th to 42nd.
How fast can all of this happen? Since the lane has been in the works for quite some time (it was first envisioned in the city's 1997 Bicycle Master Plan), within the next year. The Department of Transportation is fully behind the idea, so now it just comes down to the C. B. 4 vote on December 7th. In the meantime, the Villager article also mentions some ideas for differentiating bike lanes from regular lanes so cars would stay out of them. One solution was painting them blue, which strikes us as a smart and seemingly obvious idea. Apparently there are a few of these blue bike lanes already in Brooklyn, anybody dealt with them?
Photograph by Jefferson Siegel for the Villager.
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