Open plans for your cycling summer
Summer has arrived! Soon enough, you’ll be seeing blue. Thousands of blue bicycles.
The bike station map arrives
Today, the city released the locations of the much anticipated stations for the new bike share program, as shown on an interactive map. As noted…
Bike month rolls on through May
New Yorkers still have more than half of May left to get involved in bike month.
New York’s hidden green secret
A talk on Earth Day pulled back the curtain on something we thought we all knew: the MTA. Almost as inherent to MTA city travel as the sound of screeching brakes is the griping and groaning we do while on board.
Details Emerge on Future NYC Bike Share
NYC Bike Share, the largest bike sharing program in the U.S. is scheduled to launch this July, just a little over two months away. It will consist of 10,000 bikes and 600 stations located throughout the city.
Although the plan has been in the works for some time, new details have recently been revealed.
New Bike Lane for Central Park
According to Streetsblog, Central Park will be gaining another bike lane, and losing a traffic lane in its place. The path will be along 72nd Street, and will run between Central Park West and Fifth Avenue.
Would you like MTA’s entire art collection in the palm of your hand?
MTA Arts for Transit and Urban Design recently launched the officially licensed app that provides comprehensive information about the wide variety of permanent artwork installed…
NYTimes: “Making Cities Safer for Cyclists and Pedestrians”
To have a more sustainable, livable city, we must make the streets safe and accessible for pedestrians and bikers – cars should not be allowed to rule the streets.
New Congestion Charge in Milan
Following in London and Stockholm’s footsteps, Milan has recently introduced a new congestion charge in an effort to reduce traffic – and the initial results…
Bike Share Planning Workshops Begin To Locate Stations
When New York City’s bike share program rolls out in July, the rental bikes will be spread out across 600 stations. To choose the best…
How the Dutch got their bike paths
Sometimes it looks easy when you visit a European city with great urban planning. But that doesn’t mean it was easy — even in Amsterdam,…
Projjal Dutta
“New York is livable–it is more than livable, it’s wonderful — because of density. And not just the density of people, but I think the density of opportunity.”
Bicentennial of Manhattan’s Master Plan
A new exhibit at the Museum of the City of New York celebrates the Commissioner’s Plan of 1811, the original plan for Manhattan’s street grid,…
More Cyclists = Safer Streets
A question for the purported defenders of pedestrian safety who sit on the editorial boards at the Daily News and the Post.
NYC’s most-used turnstile- Guess Where it is
The most-used turnstile of the most-used transportation system in the country.
Subway Platform Cell Service Starts This Week, The Future is Now
The Future Is Coming: Subway Platform Cell Service Starts Tuesday: Gothamist It is the end of an era. Last October the MTA announced a plan…
Enabling Crowdsourced City Construction
Plans for a website where concerned citizens could post proposals to project profiles with information and imagery for city projects.
Break through on Second Avenue Subway
Workers completed tunneling for the first phase of the Second Avenue Subway on Sept. 22, 2011, when the project’s tunnel boring machine reached the Lexington Av-63 St station, breaking into the existing subway system.