Traffic is crazy not sure if it will help anyway.
thats because of the increase in car ownership and thus car traffic.
Eric Adams bikes to work on second day in office: ‘On the road again!’ (A.K.A The NY Bike thread)
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thats because of the increase in car ownership and thus car traffic.
Citi Bike Finally Comes to Sunnyside And Woodside, Docking Stations Now Being Installed - Sunnyside Post
June 23, 2022 By Christian Murray Citi Bike has finally come to Sunnyside and Woodside. Several of the 70-plus docking stations planned for the area have
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Citi Bike Finally Comes to Sunnyside And Woodside, Docking Stations Now Being Installed
A Citi Bike docking station was installed Wednesday at the intersection of Van Dam Street and Review Avenue at Veterans Memorial (Photo courtesy of Thomas J Mituzas)
June 23, 2022 By Christian Murray
Citi Bike has finally come to Sunnyside and Woodside.
Several of the 70-plus docking stations planned for the area have been installed and the remainder are expected to be up by the end of the month. Stations went up Wednesday in the southwest portion of the district in the vicinity of Greenpoint Avenue and Van Dam Street.
The DOT released its latest map showing the 70 locations planned for Sunnyside and Woodside last week. The agency says that it is able to install the docking stations quickly since they aren’t hardwired into the ground.
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Each station will have approximately 20 bike docks, although the stations near transit locations are likely to be bigger. The DOT has not disclosed how many parking spaces will be lost as a result of the stations.
A Citi Bike station has been installed at Bradley Avenue and Greenpoint Avenue by Bantry Bay, the popular bar/restaurant (Photo courtesy of Thomas J Mituzas)
Lisa Morasco, a senior planner with the DOT, presented the plan at Community Board 2’s Transportation Committee in February.
She said at the time that the Sunnyside and Woodside locations were selected based on outreach conducted by DOT’s ambassador team as well as responses the agency had received from an interactive portal it had on its website.
The plan has been refined since following its February unveiling.
The DOT’s role with Citi Bike is to select sites and conduct outreach, with Lyft being in charge of the day-to-day maintenance of the service.
The DOT, Morasco said, aims to have a station every few blocks within a coverage district. The idea, she said, is to have a station within a 3-to-5-minute walk from one another.
A dock has been installed at Borden and Review Avenue (Photo courtesy of Thomas J Mituzas)
The expansion into Sunnyside and Woodside is part of the DOT’s plan to build out the bike-sharing network across New York City that began in 2013 with Phase 1 of its installation process.
Citi Bike first came to Queens in 2015 under Phase 2 with docking stations in Long Island City. The network was then extended into Astoria and the far reaches of Long Island City in 2017. It was extended once again into northwest Astoria and East Elmhurst at the beginning for 2021.
The Sunnyside/Woodside stations are part of Phase 3 that is extending into Maspeth, Middle Village, Elmhurst, Jackson Heights, and Corona– as well as deeper into the other boroughs.
The DOT released a draft plan for the Maspeth/Middle Village area earlier this year and anticipates installing bikes in that area later this summer.
Brushing up: City rolls out smaller street sweepers to clear NYC’s protected bike lanes | amNewYork
The city's debuted smaller-sized street sweepers to regularly clear debris from the Big Apple's more than 100 miles of protected bike lanes.
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Brushing up: City rolls out smaller street sweepers to clear NYC’s protected bike lanes
By Kevin DugganBrushing up: City rolls out smaller street sweepers to clear NYC’s protected bike lanes | amNewYork
Posted on July 5, 2022
DSNY Commissioner Jessica Tisch shows off the smaller street sweeper during a tour with community and ethnic media at DSNY’s Spring Street garage on May 4.
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They’re making some sweeping changes!
The city’s Department of Sanitation debuted smaller-sized street cleaning vehicles Monday night to regularly clear debris from the Big Apple’s more than 100 miles of protected bike lanes.
Six compact sweepers equipped with new mechanical brushes rolled out on July 4 and will be able to cover all 133.5 miles of the protected cycle paths once a week, according to DSNY officials.
New York’s Strongest first launched the pint-sized vehicles last winter to plow snow from bike lanes, and has since refitted some of them with brush attachments.
Agency Commissioner Jessica Tisch showed off the new equipment during a tour with community and ethnic media at Sanitation’s Spring Street garage on the West Side of Manhattan on May 4.
“This is going to be the first time that New York City has smaller micro-operability machines that actually do the sweeping of the bike lanes, and we think that this is going to make things both cleaner for New Yorkers in general but also for the community that uses bike lanes to do their work, the deliveries, this is going to make it also much safer for them,” Tisch told reporters at the time, according to a video clip posted on Twitter by the local news blog the Roosevelt Islander.
DSNY currently has 45 of the smaller vehicles on hand, compared to its 433 full-sized sweeping trucks, according to spokesperson Vincent Gragnani.
The agency will get four more broom attachments for a total of 10 later this summer.
They need fewer brushes than plows because DSNY has to clear lanes quicker after snowfall compared to regular sweeps of only once or twice a week, Gragnani said.
The city has allocated $6.7 million to buy the equipment and another $2.8 million to staff the mini machines.
Cycling boosters have long lobbied the city to clear the growing roster of green-painted lanes.
“It’s great news that these things are on the street,” said Jon Orcutt, director of advocacy for the group Bike New York.
The new vehicles will also allow the Department of Transportation to build bike lanes narrower so they can’t be blocked by cars, the advocate noted.
“What we’re hoping is we’ll see more car-proof bike lane design come out,” Orcutt said. “Today we have so-called protected bike lanes, say on Grand Street in Williamsburg or on Northern Boulevard in Queens, but they’re 11 feet wide and they’re just full of cars and trucks all day.”
DOT in the past has claimed it couldn’t install physical barriers on narrower bike paths, because it still needs to keep them wide enough to accommodate street sweepers and snow plows, Streetsblog reported.
“We are actively working with our partnering agencies and welcome the use of new vehicles that will help keep bike lanes clear,” said DOT spokesperson Tomas Garita in a statement. “We understand the need to design bike lanes to be clear for cyclists’ safe, comfortable use and we’ll continue working on projects like Better Barriers to find new ways to build protected infrastructure.”
The agency may already be shifting gears.
Transportation officials proposed a 5-foot bike lane bordered by a solid barrier as a possible redesign along McGuinness Boulevard in northern Brooklyn, according to a June 30 presentation to the local community board.
The design “[c]reates barrier protected bicycle lane with [a] combination of materials used to prevent blockage,” the slides read.
A DOT proposal to redesign McGuinness Boulevard in Brooklyn shows a narrow protected bike lane.
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I walk around a little edgy already
NYCHA considers ban on storing e-bikes inside its buildings
The proposal is under a public comment period.
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NYCHA considers ban on storing e-bikes inside its buildings
BY PATRICK ADCROFT NEW YORK CITY
PUBLISHED 8:52 AM ET JUL. 08, 2022
The New York City Public Housing Authority is considering a new rule that would ban tenants and guests from storing electric bikes inside its 177,000 apartments across the city.
The move comes after a series of fires that were caused by e-bike batteries. While the proposed rule is meant to improve safety, advocates say it could create challenges for food delivery workers who rely on e-bikes for their jobs and who often store them in their living space.
The proposed policy will undergo a public comment period until Sept. 6, at which point the housing authority said it will review and consider stakeholder feedback before issuing a final policy, a NYCHA spokesperson said Thursday.
Originally, NYCHA had planned for the public comment period to run until July 10, before issuing its decision by Aug. 15.
According to the FDNY, 104 fires across the city were sparked by lithium-ion batteries last year. As of July 7, the city has seen another 104 fires caused by lithium-ion batteries since the start of 2022.
A NYCHA spokesperson said there have been 25 lithium-ion fire investigations in NYCHA buildings since Jan. 1, 2021, including eight so far this year.
One NYCHA resident told NY1 reporter Alyssa Paolicelli that storing e-bikes inside the buildings presents too big a risk.
“That’s a tough choice, but to me, my life counts first,” said Manny Ramirez.
Meanwhile, advocacy group Transportation Alternatives, in a statement, said the city should work to develop a solution for e-bike storage in NYCHA buildings rather than ban them altogether.
“Instead of a ban, we would urge the Adams administration to come to the table with solutions like building out secure bike parking and public e-bike charging,” the statement read. “This infrastructure would be a real win for residents of NYCHA developments and all New Yorkers across the five boroughs.”
Los Deliveristas Unidos/Workers Justice Project, which represents app delivery workers in New Yok City, could not immediately be reached for comment.
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