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May is Bike Month
Bike Month NYC is presented by the New York City Department of Transportation, Transportation Alternatives, Department of Parks and Recreation and Department of Health.
Enjoy Bike Month NYC with over 200 great events from Bike to Shea Day to the Bicycle Film Festival to commuter breakfasts and after work snacks with your Borough President. Bike Month celebrates the fun, convenience and ease of cycling in NYC. Cycling is good for you, good for the environment and good for New York City. Whether you are one of the city's 120,000 everyday cyclists, a weekend cyclist or just thinking about bicycling to work, Bike Month has an event for you. Find out more at www.BikeMonthNYC.org.
Bicycle Network
To encourage cycling as an environmentally friendly, healthy form of transportation NYC DOT is currently installing bicycle lanes as part of its 3-year 200-lane-mile commitment which started in 2006; over 80 lane-miles have been installed to date. Completion of the City's 1,800-mile bicycle master plan is scheduled by 2030.
 Read more about the Bicycle Network Development
News
Bicycle Friendly Business Awards
The New York City Department of Transportation (DOT) and Transportation Alternatives are giving out the first Bike Friendly Business Competition in New York City. With support from the Department of Small Business Services and members of the City Council, the competition seeks to recognize businesses that take steps to encourage employees to bike to work as well as those businesses that provide proper safety equipment and training to their delivery workers, and whose workers generally ride respectfully and obey the traffic rules. The competition is part of Bike Month NYC and will include two categories of winners: businesses that promote commuting by bike and businesses that promote the safety of their working cyclists.
Know a bicycle friendly business? Nominate them before May 14 at www.BikeMonthNYC.org. Awards will be given at the end of May.
Vanderbilt Avenue Landscaped Medians and Bicycle Lanes
In May 2006, DOT put Vanderbilt Avenue on a "road diet", reducing it from four through lanes to two through lanes with left turn bays and a striped center median. The project successfully calmed traffic and made the corridor safer and more bicycle and pedestrian friendly. Now, DOT is returning to construct the greenstreets medians made possible by the project and at the same time modifying the street design to add bicycle lanes. The medians will make this important corridor in this pedestrian oriented area friendly and more appealing to walk along and safer to walk accross. The bicycle lanes will fill a key gap in the bicycle network by connecting Prospect Park with the popular east-west Bergen and Dean Street bike lane pair. The project may begin implementation this spring with completion of the greenstreets elements scheduled by this fall.
Vernon Boulevard, Queens East River Greenway
In response to an evolving western Queens, it is important to provide access to the waterfront and to green transportation corridors with amenities for Queens residents. Vernon Boulevard is a critical north-south route through this area and is identified in both the Queens East River & North Shore Greenway Plan and the 1997 New York City Bicycle Master Plan, and is now part of an ambitious multi-year effort to implement citywide cycling lanes and greenways. The Vernon Boulevard bicycle and pedestrian improvements include buffered on-street bicycle lanes and better connections to four parks on the East River shoreline, between the neighborhoods of Long Island City, Hunters Point, Ravenswood, and Astoria and between the Queens and Brooklyn waterfronts. The project also seeks to improve safety for all users of this heavily traveled street. Implementation of the project is scheduled for June and July of 2008.
West 106th Street Safety and Bicycle Lane Project
West 106th Street is a key route in the NYC Bicycle Master Plan, providing convenient crosstown access across the Upper West Side to popular recreational amenities and other bicycle routes. The installation of bicycle lanes on West 106th Street in July presents an opportunity for a "complete street" redesign to make the street safer and more comfortable not only for cyclists, but for all street users.
Greenwich and Washington Streets Contextual Redesign
In response to evolving land uses, community requests for traffic calming and regular traffic patterns after the long period of instability from the reconstruction of Route 9A, DOT developed a comprehensive contextual redesign for Greenwich and Washington Streets. The resulting improvements include new bicycle lanes, the removal of a motor vehicle lane on Washington Street, marked traffic calming, new traffic signals, improved visibility of crosswalks, signal timing plans that prioritize pedestrians and quality of life, and new curbside regulations that reflect the growth in the residential population of the corridor.
The project was presented to Manhattan's Community Board 3 in January and implementation of most project elements will be completed in April.
Clinton Street: Williamsburg Bridge Bicycle Access Project
The Williamsburg Bridge is the most heavily traveled bridge for cyclists in New York City with approximately 2,600 cyclists crossing the bridge on a typical day. This project will create just under a mile of new bicycle lanes and routes on Clinton Street, providing safe and convenient access to and from the Williamsburg Bridge. In addition to linking the Lower East Side and East Village to the bridge, the project will make connections to the recently installed Grand Street bicycle lane to the south and a bicycle route on East Houston Street to the north.
DeKalb Avenue Traffic Calming and Bicycle Lane Project
Like many North Brooklyn neighborhoods, Fort Greene, Clinton Hill and Bedford Stuyvesant are growing cycling communities. DeKalb Avenue is an important and heavily used multi-modal commuter corridor spanning all three neighborhoods. Many commuters travel on DeKalb Avenue to work, shop or connect with transit in Downtown Brooklyn on the heavily-used B38 bus line, by car or by bike, but there is no dedicated space for cyclists. This project aims to improve safety and comfort for cyclists and calm traffic on DeKalb Avenue, while preserving the multimodal capacity of the avenue. Implementation of the project is scheduled for June 2008.
DOT Bike Program Highlighted at the New Yorker Festival
Over a thousand cyclists and the people who love them took seats at the storied Town Hall in Midtown Manhattan this October for "Bike Night with David Byrne" part of this year's New Yorker Festival. DOT Bicycle Program Director Josh Benson shared the stage with acts ranging from writer Calvin Trillin (who gave a stirring paean to the joys of cycling in Manhattan) to renowned Danish architect and public life expert Jan Gehl to ex-Talking Heads lead singer David Byrne himself.
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