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| In 1997, the Department of Transportation and the Department of City Planning published NYC's Bicycle Master Plan. This plan identified a roughly 1,800 mile network of potential bicycle lanes and paths. Since that time, the two agencies along with the Department of Parks and Recreation have been working together to implement this network and to increase cycling in all five boroughs. Read more about the Bicycle Master Plan. 200 Miles of Bicycle Routes in 3 Years
DOT has committed to designing and installing an unparalleled 200 miles of on-street bicycle routes in a three-year period starting from July 1st, 2006 ending June 30th, 2009. This commitment was announced in September 2006 and is a key initiative of PlaNYC which seeks to accommodate new residents in an environmentally sustainable manner.
With 13 of 24 available good weather months passed as of March 2008 (4 winter months each year do not allow for route installation), 90 miles were completed via over 40 separate projects. You can track past, present and future progress toward meeting our ambitious target here:
 2008 Bicycle Route Projects 2007 Bicycle Route Projects 2006 Bicycle Route Projects (from July 1st)
Our goal is to accelerate the growth of safe cycling by quickly providing a backbone system of bicycle routes that traverse and connect all five boroughs while also creating a dense, fine-grained network of bike lanes in communities where cycling is already a popular mode of transportation.
Have a place you'd like to see a bike lane? Let us know here
Innovative Design
DOT seeks not to simply expand the network, but to make it more user-friendly and compelling via bold and innovative designs. This is happening through a variety of means:
Traffic calming and redesigning streets for all users like for Ninth Street and Lafayette Avenue Aggressively piloting high visibility green bicycle lanes as at Prince and Bleecker Streets Creatively accommodating cyclists in complex intersection improvements particularly along major cycling routes as at Grand Army Plaza, the Manhattan Bridge and Ninth Ave through 14th Street Developing and deploying pioneering designs such as the one-of-a-kind Ninth Avenue Bicycle Path
Bicycle Statistics
DOT conducts bicycle counts on all roadways crossing 50th Street in Manhattan, plus the Hudson River Greenways, the Staten Island Ferry at Whitehall, and the Queensboro, Williamsburg, Manhattan and Brooklyn Bridges. The counts, known as the screenline began in 1980 and have been conducted annually since 1984. Using this data the DOT has developed the NYCDOT Commuter Cycling Indicator for 1984 to 2007. It shows a 77% increase between 2000 and 2007. Read more about the screenline counts.
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