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.
As of February 2009 DOT has installed approximately 170 miles of new bike lanes via 69 separate projects. Installation takes place year-long, with a brief hiatus during the coldest months. You can track past, present and future progress toward meeting our ambitious target here:
2009 Bicycle Route Projects
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.
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 2008. It shows a 35% increase between 2007 and 2008 alone. Read more about the screenline counts.
NYMTC also collects data on cycling in the five boroughs
and suburbs through the NYMTC
Bicycle Data Collection Program.
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