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By Wayne Sheppard For many cyclists and pedestrians, traveling across the Brooklyn Bridge is far from pleasant. Squeezing onto a ten-foot-wide (17 feet at its widest) elevated path intended for shared use may no longer be viable as the bridge ...
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By Wayne Sheppard Summer Streets is an annual celebration of New York City’s most valuable public space—our streets. For three consecutive Saturdays in August, nearly seven miles of NYC’s streets will be opened for people to play, run, walk and ...
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By Wayne Sheppard Developers looking to go bigger with their projects have a path forward. Always eager for infrastructure upgrades, the City has proven to be amenable to a trade – allowing higher structures in exchange for improving or adding ...
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By Wayne Sheppard The DOT has plans to open new bike lanes on Meeker Avenue and improve southbound bike connections from the Williamsburg Bridge. With the shutdown of the L train around the corner, the bike plan offers an alternative to ...
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By Wayne Sheppard About 15,000 daily passengers on the M23 will get faster trips starting in the fall under the plan from NYC and the MTA for Select Bus Service on 23rd Street. The agencies revealed their preliminary plan for ...
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By Wayne Sheppard Transportation Commissioner Polly Trottenberg and Mayor de Blasio announced that New York City has committed to installing over 15 miles of physically protected bicycle lanes in 2016, the most of any year on record. The projects include ...
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By Wayne Sheppard According to DOT, construction of the Pulaski Bridge bike path is scheduled to be completed by the end of April. As the remaining details and minor construction are done, specifics of the new design are coming to ...
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By Wayne Sheppard New York City Department of Transportation announced the unveiling of the newly reconstructed Fordham Plaza in the Bronx. The Fordham Plaza area used to be called the worst intersection in the city, but it is now a ...
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By Wayne Sheppard The annual DOT Holiday Construction Embargo comes to town at the end of this month. Starting November 20th, then running from November 23rd through January 2, 2016, the embargo clears the way for pedestrians to better enjoy ...
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By Wayne Sheppard As a Harlem New York resident for almost 30 years of my life, I was thrilled to see that the area of Broadway, between West 135th& West 153rd Streets, has been included in NYCDOT’s Vision Zero Program. ...
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By Wayne Sheppard In an effort to create an active and healthy City, sections of Central & Prospect Parks have been made car-free. The changes in these 2 parks began earlier this summer, with the intended goal of providing a safe ...
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By Wayne Sheppard Summer Streets is an annual celebration of New York City’s most valuable public space – its streets. For three consecutive Saturdays in August, (1, 8, 15) nearly seven miles of NYC’s streets will be opened to the ...
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