Pedestrian Plazas and Bicycle Lanes

New York City has added 270 miles of on-street bike lanes since 2007. All together it has 720 miles of bike paths, which include 520 miles of on-street lanes. That is quite impressive. There are 18,800 commuters who commute regularly using a bike. New York City is also in the process of starting a bike share program which will deploy 10,000 rental bikes at 600 stations throughout the city. The bike share program will be similar to those in Boston and Washington DC.

66 percent of Manhattan residents are in support of bike lanes. However a majority of residents in Staten Island (61 %) and Queens (53%) do not support bike lanes, according to an article in Next American City. People do not object to putting bike lanes on on-way streets, but they oppose them on major arteries, which they argue would slow traffic in both directions.

Bike lanes and pedestrian centered public plazas are an integral part of Mayor Bloomberg’s PLANYC initiative, which aims to make New York City a greater, greener and sustainable city by 2030.  

Here is a brief videoon how NYC is transforming Public Plazas



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