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As of 2019, New York City had 1,350 miles (2,170 km) of bike lanes, [16] compared to 513 miles (826 km) of bike lanes in 2006. [59] The New York City Department of Transportation distributes a free and annually updated bike map online and through bike shops.
The city's five-year NYC Streets Plan, which became law in 2019, requires the city to build 250 miles of protected bike lanes by 2026, among other safe streets priorities.
A bike lane with some form of buffer between motor traffic and the cycle lane. Buffered bike lane in Manhattan, New York: Lightly segregated: A bike lane with separating features such as wands or orcas. Light segregation on a cycle lane in Berlin: Contraflow: A bike lane which allows cyclists to go against the flow of a one-way street.
A protected bike lane was installed in 2016 from 72nd Street to 110th Street. [27] [28] In August 2023, work began on a 10-foot-wide (3.0 m) protected bike lane from 38th to 52nd Street, [29] [30] which was completed that December. [31] [32] Subsequently, the bike lane was extended between 14th and 38th Street in 2024. [33]
A 2021 study confirmed an expectation that the presence of protected bike lanes is associated with significant improvement in biking safety. The model predicts that by adding bike lanes to non-local streets increases biking safety by 26% in a local area. [30]
Much of 9th Street saw the addition of protected bike lanes in 2019, but the Department of Transportation neglected this section of road from Prospect Park West to Smith Street — a heavily ...
A cyclist rides their bike across East North Avenue and North Bartlett Avenue in Milwaukee on Monday, Aug. 7, 2023. Protected bike lanes are being created to help reduce the volume and severity of ...
A protected bike lane south of 23rd Street was added in 2017, [75] and another protected lane for bidirectional bike traffic between 110th and 120th Streets was announced in 2020. [ 76 ] In July 1987, New York City Mayor Ed Koch proposed banning bicycling on Fifth, Park, and Madison Avenues during weekdays, but many bicyclists protested and had ...