Welcome to 2019!

Hello and welcome to the concluding months of the second decade of the 21st Century!

It's been about 9 years since Community Board 10 last heard a consolidated push from DOT and the cycling community about improving bicycling connections in the neighborhood.  Similar improvements were voted down in 2010 and 2011 by CB10, and it was largely voted down again by CB10 in 2019. Though this time, DOT and our elected representatives are saying they will ignore the CB10 vote and paint the routes anyways.

Perhaps because in the first 4 months of 2019, 4 of the 8 cycling deaths in all of NYC occurred in South Brooklyn?

Maybe because a decade of street improvements and traffic calming methods being used throughout the city still have not been widely implemented in Bay Ridge, resulting in repeated reckless driving?  The driving ignorance is higher than BRBR has ever seen.  As one example of its worst, we've first-hand witnessed a car blow through 3 red lights in a row along 3rd Ave: Marine Ave, 99th Street, and Shore Road.

We're looking forward to taking a step towards joining the rest of NYC's present-day street design methods and policies.

Map of the expanded bicycle route network.  Image from Streetsblog.