New aspects of the design include a two-way bike lane and separate paths for cyclists and pedestrians.
New York City’s Department of Transportation released a new vision for its redesign of Park Avenue on Sept. 16 in response to community feedback to the original designs released in April. The new renderings show “expanded medians, more seating and planters, as well as enough space for what the city calls ‘flexible program space’ in the median,” Stephen Nessen writes for Gothamist.
NYC officials have long planned to overhaul an 11-block stretch of Park Avenue to make the median more of a park. The new design adds a two-way bike lane and separate paths for cyclists and pedestrians, and removes another southbound traffic lane.
“The street currently has three lanes for car traffic in each direction, as well as a lane for curbside parking. The latest design leaves parking spaces on both sides of the street, with one lane of through traffic southbound and two lanes for [northbound traffic],” Gothamist reports.
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