NYCDOT will restore several proposed bike and bus lanes.
New York Mayor Mamdani announced that the Department of Transportation will move forward with multiple Complete Streets projects nixed by the Adams administration, reports Dave Colon in Streetsblog NYC.
The package of street redesigns includes bus lanes and bike lanes in several neighborhoods. “The centerpiece of Friday's announcement was the decision to finally move forward with a bus lane redesign of Fordham Road, which began at the tail-end of former Mayor Bill de Blasio's tenure and continued under Adams, who threw it into a nearby dumpster.” The mayor said the changes are aiming to make bus speeds along Fordham Road at least 20 percent faster.
According to Colon, “The other revived projects were either ignored or abandoned by the Adams administration, who in each case chose political expediency over street safety. Mamdani's decision to advance them clears out a major backlog of work the Adams administration left in its wake.”
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