Street safety advocates launched an online tracker Monday to keep tabs on the city's progress to install 30 miles of protected bike lanes by the end of the year.
Brooklyn attorney and avid cyclist Brandon Chamberlin began tracking the paths late last year, collecting information from DOT’s public presentations, the agency’s Tweets with progress updates, and by checking out the sites in person.He joined forces with Transportation Alternatives to publish the collected reports in an accessible format. The website has a map of the completed projects, those still in the works, and another for the lanes DOT has announced.
Time is running out to mark the remaining lanes before the weather gets too cold to paint and contractors have until wait until spring to restart street work. “This should really be provided by the city in one place that’s easily understandable,” he said. “Until the administration creates a site of their own, we’ll keep updating our site.”bike lanes than the Streets Plan law requires, pledging to install 300 miles of protected paths for bikes and 150 miles for buses within his first four-year term.