Good news of course but also, wow is it painful to watch them just now move a project forward that was obvious a solid decade ago. Between 20, there were 56 reported crashes on that single, critical block, injuring eight cyclists, two pedestrians and one motorist. On Centre Street, the newly installed protected connection from the Brooklyn Bridge will be joined by a northbound protected bike lane from Worth Street to Canal Street - a bike lane that will attempt to calm five key blocks where there were an astounding 248 reported crashes from 2017 through 2019, injuring nine cyclists, 22 pedestrians and 16 motorists, killing one pedestrian, according to Crashmapper.Įventually, that protected bike lane will go north of Canal Street to Kenmare Square, a key improvement because northbound cyclists currently have only one way of getting to the eastbound Grand Street protected bike lane: by riding on the dangerous part of Centre north of Canal. Presenting the plans for protected bike lanes on Centre Street and Lafayette Street to Community Board 1’s Transportation Committee last week, Department of Transportation planner Patrick Kennedy said the goal is to fill in a gap in lower Manhattan’s bike network to provide more secure connections - and the a best-case scenario could result in protected bike lanes running further north on Centre Street and south on Lafayette Street this year. The Brooklyn Bridge bike lane is here, but cyclists might have to wait ’til next year for a safer connection to and from it.

Wow a bridge too far