NYC Improves 3rd Avenue with Safe Double-Wide Bike Lane, Bus Lane & Daylighting 

Bike infra costs the city PENNIES compared to car infra. They could put this on every avenue in the city for less that repairing a 5 mile freeway segment. The pent up demand for safe bicycle facilities in NYC is enormous.

Now this is GREAT. I want every "stroad" in all boroughs like this on next street redesign. So I am now volunteering at Transportation Alternatives to make this happen!

Love the use of bike racks and CitiBike docks to simultaneously stack bicycle parking away from sidewalks and daylight intersections. Hope to see more of this across the city.

Build and connect protected bike lanes, & cyclists will come, and traffic will ease. Consider bus access and pedestrian safety-everyone wins. Shared. ~ Way

Fantastic! I live far uptown and wasn’t aware of the positive development on 3rd Ave until now. Good to know that it’s now a viable transport route for cyclists. Thanks for reporting on this!

Great to see one of the most iconic cities in the world doing these kind of changes. Hopefully it encourages other cities too!

It’s amazing how much safer and quieter the avenues that have bike lanes feel. The wider, the better! Hoping for some Parisian bike lanes soon!

This is great. We need this on every single avenue in Manhattan.

Yes! I spoke at a community board meeting in support of this last year. I no longer live on 3rd Ave, but I'm so happy it got implement without compromising on features. Protected, wide bike lanes! Bus lanes! Designated delivery spots! This is the blueprint now.

Safe protected bike lanes need to be part of every transportation plan. Every street that gets new paving or is has any major repair needs to be added to the bike lane network. Any new construction needs to include access and parking for bicycles.

its crazy they allow parking on these streets

I cried tears in happiness from this video, love seeing change in the right direction

NY just gets better and better for bicycle riders. Its awesome

Great film documenting new 3rd Ave look from 61st to 96th: wider bike lane, new bike lane protection devices, daylighting of intersections, and offset bus lane! Great advocacy/push for getting this done! Thank you NYC DOT!

Great progress! Awesome to see my old city doing so much better for its people. I’ve not had a chance to experience the newer improved lanes, but I have the dedicated bus lanes, and they do wonders for bus riders and drivers. I have at times taken advantage of them when riding my bike where no bike paths exist. The armadillos are a slight improvement over flex posts, but I hope they get upgraded to K-rails (Jersey barriers) or firm bollards. Armadillos and similar items don’t keep drivers from intruding, but they can certainly make a biker lose control.

Ah, I finally got to experience the new bike lane today! Stopped at By the Way Bakery for a GF pumpkin muffin, then hopped over to 3rd and rode up to BAE. I'm just so happy with how roomy it is is!

Every time I visit NYC it gets better and better, and the last couple years, it's felt markedly safer and more pedestrian-friendly. Obviously, there's a lot more that can be done, but it's fantastic to see the change.

Armadillos are an improvement to those rubber stanchions but what you really need are raised curbs, with an additional concrete wheel guard at all locations where the bike lane is right next to the auto traffic.

Sorry all for double post. For some reason RU-vid never processed it as HD, so it was only coming up 360 resolution. Fixed now but I can't back those first 300 views the first hour!! Please spread the word.

Great evolution! Thank you for sharing!

I've rode on that avenue for over a decade without the bike lane. I'm so happy to have one finally! Now let's daylight every single intersection in the city!

americans giddy to get what is the bare minimum in a dutch street of similar traffic

They’ll do anything but adding raised crossings and raised bike lanes…

Ticket that blue car at 4:27!

Improv everywhere? More like safe streets everywhere! ❤

Wonderful. This needs to be copied throughout the USA.

Great vid. Bike lanes make everyone safer

Looks fantastic. The parallel northbound 1st ave bike lane could get pretty crowded during rush hour! This will help ease congestion there and induce more people to consider using bikes

Just returned from a weekend in NYC, it was my first trip in years. I only got to bike once, and the new infrastructure was amazing, but as a pedestrian I noticed that it was so much nicer and faster to move around the city thanks to the daylighting and pedestrian islands.

NYC just won't implement concrete separating barriers

Once we have a dictator, we'll have the full China experience, biking to work living in a cramped apartment, maybe we could have a one child policy too late. We already do. It's too expensive to have more than one kid

I understand this is an improvement but this is not "good" infrastructure. Just as most bike lanes in Barcelona, my city, this bike lane is placed on the wrong side of the road. It should be placed on the right hand side for a number of reasons, one of them being right turns for cars over the cycle lane are much safer for cyclists than left turns because of a much wider driver's angle of vision. Of course cities with a weak tradition and poor design, such as Barcelona or New York, make a big fuss about bus stops but that minor "problem" can be solved with a proper bus stop design (on a floating wide platform) and a change of habits (that comes swiftly): the alleged interference between cyclists and bus users is simply fear of the unknown or resistance to change: real statystics show there's little interference and little to none danger. On the other hand real statystics do show that cars left turn is more dangerous than right turn for cyclists. Placing bike parking right next to the pedestrian crossing is of course an improvement in visibility for drivers but it would be much better if there was a completely empty gap of at least 5 meters with no objects at all, complete clearance, as they call it in Copenhaguen; a few thin bollards and proper road markings should be enough to keep cars away. A four year old kid standing behind a bike or behind a dust bin is completely hidden form the drivers vision. There also should be no main street with one-way infraestructure for bikes; it should be either a wider protected two-way bike lane on the right side of the traffic or a one-way protected lane on each side of the street. On minor neighbourhood streets you might consider a one way lane on the left side, with the bikes running against traffic on this "contraflow" lane, and the possibility of bikes riding also in the same way of traffic with the aid of some traffic calming procedures, always in a low traffic volume environment. On this regard, the standard in the Netherlands right know for wide avenues is a two-way bike lane on each side of the road, but of course that is combined with a number of designs and procedures that they have been putting in place for decades. And one last tip: don't ever copy any bike design coming from Barcelona; or if there is a coincidence, try to avoid that particular design or be skeptical and check it twice; they don't usually get it right, that's why the city holds such bad statistics for cycling, both modal split and safety. You know well enough what designs we should all copy or learn from and where they come from...

great job, but the stinky, loud and fast motorbikes should not be allowed on the cycling path, its discouraging toward children, elderly using same path and would defeat partially the purpose in changing mobility.

Those wide avenues have so much potential for biking, separated public transport and walking. So easy to do that it makes us in Europe almost jealous

Good, but there's still so much asphalt everywhere. Needs more natural elements.

I am going to email my city to try and implement some of these features. I love the usage of bike racks to daylight- Ann Arbor uses too many damn bollards. They could save some money and add more bike parking

hot damn, look at that. this looks so much like the REV in Montreal. I love it!

Not good enough. I want it like in the Netherlands

This is superb. I am going to look forward to using this bike lane when I visit New York City later this year.

Great! How about ABOVE 96 Street? How about the other four boroughs? Yes, hard to believe NYC is more than Manhattan below 96 St

This is so wonderful

This is good step in the right direction. But, (especcialy) the big cities should take a look at the bicycle infrastructure of The Netherlands. In most of the cities and villages the cyclist is “king”. The Total transportation infrastructure is build around Cycle ways. Pro. More safety for cyclists, space to create, more room for pedestrians, cleaner air and not unimportant, less annoyance from/to cardrivers.

Hey that's awesome!!! I want to visit NYC just to ride on the new bicycle infrastructure and maybe get inspired with some ideas to take back home :-)

Please don't ride side by side. You block faster riders.

this is really really awesome. Thank you!!

3rd Av should really be among the easiest of streets to retrofit -- has to be literally twice the width of Lex

Now the question is, will the nypd actually enforce parking?

Nice to see “New Amsterdam” becoming a bit more like “old” Amsterdam.

Good for New Yokers .... You should visit Montreal for more ideas about green aesthetic and efficent biking infrastructure . We love New Yorkers.

Door dasher Mopeds are gonna love this 😢

I’m sorry but the new intersection design is a left hook waiting to happen. The old mixing zone was proven safe with only a limited number of fatalities (all cause d by reckless drivers) over a period of a decade or more. Everything else is golden.

Beautiful

This is great! I hope the city does even more to make alternative transport more enjoyable and safer. Need more people to get out of cars and start taking alternative transit, there's way too many cars.

It’s time for the upper westside too do this know

Thank you for your advocacy

I heard about it

These video's are so cute! You change 1 street, not even the entire length, in a city of 25million+ people, and it's just paint and some obstacles, and they're all so proud!

I like the documentation of urban infrastructure improvement but the saccharin sweet uplifting music makes me gag. I want to share videos like this but I can't subject my friends and family to this obnoxiously pious music.

Looks like a blind spot for pedestrians trying to cross, potentially to be stuck by a bicyclist

This is garbage 🗑️ I’m so sick of these bike lanes citibikes, bike racks and now wider bike lanes so cyclists could ride next to each other to Converse? How pathetic does that sound? Anything to push drivers out of the streets then the city has some nerve to charge congestion price! How about charging cyclists congestion price also!

But WHY did they put the bike lane on the left side of the street 🤣 so faster cyclists ride closer to pedestrians instead of the other (correct) way round. Americans never cease to amaze me

They need to get moped drivers on bike lanes. I they always take the lanes and shouldn’t.

Removing cars will come to haunt NYS. All that registration revenue will disappear and other states don’t suspend registrations for unpaid NY fines. Cyclist don’t carry insurance but run pedestrians over all the time. When groceries are triple the price because of congestion pricing and OT paid for overnight deliveries the cyclists will just move to ruin the Bx and Queens