In the past year or so, the DOT has made great strides making the cycling corridor between North and South Brooklyn much safer. Besides the Bedford Avenue bike lane expansion (and slight retraction), a large stretch of Kent Avenue along the East River was turned into a cycling oasis: two lanes of bike lanes separated from traffic by parked cars. For a while, cyclists still had to share the road with motor vehicles on Kent, when the bike lane ended at Clymer Street, but a few months ago the DOT turned a wide, sparsely populated sidewalk on Kent into a shared-use bike and pedestrian zone. And then a hairy stretch of speedway on Williamsburg Street West, where cyclists would turn right to hook around the Navy Yards, was made infinitely safer by separating bikes from cars by a cement barricade. Which brings us to the not-fun-to-ride Flushing Avenue, where big changes await! more ›

The American Institute of Architects is looking to supplant the idea of replacing the Gowanus Expressway with a tunnel, and instead proposes a suspended highway and formation of a Gowanus Greenway. In 2006, the Dept. of Transportation gave a green light to a $12.8 billion proposal to build a 3.5 mile, seven lane tunnel underneath the Brooklyn Waterfront and then destroying the elevated highway. The plan for a Gowanus Tunnel appears to be in perpetual stall though, and would take approximately 15 years to finish. more ›