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Lafayette will get a new two-way bike lane through the Village and Soho
This is not quite Tribeca news, but for the bikers among us, it’s a big deal and solves part of the problem of getting downtown through the Village (though there are still more stumbling blocks: hello Varick, Thompson, Greenwich).
The Department of Transportation presented plans to Community Board 2 that will expand pedestrian crossings and sidewalks and create a new two-way protected bike lane from Spring to 14th Street on Lafayette. That means you can bike north up Centre to Spring, where Lafayette and Centre converge (It turns into 4th Avenue at 9th Street) and heading south from from Union Square, you can bike all the way to the Brooklyn Bridge (and beyond, actually).
Lafayette was getting resurfaced anyway this spring, so they are taking the opportunity to make bike improvements.
Along the way there will be nine new concrete island and three sidewalk extensions for pedestrians. That part of the construction is anticipated in late 2026 and 2027.
Stay tuned for an update on the new Sixth Avenue bike path…
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I don’t understand.
Doesn’t the No. 1 bus travel on Lafayette?
DOT is expanding a bike lane and reducing travel lane capacity – sounds like this will impact on buses and emergency vehicles.
Yes?
Expanding biking and worsening bus transit?
Wow
I bike on Lafayette often – there’s very little traffic there and what there is, moves pretty well. It never gets jammed like 6th Ave does. It feels like to me lime it was designed so wide when there was a different commerce pattern downtown.
Also I just came back from Buenos Aires where all the bike lanes are two-way – bicyclists are careful when passing each other and it works rather well, actually. Although I have to say that the fact that there aren’t that many throttle electric bikes there and when someone is on one, they’re in the main roadway with the cars, helps A LOT.