Over the past decade, the bulb-out has been added, removed, added again and now seems out of business. / 1 comment
Plus: The dreaded Broadway bus bulb is getting rebuilt; more looks at the 70 Vestry model; 7 World Trade Center plaza got its replacement trees; Five Boro Bike Tour street closures; the droning outside Tribeca Tower still hasn't been fixed.
When the “bus bulbs”—occasional extensions to the sidewalk along Broadway, in Soho and Tribeca, where bus passengers can wait—were added in 2007, the Department of Transportation claimed that they would actually aid the flow of vehicles on Broadway because buses wouldn’t have to pull in and out of traffic. The head of Transportation Alternatives, which backed […] / 2 comments