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NYC DOT upgrades Third Ave. in Manhattan for buses, bicycles

Cyclists and bus riders on Manhattan’s Upper East Side have a new way around holiday gridlock with the completion of improvements to Third Ave.
The redesign “helps prioritize the tens of thousands of bus riders who rely on this street every day for safe bus service,” Transportation Commissioner Ydanis Rodriguez said in a statement.
The work, announced in July, involved installing an offset bus lane and protected bike lanes along 37 blocks of Third Ave., from E. 59th St. to E. 96th St.
Four bus routes — the M98, M101, M102, and M103 — run northbound up Third Ave., serving an estimated 50,000 riders a day.
The newly installed bus lane augments an earlier DOT project, the installation earlier this year of so-called Transit Signal Priority technology along Third Ave. between E. 7th and E. 125th streets earlier this year.
The system allows buses to communicate their location to the traffic-light network, which adjusts to reduce the time buses spend at red lights.
The Third Ave. project also involved the installation of 9-foot-wide protected bike lanes —3 feet wider than typical city bike lanes.
The additional 2 miles of bike lane are protected from traffic by a parking lane.
The bike lanes widen further, to 11 feet, at two uphill sections — from E. 64th to E. 66th streets as well as from E. 80th to E. 82nd — an effort to create a passing zone for faster e-bikes to safely overtake traditional bikes.
Transportation crews also installed so-called “daylighting” — empty space with a view to traffic lanes — at corners along the corridor, meant to improve pedestrian safety while crossing.
Six pedestrians and one cyclist were killed along the 37-block corridor between 2016 and 2022, according to DOT data.

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