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AGENCY TESTIMONY
Cycling infrastructure improvements
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Commissioner Rodriguez highlights the significant improvements made to cycling infrastructure in New York City over the past year.
- DOT added 29.3 miles of protected bike lanes in 2023, the third-highest number in city history.
- New bike connections were created on Queens Boulevard and Manhattan's Second, Sixth, Seventh, and Tenth Avenues.
- An additional 4.4 miles of bike lanes were upgraded through hardening with physical infrastructure.
- The commissioner emphasizes the health benefits of cycling, stating that cycling for half an hour every day can extend a person's life by six years.
- DOT is calling for partnerships to educate New Yorkers about the benefits of cycling as a safe, green, and healthy mode of transportation.
Ydanis Rodriguez
2:06:01
Last year, the agency added 29.3 miles of protected bike lane.
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The third highest numbers built in the city history following a record 31.9 miles in 2023.
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This include critical new bike connection on Queens Boulevard and Manhattan Second, Sixth, Seventh, And Tenth Avenue.
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The agency also upgrade in addition 4.4 miles of bike lanes through hardening with physical infrastructure to better protect cyclists from other vehicles.
2:06:35
As we continue to build cycling infrastructure, we will continue and we ask you to be partners with this to educate New Yorkers about the benefit of cycling.
2:06:46
A person who buy half an hour every day, live six more years in their life.
2:06:52
Viking is not a privilege but a safe, green, a hefty way to travel around the city.
2:06:59
We are also delivering better bus lane for New Yorkers through transformative bus lane project on Manhattan's 90 Sixth Street, pictured on the photo on the screen and in my testimony.