New York's Bike Lanes: From One Path to 1,755 km, 1894 → 2026 | Animated Map

In June 1894 Brooklyn's Ocean Parkway got the first bicycle path in the United States. Today New York City has 1,755 km of bike lanes, 734 km of them protected. Watch every lane appear, year by year, on a real map of the city: green is protected, amber is a painted lane, blue is a shared or signed route. 0:00 1894 – Ocean Parkway, America's first bike path 3:10 1980 – Koch's protected lanes, gone within months 4:09 1997 – The first Bicycle Master Plan 5:53 2007 – Sadik-Khan and the Ninth Avenue lane 6:33 2009 – 200 miles in three years 7:27 2013 – Citi Bike launches 9:06 2019 – Green Wave and the Streets Master Plan 9:48 2021 – A bike lane on the Brooklyn Bridge 11:01 Every bike lane in New York today Lengths are measured along the street centreline on the NYC Open Data map. Bike lanes: NYC Open Data, NYC DOT Bike Routes · Map: © OpenStreetMap contributors (Geofabrik extracts) Sources for the captions: 1894 – In 1894, the first bike lane in America was built on Brooklyn's Ocean Parkway (6sqft): https://www.6sqft.com/in-1894-the-fir... 1980 – Wayback Machine: A Deeper Look at Ed Koch's Livable Streets Legacy (Streetsblog NYC): https://nyc.streetsblog.org/2013/02/0... 1997 – About Greenways (NYC DOT): https://nycdotprojects.info/content/a... 2007 – Janette Sadik-Khan (Wikipedia): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Janette... 2007 – New Ninth Avenue Separated Bike Path is Already in Place (Streetsblog NYC): https://nyc.streetsblog.org/2007/10/0... 2009 – DOT Completes Three-Year, 200-Mile Installation of Bike Lanes (NYC DOT): https://www.nyc.gov/html/dot/html/pr2... 2010 – Prospect Park West: Overcoming Controversy (Project for Public Spaces): https://www.pps.org/article/prospect-... 2013 – New York City Sets in Motion America's Largest Bike-Share System (Streetsblog NYC): https://nyc.streetsblog.org/2013/05/2... 2017 – Can You Teach an Old Bike Lane New Tricks? (Tri-State Transportation Campaign): https://blog.tstc.org/2017/05/16/can-... 2019 – Bklyn Lawmakers Laud De Blasio's 'Green Wave' Bicycle Plan (PoliticsNY): https://politicsny.com/2019/07/25/bkl... 2019 – Council Passes Streets Master Plan (CityLand): https://www.citylandnyc.org/council-p... 2020 – DOT 'Cycling in the City' Report Confirms 2020 Bike Boom (Streetsblog NYC): https://nyc.streetsblog.org/2021/10/0... 2021 – Brooklyn Bridge Bike Path Completed, Open for Use (CityLand): https://www.citylandnyc.org/brooklyn-... Music: "Wallpaper", "Bossa Antigua", "Healing" by Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com), licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/...) #newyork #bikelanes #nyc #cycling #mapanimation