This is the start of something big! Clarkson Street in Manhattan near the Holland Tunnel has had a daytime school street for a few years, but it needed an upgrade and became the first NYC school street to get the Paris-style gate treatment designed via a grant from Project for Public Spaces.

Over the last few months on my many rides thru Sunnyside I've been watching as NYC DOT has been upgrading at least a 1/2 dozen of the "mixing zones" at busy intersections with concrete on Skillman and 43rd Ave. It really makes a HUGE safety and comfort difference.

Sean Quinn, NYC DOT's Associate Deputy Commissioner of Office of Livable Streets, gave us an exclusive about recent places systemwide where the department has been adding concrete to better protected bike lanes.