Apaar Bansal

Project Manager at the NYC DOT trying to make buses go faster through more #completestreet design. MIT and UC Berkeley alum. Views are my own.

[Apaar Bansal @apaartybans]

Check out my walk with Hindustan Times today analyzing a street redesign in Delhi!

[Somya Lakhani @somyalakhani]

Finally a decent footpath in #Delhi! Though it’s only a 250 m stretch in Vasant Kunj. How hard is it to replicate this in the rest of the city? @gargiiishukla @aaditya_writes met a reader & urban planning expert @apaartybans for this video! Do watch.

[Apaar Bansal @apaartybans]

Check out an article @santfdz and I wrote introducing a project I worked on when I was at ITDP in Mexico City. Happy to see how much the tool has advanced since I left Mexico, and excited to advance the conversation on transport accessibility!

[Urbanet @Urbanet_info]

🇮🇳🏡🇲🇽Access to #affordablehousing isn't just about the price tag - join city planners @santfdz & @apaartybans and learn how their innovative visual tool reshapes the conversation around housing location, #mobility, & #equitable city planning! #urbanaccess
https://t.co/WxDU1CAgeA

[Apaar Bansal @apaartybans]

Love the content they’ve been posting from Delhi, a city full of cyclists, pedestrians, and bus riders, but that puts these people last when designing streets.

[Melissa & Chris Bruntlett @modacitylife]

Making up 5% of traffic, Delhi’s ‘invisible cyclists’ pedal defiantly in a city that has long forgotten their plight.

Their voices remain unheard in the mobility disucssion, which is directed toward the growing middle class. Surely, they deserve the dignity of safe streets, too.

[Apaar Bansal @apaartybans]

My project is nearing completion soon!

[NYC DOT @NYC_DOT]

Bus riders and cyclists on University Ave in #theBronx will soon get a smoother ride in new bus lanes and a two-way #BikeNYC lane slated for completion this fall!

[Apaar Bansal @apaartybans]

Great overview by Sarah on the work my unit does at the NYCDOT!

[NYC DOT @NYC_DOT]

“You can be yourself and you can also have a really great career making an impact in the place you call home.”

Meet Sarah, the Assistant Director of Bus Priority and Co-chair of our LGBTQIA Employee Resource Group at NYC DOT.

[Apaar Bansal @apaartybans]

@sainzcaccia @oneflores The trees have grown so much 😍

[Apaar Bansal @apaartybans]

Walkable cities begin with walkable neighborhoods. In the 2 pics below, one from Gurgaon and the other from London, both streets have roughly 40 ft b/w property lines, but one is obviously more walkable. We can't expect home-based walk trips if our neighborhoods look like this.

[Apaar Bansal @apaartybans]

Glad to see this, as they def act as proof of concepts and before/after pics are politically useful, but instead of these mega overhauls on small corridors, I'd like to see small improvements on a large scale.

https://t.co/Z0iqelyqB2

[Apaar Bansal @apaartybans]

I'm talking about continuous footpaths with lower consistent curb heights, inclined ramps at crossings, pruned trees that block pedestrian flow, bulb outs at crossings, etc. We have not mastered these basics yet, but we are trying to build fancy corridors.

[Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @NYCMayor]

New York City is the New Delhi of America.

I'm so proud to have so many representatives of our Indian community serving in my administration.

Happy #IndianIndependenceDay!

#ShareAHeartNYC

[Apaar Bansal @apaartybans]

Important to keep in mind how trees and plants impact street designs. I assisted the Forestry dept to identify trees that need to be pruned for buses to use their new curbside lane on University Ave in the Bronx.

[Apaar Bansal @apaartybans]

Called a meeting last week of the many DOT units required to redesign an intersection for bus and bike improvements. Had reps from roadway milling & paving, sidewalk concrete, traffic signal design, geometric design, and of course, transit development. It takes a village!

[Apaar Bansal @apaartybans]

Managed to catch some DOT contractors painting a new bus lane on University Ave in the Bronx this week. Really impressed with the crews working in heat wave conditions -- the 55,000 weekday bus riders on this corridor thank you!

[Apaar Bansal @apaartybans]

Excited to be assisting in the design and implementation of this project, which will improve the experience for every bus rider, cyclist, and pedestrian that touches this corridor. Will try to post updates during the implementation process.

[NYC DOT @NYC_DOT]

This month, we'll begin transit improvements on University Ave (Tremont Ave to Kingsbridge Rd) in #theBronx. This work will:
🚴‍♀️Add Bike Lanes
👨‍🦽Improve Bus Stop Accessibility
🚶‍♀️Enhance Pedestrian Safety
🚌Improve Bus Speeds and Reliability

[Apaar Bansal @apaartybans]

@ofsevit And no heating lamps

[Apaar Bansal @apaartybans]

@sainzcaccia @Walgreens 😳😳

[Nihar @nihart1024]

The trees 🌳😌
Is this BLR's most beautiful cycle path?
🚶‍♀️🚶| 🚴‍♂️🚴‍♀️

[Apaar Bansal @apaartybans]

Look it’s me!

[NYC DOT @NYC_DOT]

Today we announced the official launch of the city’s e-scooter pilot in the East Bronx. @BirdRide, @limebike & @VeoRideMobility will bring up to 3,000 e-scooters to the area during Phase 1 starting Tuesday, 8/17, with an increase to as many as 6,000 in the second phase next year

[Apaar Bansal @apaartybans]

@nihart1024 This is so calming to watch

[Apaar Bansal @apaartybans]

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