The Department of Transportation today released the digital version of its 2016 cycling map, which you can view online and download before the version that absorbs coffee stains goes into circulation next month. While recent courtroom and community board drama has proven that New York in 2016 still hasn't quite decided if bike lanes are unequivocally a good idea, this year's map proudly boasts 70 new or "upgraded" bike-specific lane miles, twelve of which are protected. The map also includes seven miles of new off-street bike lanes, including a stretch of the Springville Greenway on the eastern edge of Freshkills Park in Staten Island.

The DOT is promising a record 15 fresh miles of protected bike lanes in the coming year—on Bruckner Boulevard in the Bronx, for example, and Amsterdam Avenue and Chrystie Street in Manhattan. And a new proposal for protected bike lanes on Jay Street in Downtown Brooklyn is part of the DOT's effort to not just generate new lanes, but connect them along logical commuter routes as well (in this case, a protected commute to Midtown from Brooklyn across the Manhattan Bridge).

But just like you can't trust a municipal worker, you probably shouldn't trust the bike map, in its entirety, with your life.

Union St contra-flow lane has been missing since last summer. Yet it's on @NYC_DOT #bikenyc map. pic.twitter.com/JQFKYP7dEC — Brooklyn Spoke (@BrooklynSpoke) March 28, 2016

A spokesperson for the DOT said that the department is aware of a few alleged errors on the map (another being misinformation about car travel in Prospect Park) and is "looking into it."

In the meantime, be safe out there, y'all.