Recent Streetsblog NYC posts about Bicycle Infrastructure

T.A. to Kick Off Bike Month With Wednesday 9th Avenue Ride

By Brad Aaron | May 6, 2008 | 1 Comment

Transportation Alternatives will officially kick off Bike Month tomorrow with a morning ride down the 9th Avenue cycle track. The ride will start at 9th and 23rd Street, and will end at the 14th Street pedestrian plaza, where there will be a press conference to highlight Bike Month events. Word is DOT Commish Janette Sadik-Khan […]

Baltimore Getting Serious About Bikes

By Damien Newton | May 5, 2008 | 2 Comments

Thanks to the announcement that Baltimore will have a Ciclovia, some in the livable streets movement already know that Baltimore is changing, that there is more to Charm City than is seen in crime dramas such as "The Wire" and "Homicide." A recent visit showed me that the Ciclovia is only one of several bike […]

Can Red Hook Become NYC’s Most Bike-Friendly Neighborhood?

By Brad Aaron | May 2, 2008 | 16 Comments

Earlier this week, the Forum For Urban Design announced the Red Hook Bicycle Master Plan Design Competition, offering cash prizes for the best proposals to "re-imagine Red Hook as the most bicycle friendly neighborhood in all of New York." Plans should center on the creation of a bike loft parking facility at the Smith/9th Street […]

All Eyes on Portland at Bike Summit

By Ben Fried | Mar 6, 2008 | 30 Comments

An organized ride on one of Portland’s bike boulevards. If there was a star at yesterday’s National Bike Summit, it was Portland, Oregon. After Earl Blumenauer, one of the city’s congressional reps and a former county commissioner, delivered the morning address, Portland’s bike planners and advocates shared their strategies at some of the more urban-focused […]

Bike Network 2.0

By Ben Fried | Mar 6, 2008 | 17 Comments

One of the more intriguing stories at yesterday’s National Bike Summit in Washington D.C. came from Nicole Freedman, who was appointed Boston’s first bike czar last September. A planner and one-time professional cyclist, Freedman was charged with building a bike network out of nothing, in a city routinely ranked among the nation’s worst for bicycling, […]

Earl Blumenauer Kicks Off 2008 Bike Summit

By Ben Fried | Mar 5, 2008 | 5 Comments

Congressman Blumenauer works the room Streetsblog’s Ben Fried files this report from Washington, DC. The National Bike Summit is in full swing today. There are more than 500 participants from 47 states on hand this year, organizers say, making this bike summit the biggest yet. Representative Earl Blumenauer (D-OR), a bike commuter himself, kicked things […]

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