Recent Streetsblog NYC posts about Bicycle Parking

NYPD Raid Nets Bikes and Bystanders

By Jason Varone | Jun 5, 2007 | 32 Comments

This entry on the Village Voice Blog by Laura Conaway tells the story of an NYPD raid on parked bicycles last Wednesday night. When two residents questioned the officer in charge, they were arrested: Sparks from the NYPD’s circular saws arced through the night. Police, some in plainclothes, were piling cycles by the dozen in […]

StreetFilms: Secure Bike Parking for Pennies per Hour

By Clarence Eckerson Jr. | May 14, 2007 | 23 Comments

In the East Bay area of California you’ll find electronic, on-demand Bike Link locking facilities that provide secure bike parking for between 3 to 5 cents per hour! The lockers were created by eLock Technologies, which runs the Bike Link facilities. While not ubiquitous just yet, according to Robert Rayburn, Executive Director of the East […]

StreetFilms: Berkeley’s Bikestation

By Clarence Eckerson Jr. | May 8, 2007 | 16 Comments

This is the first of three videos StreetFilms will be posting in the coming week about innovative bike parking ideas in the California East Bay Area. Dave Campbell of the Bicycle-Friendly Berkeley Coalition gives a quick tour of a Bikestation facility in Berkeley — a bicycles actually have their own parking attendant. In a much […]

Building a Better Bike Lane

By Jason Varone | May 4, 2007 | 31 Comments

This weekend’s Wall Street Journal has an massive, full-page report on bike friendly cities in Europe. Initially the arguments for more biking were mostly about health and congestion, but in the last year concern for the environment has become an important factor compelling people to travel by bicycle: Flat, compact and temperate, the Netherlands and […]

Small Step for Pedestrians & Cyclists; Giant Leap for NYC

By Aaron Naparstek | Dec 22, 2006 | 8 Comments

The Department of Transportation’s recently announced streetscape renovation at the Bedford Avenue L subway station in Williamsburg, Brooklyn marks the first time ever in New York City that car parking spaces have been removed to make way for bicycle parking. Since breaking the news of this development on Monday, Streetsblog has learned more about the project. DOT’s plan […]

Streetfilms: On-Street Bicycle Parking, Portland

By Aaron Naparstek | Dec 20, 2006 | 9 Comments

Following the news about the new sidewalk extensions and bike racks being installed in place of car parking space in Williamsburg, Brooklyn, Clarence Eckerson of Streetfilms sends along this short video looking at on-street bicycle parking in Portland, Oregon, that cyclists’ Shangri-La. As Greg Raisman from Portland DOT says, "After we put it in, it […]

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