Recent Streetsblog NYC posts about Bicycle Safety

U.K. Study Finds Wearing a Bike Helmet May be More Dangerous

By Aaron Naparstek | Sep 14, 2006 | 9 Comments

We are certainly still going to be wearing our helmets when we ride bikes on New York City streets, but here is an interesting study by Dr. Ian Walker a "traffic psychologist" from Bath University in Great Britain. Walker found that motorists drove more safely and carefully when passing cyclists who were not wearing helmets. […]

Digging in: How Many Crashes Are Due to “Bicycle Factors?”

By Aaron Naparstek | Sep 14, 2006 | 5 Comments

Charles Komanoff at Right of Way has churned out an initial analysis of the City’s bicycle injury and fatality study. Here is his take: New York City just released its first-ever study of bicycle injuries and fatalities. There’s good news and bad news. The good news is that four City agencies (health, transportation, parks and […]

Eyes on the Street: Hudson River Greenway Crash

By Aaron Naparstek | Sep 14, 2006 | 6 Comments

Sproule Love wrote: Yesterday I saw yet another peice of evidence that drivers are out of control in NYC… A NY Waterway bus hit a cyclist crossing an entryway that intersects with the West Side bike path at 40th Street. The cyclist seemed OK, not fatally wounded, but it is still a horrible sight to see […]

Rally for a Livable Houston Street

By Aaron Donovan | Aug 31, 2006 | 8 Comments

(Photo by Will Sherman of Transportation Alternatives) As promised, members of Manhattan Community Board 2 and Transportation Alternatives held a rally yesterday where many elected officials spoke of the need for improved bicycling and pedestrian facilities on the Interstate Highway in our midst, Houston Street. Eighty years ago, Houston Street was a narrow street not much wider than Prince or Bleecker Streets […]

The New York Times Comes Correct… Almost

By Aaron Naparstek | Aug 18, 2006 | 3 Comments

On Monday Streetsblog wrote that the New York Times had under-reported the number of New York City bicycle fatalities in 2005. A correction appeared in the Times today: A report in the Metro Briefing column last Friday about the death of a bike messenger in Manhattan misstated the number of bicyclists killed in traffic accidents in […]

New York Times Under-Reports Cyclist Fatalities

By Aaron Naparstek | Aug 14, 2006 | 5 Comments

The New York Times printed an error in the news brief reporting the death of Darren Lewis, the 20-year-old bike messenger killed by a truck in Midtown on Thursday. The Times reported that twelve cyclists were killed in New York City last year. According to the NYPD, 24 cyclists were killed on the city’s streets in 2005, twice […]

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