Recent Streetsblog NYC posts about Bicycle Safety

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By Aaron Naparstek | Aug 11, 2006 | 3 Comments

JK’s comment in Another Very Bad Week to Ride a Bike in NYC: Mayor Bloomberg found the time to endorse Joe Lieberman. I would like him to find the time to make some simple expression of concern and sympathy for those cyclists killed and seriously hurt in the last week. There is a great deal […]

Another Very Bad Week to Ride a Bike in NYC

By Aaron Naparstek | Aug 10, 2006 | 24 Comments

In the wake of this morning’s Midtown bike fatality, a correspondent reports: This week three cyclists have been killed or seriously injured in New York City. The first one was on Sunday in Brooklyn. A 10-year-old boy was killed while riding his bike home from his Little League championship game. On Tuesday afternoon another kid was struck and killed while […]

Trucker Kills Cyclist on Ninth Avenue and 29th Street

By Aaron Naparstek | Aug 10, 2006 | 11 Comments

A cyclist riding a red mountain bike was killed on Ninth Avenue and 29th Street at about 10 am this morning. The cyclist, a courier working for Urban Express, was traveling southbound in the right lane of 9th Ave. A 10-wheel truck carrying construction materials was driving in the lane to his left. At 29th Street, with the […]

Budnick Talks Transpo on NY1

By Aaron Naparstek | Aug 10, 2006 | 3 Comments

Transportation Alternatives’s Noah Budnick makes the case on NY1’s "The Call."

Inebriated Columnist Issues Fatwa Against Kamikaze Jerks

By Aaron Naparstek | Jul 27, 2006 | 16 Comments

Last week, columnist Steve Dunleavy used his 400-word rant-space in the New York Post to urge the city’s cab riders and motorists to throw open their car doors in front of "pedal punks" riding their "maiming machines," and, "take back the streets" from bike-commuting "kamikaze jerks." City cyclists, already feeling vulnerable after a month of […]

Revisiting Houston Street, One Month Later

By Alec | Jul 25, 2006 | No Comments

Derek Lake died on June 26 when his bike tripped over a steel plate and fell beneath the wheels of a moving truck in the midst of Houston Street’s reconstruction mess. Brad Hoylman, a Village resident, chairs the Traffic and Transportation Committee of Community Board 2. Hoylman talks to Streetsblog about the Community Board’s reaction […]

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