Recent Streetsblog NYC posts about Bicycle Safety

Safer, Saner Brooklyn Bridge Entrance on Track for Next Year

By Stephen Miller | Feb 12, 2014 | 30 Comments

After years of planning and advocacy, an effort to improve the dangerous, ugly asphalt expanse on the Brooklyn side of the Brooklyn Bridge is set to take a big step forward tonight. Community Board 2 is meeting to vote on a resolution in support of a plan to expand space for walking and biking, realign car […]

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Before We Build, We Should Review How a Project Will Affect Safety

By Jim Aloisi and Tanzeel Merchant | Feb 11, 2014 | No Comments

Jim Aloisi is a Boston-based lawyer, historian and transportation policymaker. He is a former Massachusetts state secretary of transportation. His most recent book is The Vidal Lecture. Tanzeel Merchant is a Toronto-based urban designer, architect, planner and writer. He writes for Forbes India. As cities across North American densify, innovate and refocus their priorities, there is a shared […]

Advos Call for Dedicated Fund After Cuomo Budget Again Omits Bike-Ped

By Brad Aaron and Stephen Miller | Jan 28, 2014 | 2 Comments

Two and a half years after he signed the state’s complete streets bill into law, Governor Cuomo has again declined to write dedicated funds for pedestrian and cyclist infrastructure — and, therefore, pedestrian and cyclist safety — into the executive budget. A coalition of over 50 advocacy groups and locals governments under the banner New Yorkers […]

New Yorkers Call on Cuomo to Back Complete Streets Law With State Funds

By Brad Aaron | Jan 14, 2014 | No Comments

A coalition of advocacy groups and government representatives called on Governor Cuomo today to dedicate state funds toward improving infrastructure for walking and biking. New Yorkers for Active Transportation (NY4AT), which consists of over 50 organizations, delivered a bike loaded with 1,300 postcards to the capitol. The postcards ask Cuomo to allocate $20 million in […]

DOT Plans Road Diet and Bikeway Upgrade on Deadly Section of Kent Avenue

By Stephen Miller | Dec 18, 2013 | 18 Comments

Last night, Brooklyn Community Board 1’s transportation committee unanimously recommended the board support a DOT project [PDF] to calm traffic on a deadly stretch of Kent Avenue between Clymer Street and the Brooklyn Queens Expressway. The project also upgrades a link in the Brooklyn Waterfront Greenway to a two-way protected bike lane. Last March, hit-and-run driver Julio Acevedo, […]

The Health Care Cost of Traffic Crashes, and More Ped Injury Summit Tidbits

By Brad Aaron | Dec 16, 2013 | 3 Comments

Here is more from last week’s pedestrian injury summit at Elmhurst Hospital. NYC DOT Infrastructure: Ann Marie Doherty, NYC DOT chief of research for implementation and safety, highlighted the agency’s 2010 pedestrian safety study and action plan. Doherty said DOT is working to get laws passed related to side guards on trucks, to keep people from being […]

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