Recent Streetsblog NYC posts about Bicycle Safety

In a Collision? Share Your Experience on TA’s CrashStories Website

By Stephen Miller | Mar 28, 2013 | 4 Comments

Today, Transportation Alternatives is launching CrashStories, a new website where pedestrians and cyclists can report crashes or near-misses with motor vehicle drivers on an interactive map. Developed by Hunter College city planning graduate student Aaron Fraint, the project aims to fill gaps in official data sources and offer a place for crash victims to be heard. Data mapped […]

Eyes on the Street: NYPD (?!) Tells Greenpoint Drivers, “No Dooring”

By Stephen Miller | Mar 15, 2013 | 9 Comments

Here’s a welcome sign on the front door to Greenpoint Finest Deli, at the corner of Manhattan and Norman Avenues. The notice, ostensibly from NYPD, reminds drivers and passengers of their obligation to look before opening the door of parked cars. “Summonses will be issued,” the sign warns. The sign, spotted by Hilda Cohen, would be […]

DOT Plans Safer Walking and Biking Routes to Bronx River Greenway

By Stephen Miller | Mar 6, 2013 | 16 Comments

The Bronx River Greenway, threaded along the waterfront between expressways, railroad tracks and busy arterial avenues, is difficult to access for many of the surrounding South Bronx residents. A proposal from DOT [PDF] would improve park access while providing some order to the area’s streets. “It’s hard for folks in the neighborhood to get to […]

Mayoral Candidates Take a Stand on NYPD’s Treatment of… Transit Crime

By Stephen Miller | Feb 25, 2013 | 4 Comments

Quick, what aspect of police work and law enforcement were mayoral contenders addressing when they said the following at Friday’s candidate forum? Bill de Blasio: “It’s hard to report crimes and get the kind of response that you deserve…The police need more training to treat these crimes with urgency…Police need better training and we need […]

Why Does DOT Keep Taking Away Inwood Bike Infrastructure?

By Brad Aaron | Jan 8, 2013 | 17 Comments

A short stretch of bike lanes in Inwood has gone the way of the disappearing bike shelter, further reducing the neighborhood’s scarce cycling infrastructure. West 218th Street, Manhattan’s northernmost cross street to extend west of Broadway, connects Broadway and Inwood Hill Park, and delineates the southern border of the Columbia University Baker Field complex. It […]

Eyes on the Street: An Argument for Protected Bike Lanes in One Photograph

By Stephen Miller | Jan 7, 2013 | 34 Comments

Elevated from today’s headline stack: Photographer Dmitry Gudkov snapped this picture on Friday afternoon of a commercial van — the phone number goes to Glass & Windows, Inc., of Long Island City — straddling the concrete barrier that separates a two-way bike lane, and the sidewalk beyond, from the busy intersection where Flushing Avenue crosses beneath the Brooklyn […]

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