Recent Streetsblog NYC posts about Bicycle Safety

Will Cuomo Spend Bike-Ped Funds on Bike-Ped Projects?

By Brad Aaron | Oct 1, 2012 | 2 Comments

With MAP-21 taking effect today, city and state transportation advocates are calling on Governor Cuomo and the New York State Department of Transportation to devote all of its federal bike-ped funds to walking and cycling infrastructure. The coalition of just over 100 groups is also asking that the state make available millions of dollars, allocated as part […]

DOT and TLC Unveil New Anti-Dooring Video and Decal

By Stephen Miller | Sep 25, 2012 | 12 Comments

At a press conference at Union Square this morning, DOT and the Taxi and Limousine Commission announced another facet of the LOOK! campaign, a new video and a decal reminding taxi passengers to exit on the curb side and check for cyclists before opening cab doors. DOT Commissioner Janette Sadik-Khan, Deputy Mayor Howard Wolfson and […]

New Data Debunks “Bike Bedlam” Sensationalism

By Ben Fried | Jun 15, 2012 | 36 Comments

New data is online about the extent of bike-on-ped crashes in New York City, and it adds some much-needed perspective to the public discourse about the “safety crisis” on city streets. According to reports collected by NYPD and compiled online by NYC DOT [PDF], police responded to 27 bike-ped collisions citywide in the last three […]

Reader Report: Parks to Close Upper Manhattan Greenway Link for Two Years

By Brad Aaron | Jun 7, 2012 | 16 Comments

We have word that a major bike-ped link to the Hudson River Greenway in Northern Manhattan will be out of commission later this year. Long-time Streetsblog reader (and sometime contributor) Lars Klove was at a meeting this week where NYC Parks Department officials informed Community Board 12 that a bridge over the Amtrak tracks connecting […]

A Compulsory Helmet Law Won’t Make NYC Cyclists Safer

By Charles Komanoff | Jun 6, 2012 | 52 Comments

The great thing about arguments favoring compulsory bike helmet laws is that they tend to stay on topic instead of degenerating into fruitless bickering over cyclists’ interactions with pedestrians, bike riders’ claim to the streets, and other tired subjects. The bad things about such arguments are many. Here are three: They ignore the possibility that […]

Memo to Daily News: Local NYC Streets Could Also Use State DOT Attention

By Brad Aaron | May 3, 2012 | 2 Comments

After two crashes in six years that caused 13 fatalities and an outcry from an indignant press corps suddenly obsessed with traffic safety, the New York State Department of Transportation has turned its attention to the Bronx River Parkway. The concrete barriers planned for the parkway seem designed to facilitate speeding, but the state DOT […]

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