Recent Streetsblog NYC posts about Bicycle Safety

Petition: Tell DOT to Reverse the Curse on Brooklyn Speedways

By Ben Fried | Mar 25, 2009 | 12 Comments

How fast do cars travel on Prospect Park West? Criminally fast. All the time. Members of Park Slope Neighbors clocked cars routinely exceeding the 30 mph speed limit — including one sociopath racing at 65 mph — during a ten-minute stretch earlier this month. Prospect Park West and Eighth Avenue form a one-way pair funneling […]

Brooklynites Suggest Park Circle Safety Fixes

By Ben Fried | Feb 20, 2009 | 8 Comments

The west side of Park Circle viewed from Coney Island Avenue. About 40 Brooklynites turned out last night for a CB7-sponsored meeting to discuss the future of Park Circle, the asphalt expanse where Prospect Park meets traffic headed to and from the Prospect Expressway, Ocean Parkway, and the Fort Hamilton Parkway. There are two projects […]

Tonight: Give DOT Your Ideas for a Safer Park Circle

By Ben Fried | Feb 19, 2009 | 20 Comments

What would you change? DOT’s pedestrian projects group will present tonight at a public workshop about Park Circle, the roundabout at the southern tip of Prospect Park. Sponsored by Community Boards 7, 12, and 14, this is a preliminary meeting to define problems and collect ideas before improvements are designed. Given the vortex of auto […]

Use the Stimulus Bill to Complete Our Nation’s Streets

By Sarah Goodyear | Feb 19, 2009 | No Comments

One of the most encouraging moments in last week’s PBS NOW documentary about Charlotte, NC came when Mayor Pat McCrory pointed out the importance of "complete streets" to the success of the city’s new light rail system. "Transit alone doesn’t transform neighborhoods," said McCrory. "The key is how you connect those neighborhoods to the train […]

Speeding Kills, and 39 Percent of New York Drivers Are Doing It

By Brad Aaron | Feb 12, 2009 | 68 Comments

Could speed have caused yesterday’s pedestrian fatality? We’ll probably never know. Photo: New York Daily News A new report from Transportation Alternatives confirms what New York pedestrians and cyclists have been forced to accept as a fact of life: A high number of drivers speed through city streets, regardless of the potentially deadly consequences for […]

BYO Bike Lane

By Aaron Naparstek | Jan 16, 2009 | 12 Comments

Looking to circumvent a citywide bike lane injunction or avoid bike lane-related Community Board histrionics? Alex Tee and Evan Gant from the product design firm Altitude Inc. have a novel solution for you: Use laser beams to project your own lane from the back of your bicycle. Gant tells me that he and Tee developed […]

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