Recent Streetsblog NYC posts about Bicycle Safety

Portland Water Bureau Launches Bike/Truck Safety Campaign

By Brad Aaron | Oct 16, 2008 | 8 Comments

Check out this video, via BikePortland.org, on bicycle safety, part of a Portland Water Bureau campaign to reduce truck-cyclist collisions there. Last month, the Water Bureau held a bike safety seminar, which involved cyclists climbing into the cab of a city truck to see (or not see) driver blind spots for themselves. The accompanying vid […]

Manhattan Bridge Bike Path Mired for Years in Construction Bureaucracy

By Ben Fried | Sep 30, 2008 | 17 Comments

The Sands Street bike path, a physically protected approach to the Manhattan Bridge, has languished behind schedule for years, held up in the city's construction bureaucracy. The project serves as a prime illustration that livable streets hinge not just on DOT, but on other, more obscure city agencies as well.

Death of Cyclist Shocks Melbourne, Prompts Bus Ban

By Ken Coughlin | Sep 22, 2008 | 7 Comments

As I wrote in a post last week, the City of Melbourne, Australia, is working hard to make cycling easier and safer — but not quickly enough to save the life of one cyclist. The day after my post a 33-year-old Melbourne woman was killed when her wheels slipped on tram tracks on Melbourne’s main […]

Sen. Jeff Klein to No Impact Man: “Hands Off My Car, You F–king A–hole”

By Brad Aaron | Sep 18, 2008 | 59 Comments

A couple of days ago we relayed the remarkable story of Colin Beavan’s close call with a careless motorist, which ended with the parties shaking hands. Yesterday, No Impact Man encountered another inattentive driver — one State Senator Jeff Klein — but this time there were no heartwarming epiphanies. Here is Beavan’s account, via an […]

A Close Call, a Confrontation, a Conciliatory Ending

By Brad Aaron | Sep 16, 2008 | 10 Comments

Following two recent cyclist deaths in Brooklyn, conflicts between motor vehicles and bikes — and how to reduce them — are once again a subject of impassioned debate among Streetsblog commenters. Here is Colin Beavan, a.k.a. No Impact Man, with a story of a recent cyclist-motorist confrontation and an extraordinary resolution. Riding my rickshaw on […]

Ride for a Safer Queens Boulevard Tonight

By Ben Fried | Sep 12, 2008 | 6 Comments

In July, bicycle advocates and family members of Asif Rahman, who was killed while biking on Queens Boulevard earlier this year, called on the city to transform the "Boulevard of Death" into a street that safely serves all users. The effort to make Queens Boulevard a complete street continues tonight at 6:30 p.m., when Transportation […]

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