Recent Streetsblog NYC posts about Bicycle Safety

Bike & Ped Improvements Slated for Manhattan Bridge Approach

By Sarah Goodyear | Aug 27, 2007 | 18 Comments

DOT plans to build a physically-separated two-way bike lane on this one block stretch of Canal Street at the foot of the Manhattan Bridge. The project also includes pedestrian safety fixes. The Manhattan approach to the Manhattan Bridge, where Chinatown and the Lower East Side come together in a jumble, has long presented one of […]

Survey Finds That Buffered Bike Lanes Are Better

By Aaron Naparstek | Aug 24, 2007 | 17 Comments

A buffered section of Manhattan’s 8th Avenue bike lane. Bike lanes that separate bicyclists from motor vehicle traffic are safer and encourage more bicycling, according to a recent survey by Transportation Alternatives. The survey of 147 cyclists was conducted along the 8th Avenue bike lane in Manhattan, one of the few bike paths to integrate […]

Central Park 66th Street Transverse Is Unsafe

By Glenn McAnanama | Aug 22, 2007 | 11 Comments

A Streetsblog reader brings us an update on the case of the cyclist killed last December in the Central Park Transverse, through information obtained via a Freedom of Information Act request. In the documents sent to Streetsblog, it shows that the motor vehicle "struck the bicyclist as both vehicles attempted to merge into the same path […]

Cyclists Throwing Selves Under Cars in Brooklyn

By Brad Aaron | Aug 20, 2007 | 28 Comments

The Daily News reports that more cyclists are getting hit by cars in Williamsburg and Greenpoint — an increase of 38 percent and 188 percent, respectively, over last year. While Transportation Alternatives cites dangerous conditions created by the lack of bike lanes, the News draws a different conclusion: [T]he numbers don’t lie. Stats show that […]

The Cars That Ate New York

By Jason Varone | Aug 14, 2007 | No Comments

Adam J. Schwartz, who has a really interesting looking exhibit up at the Brooklyn History Society called Up From Flames, sends along this rather intense photo of a bike crash in Bushwick. As one commenter noted after seeing the photo, "Looks like a faulty bicycle." Another commenter replied, "Looks to me like a faulty traffic […]

DOT Media Blitz Forthcoming

By Aaron Naparstek | Jul 13, 2007 | 16 Comments

Laura Conaway at the Village Voice caught the filming of a bike lane-related television ad near Lafayette and E. 4th Street yesterday. We’re guessing that either MyBikeLane brought in some venture capital funding and is going big-time or the Dept. of Transportation was filming a public service advertisement. We’re leaning towards the latter because we’ve […]

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