Central Park Cyclist in Serious Condition
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Channel 7 has the story of a woman hit by a car in Central Park last night. (By the way, buy a Toyota!)
Recent Streetsblog NYC posts about Bicycle Safety
Streetfilms: Memorial for Eric Ng
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Eric Ng MemorialStreetfilms by Clarence EckersonRunning time: 3 minutes 17 seconds Eric Ng, a 22-year-old teacher and activist, was killed on December 1 by a drunk driver as he rode his bicycle on the Hudson River Greenway. Yesterday, Time’s Up! and Visual Resistance organized a series of events to pay tribute to Eric’s memory. Clarence […]
Drunk Driver Kills Cyclist on Hudson River Greenway
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Gothamist has the sad, outrageous story.
NYPD Has Spent $1.32M to Suppress a Monthly Bike Ride
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Charles Komanoff, flanked by Marquez Claxton and Norman Siegel, at City Hall this morning. Time’s Up took its campaign for safe bicycling into the economic arena this morning with release of a report documenting the Bloomberg administration’s squandering of New Yorkers’ tax dollars in suppressing the Critical Mass bike rides. With the City Hall steps […]
New Bike Stencils Completed on the Lower East Side
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As on Brookyn’s Fifth Avenue this weekend, it looks like DOT has finished installing the new Class III bike route stencils on Clinton and Delancey Streets. If you ride this route, let Streetsblog know what you think of these. Related: New "Shared Lane" Bike Route Design Spotted in Manhattan New Bike Markings on the Upper West Side City […]
Gridlock Sam Tells the Story of NYC’s First Bike Lanes
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Last weekend, former DOT Deputy Commissioner "Gridlock" Sam Schwartz wrote an op-ed in the New York Times urging the city to start creating bike lanes that physically separate cyclists from motor vehicle traffic at some locations. This weekend, as DOT laid down a brand new "shared lane" design on Fifth Avenue in Brooklyn, a letter to the editor […]