Recent Streetsblog NYC posts about Bicycling

E-bikes confiscated by the 19th Precinct

Can Albany and the City Council Save NYC From de Blasio’s Backward E-Bike Policy?

By Brad Aaron | Feb 14, 2018 | 14 Comments

State lawmakers have again introduced legislation to classify e-bikes as bicycles, rather than motor vehicles. Council Member Rafael Espinal has authored a resolution in support of the Albany bill, and is calling on the mayor to stop targeting commercial cyclists.

STREETSBLOG USA

How America’s Bike Helmet Fixation Upholds a Culture of “Unfettered Automobility”

By Angie Schmitt | Feb 14, 2018 | No Comments

By almost any quantifiable safety metric, the helmet fixation has failed. People bike at low rates in the U.S. compared to international peers, and suffer higher injury and fatality rates per mile of cycling.

Sign the Petition to Fix Canal Street, “Manhattan’s Boulevard of Death”

By Brad Aaron | Feb 9, 2018 | 12 Comments

Canal Street is Manhattan's preeminent traffic sewer. A loud, dirty, menacing torrent of motorized traffic with cramped sidewalks and no designated space for bicycling, Canal gets pulverized by the "trucker's special," which gives motorists a free ride across Lower Manhattan via the untolled Manhattan Bridge to the untolled westbound Holland Tunnel.

Implementation of raised bike lanes on the Grand Concourse won't get underway until 2019, with at least three years of construction to follow. Image: DOT

Bronx Community Board 5 Committee Endorses Grand Concourse Redesign Up to Fordham Road

By David Meyer | Feb 7, 2018 | 4 Comments

There is no low-cost, quick-build version of the project, however, so residents won't reap the safety benefits until capital construction wraps up in 2022 (at the earliest).

De Blasio’s E-Bike Confiscations May Violate City Law

By Brad Aaron | Feb 7, 2018 | 10 Comments

NYPD appears to be snatching up e-bikes whether or not workers are using them - a practice that is arguably illegal.

NYPD Security Theater: Out of the Times Square Bike Lane and Onto the Sidewalk

By David Meyer | Feb 6, 2018 | 11 Comments

A few months after the city built a raised bike lane on Seventh Avenue to create a bicycling bypass around the Times Square plazas, NYPD closed if off with barricades in response to a fatal vehicular attack. Seven months later, the bike lane segment is free and clear.

Show More Stories