Recent Streetsblog NYC posts about Bicycling

London Cycling Works: How Savvy Campaigning Got 180 Employers to Support Bike Lanes

By Clarence Eckerson Jr. | Dec 6, 2017 | No Comments

In 2014, there was an intense bikelash in London in reaction to groundbreaking, high-quality protected bike lanes in the city center. London CyclingWorks played a critical role in countering this pushback, gathering endorsements of the new bike infrastructure from a wide range of businesses in central London.

Parks Dept Closes Hudson River Greenway Segment With Little Public Notice

By David Meyer | Dec 1, 2017 | 15 Comments

A reader who bikes the greenway daily said there was no advance notice about the detour, which directs cyclists to a pedestrian path that's crowded with joggers and dog walkers. No signs indicate when the closure will end.

These bike lane-cluttering barricades come courtesy of the NYPD.

NYPD Security Theater Takes Manhattan

By David Meyer | Dec 1, 2017 | 13 Comments

Obtrusive new police barriers interfering with walking and biking paths are cropping up in Midtown and elsewhere. Do you feel safer, New York?

CANCELED: DOT's preliminary design for the new bike parking structures. Image: DOT

DOT Will Try Out a New Way to Provide Secure Bike Parking

By David Meyer | Nov 30, 2017 | 53 Comments

If you need to park your bike outside in New York, you never really know if all your components will be there by the time you get back. Though garages have to provide bike parking options by law, affordable secure bike parking is still in short supply. DOT is looking to change that.

Eyes on the Street: Jay Street Bikeway Segment Connects DUMBO to Downtown Brooklyn and the Manhattan Bridge

By Ben Fried | Nov 29, 2017 | 7 Comments

This short, contraflow parking-protected bike lane segment gives cyclists a safe, direct route out of DUMBO.

NYPD Tickets Cyclists Where Speeding Driver Killed 14-Year-Old Edwin Ajacalon

By David Meyer | Nov 29, 2017 | 86 Comments

For the past two days, police have been ticketing cyclists on Fifth Avenue and 25th Street in Brooklyn's 72nd Precinct, just two blocks from where a driver killed 14-year-old Edwin Ajacalon on Saturday.

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