Recent Streetsblog NYC posts about Bike Lanes

Bike Lanes Still Controversial to Michael Grynbaum, Opinion Poll Be Damned

By Ben Fried | Mar 30, 2011 | 12 Comments

If a bike lane gets striped and no one is there to report on it, would it still be “controversial”? Less than two weeks after a Quinnipiac poll revealed that 54 percent of NYC voters support the expansion of the bike network, New York Times transportation reporter Michael Grynbaum led off a story in today’s […]

Road Diets But No Bike Lanes for Two Queens Traffic Calming Projects

By Noah Kazis | Mar 25, 2011 | 45 Comments

DOT presented plans for two Long Island City street redesigns to Queens Community Board 2’s transportation committee last night. One, a standard road diet, would calm traffic on 44th Drive by replacing one moving lane in each direction with a painted median and left turn bays [PDF]. The other, a novel design for a single […]

Weiner: There’s No Need for “Warfare Over Bike Lanes”

By Brad Aaron | Mar 24, 2011 | 22 Comments

Queens Congressman Anthony Weiner has edged a little closer to clarifying his now-infamous “tearing out your [expletive] bike lanes” remark. Though he previously seemed to confirm what many suspected — that the Times, in its zeal for a juicy lede, turned an off-the-cuff exchange with Mayor Bloomberg into an indictment of transportation commissioner Janette Sadik-Khan […]

Top Bloomberg Adviser Sets Record Straight on Local Support for Bike Lanes

By Ben Fried | Mar 21, 2011 | 16 Comments

If you’re on the Twitter, you may have noticed that Howard Wolfson, a senior adviser and communications strategist for Mayor Bloomberg with a long resume in Democratic Party politics, has been tweeting up a #bikenyc storm lately. Wolfson’s bike tweets tend to focus on the lengthy record of public support for bike lanes — all […]

What Backlash? Q Poll Finds 54 Percent of NYC Voters Support Bike Lanes

By Ben Fried | Mar 18, 2011 | 44 Comments

After several months of almost uniformly bad press from NYC’s major media outlets, the expansion of the city’s bike network still enjoys sizable majority support among city voters, with 54 percent in favor and 39 percent opposed, according to a Quinnipiac poll released this morning. The poll is the first solid public opinion data on […]

Stringer Explains His “Philosophy of Public Engagement” on Street Designs

By Noah Kazis | Feb 11, 2011 | 18 Comments

Since Manhattan Borough President Scott Stringer has promised to take his approach to street redesigns, first put into place by the Columbus Avenue working group, borough-wide, Streetsblog decided to check in with him to see just what this process would look like. The details are still being worked out. Stringer wasn’t yet sure, for example, […]

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