Bicycle Infrastructure
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Op-Ed: Survey Shows Demand for More Bike Lanes
Upper West Siders urgently want more protected bike lanes in order to accommodate an expected surge of newbie cyclists after the coronavirus pandemic — pointing the way forward for our city.
May 19, 2020
Op-Ed: A Tale of (Transporting) Two Families
Mobility options are unequal for different classes of New Yorkers — but not if we decide to invest in transportation alternatives.
May 11, 2020
Court Swats Away NIMBY Anti-Bike-Path Claim on East Side
A bike bridge isn't a seizure of parkland — it IS parkland, the court essentially said.
May 11, 2020
Op-Ed: Four Ideas To Bolster Cycling During the COVID-19 Crisis and Beyond
Cities around the world have turned to biking to help ease crises, leading to permanent mobility changes. Here's ways cycling could help New York, too.
April 21, 2020
Mayor Has No Citi Bike Expansion Plan Despite Tweet Offering Citi Bike Expansion
It turns out that a promise on Twitter is an empty promise.
April 19, 2020
More Healthcare Workers Are Biking, Showing Urgency For Safe Routes Through Central Park
But the city says "at this time there are no immediate plans" to make the crosstown transverses safe.
April 13, 2020
Op-Ed: Skip the Victim-Blaming on Bike Lanes, New York Times!
Health columnist Jane Brody, usually a beacon of sense, gets city cycling badly wrong, a traffic expert says.
April 9, 2020
Cops Arrest Unlicensed Driver Who Seriously Injured Teen Cyclist On Ocean Parkway
Yet even during a well-documented rash in speeding, cops still blamed the victim.
April 6, 2020
Hey, Empire State Building, Maybe You Can Sound the Alert About How Dangerous Brooklyn is For Cyclists
Cyclists are still being injured in Southern Brooklyn at a disproportionate rate.
April 2, 2020
Bike Injuries Still Up for the Year — And Southern Brooklyn Cyclists are Disproportionately Hurt
The plurality of cyclist injuries between March 16 and 22 were still in the same Southern Brooklyn neighborhoods.
March 30, 2020