Bicycle Safety
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Cyclists Demand More Bike Lanes, Less Community Boards and Even Some Roads of their Own
One hundred miles of protected bike lanes in two years. No cars on some key routes for cyclists. Less engagement with community boards. And no more delays in life-saving road redesigns "for non-transportation-related political reasons." It's a start.
July 18, 2019
Mayor: I Want to Do Citi Bike on the Cheap (And I’ll Try to Keep Riders Safe)
Citi Bike is the only form of mass transit that does not get a public subsidy. Mayor de Blasio does not want to change that.
July 17, 2019
Ballistic Firefighter Who Used His Car to Run Down a Cyclist is Back on Duty
Taxpayers are again paying the salary of firefighter Brauley de la Rosa, who was arrested last month for using his Dodge muscle car as a battering ram against a cyclist.
July 17, 2019
Biking While Female — ‘Slut,’ ‘Bitch,’ and ‘Dumb Broad’
Women share their stories of intimidation on the roads, proving again that car culture is bro culture.
July 17, 2019
Um, Injuries to Cyclists Are Actually UP In Eight of 10 ‘Priority Bicycle Districts’
Injuries to cyclists continue to rise in community boards that the Department of Transportation identified as safety priority areas, according to data crunched by Streetsblog.
July 16, 2019
See It! Two Men Physically Intimidate A Woman Citi Biker For Allegedly Touching Their Precious SUV
Cycling is about to have its long overdue #MeToo movement as aggressive male drivers are once again caught on tape abusing a woman.
July 16, 2019
Miraculous Safety Toilet Plungers Fix Fifth Avenue Mixing Zones For Just $4.99
Turning mixing zones into plunger zones led to a huge increase in safe driving.
July 10, 2019
NYPD’s Reckless Driver ‘Crackdown’ is a Breezy Three-Week Affair
Fifteen cyclists are dead and this is all the NYPD can come up with — a three-week ticket blitz?
July 2, 2019
Cyclist Critically Wounded by Driver in 2016 Has Died of His Injuries
A Borough Park boy who was struck by a driver on his way to synagogue nearly three years ago has died of his injuries, Streetsblog has learned.
July 2, 2019
‘End Legal Murder In NYC’! Hundreds Mourn Cyclist Robyn Hightman in Memorial Ride
Hundreds of cyclists rode from Williamsburg to Chelsea last night, taking over the roadway from lower Manhattan to 23rd Street, in a memorial ride for 20-year-old Robyn Hightman, a bike courier who this week became the 12th cyclist killed on New York City streets in 2019.
June 28, 2019
