Bicycle Safety
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Blumenauer, Bipartisan Co-Sponsors Set Out to Improve Street Safety Metrics
After a long period of inaction on Capitol Hill, the wheels are beginning to turn again. Lawmakers introduced not one but two good transportation-related bills yesterday: one that aims to improve the safety of walking and biking and one that would establish a national infrastructure bank.
November 15, 2013
CB 12 Committee Endorses Ped Improvements at Chaotic Inwood Intersection
Long-awaited improvements to a hazardous Broadway crossing in Inwood could be implemented next year, if Community Board 12 passes a resolution that cleared the board's transportation committee this week.
November 7, 2013
Eyes on the Street: Bronx River Greenway Access Streets Get Upgrades
The Bronx River Greenway has given many South Bronx residents a place to feel comfortable biking, but the streets nearby are often filled with speeding drivers navigating sometimes-confusing intersections. A project adding bike lanes, curb extensions, and lane striping aimed to fix that -- and since the end of the summer residents have seen some of the results. An anonymous reader who lives in Soundview and commutes by bike through the area sent in some photos showing the changes.
November 1, 2013
Victims Share Tales of SFPD Anti-Bike Bias and Hostility at City Hall
When Sarah Harling was hospitalized by a minivan driver who made a left turn into her at a stop sign intersection, she says the SFPD officer who filed the police report included a fabricated statement from her claiming that she "approached the stop sign without stopping."
October 8, 2013
Eyes on the Street: Pedestrian Island Construction on Columbus Avenue
DOT continues to make progress with the extension of the Columbus Avenue protected bike lane. Doug Gordon sent us these shots, taken this morning, of pedestrian island construction at 75th and 73rd Streets.
September 5, 2013
Eyes on the Street: Who Will Protect the Protected Bike Lane From NYPD?
Reader David Holowka sent these photos of NYPD breaking the law and putting cyclists' lives at risk on Eighth Avenue, across from Madison Square Garden near a massive Citi Bike station.
August 9, 2013
At City Hall, Advocates Call on Mayoral Candidates to Tackle Street Safety
In the wake of a string of pedestrian fatalities, more than 100 people gathered on the steps of City Hall this morning at an event organized by Transportation Alternatives to demand that mayoral candidates step up to address street safety.
August 7, 2013
The Citi Bike Story No One’s Talking About: Only 3 Injuries in 500,000 Rides
It seems like the local press has run through so many permutations of the Citi Bike story that now it's time to recycle Citi Bike stories from a year ago.
July 3, 2013
At Long Last, DOT Proposes Bike Lanes for Upper Manhattan
Responding to years of citizen advocacy and a resolution from Manhattan Community Board 12, DOT has proposed bike lanes for a number of streets in Upper Manhattan.
June 6, 2013
Daily News Tries Race-Baiting to Gin Up Controversy Over Safer Streets
It's truly amazing how much work the tabloids put into opposing measures that save lives. Take today's Daily News, which resorted to race-baiting to gin up controversy over hard-won bike lanes in Upper Manhattan.
May 29, 2013