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Bike-Share NIMBY Flyer: Make Cobble Hill Great Again
A tipster spotted this flyer on Douglass Street in Cobble Hill, where Citi Bike will be expanding this year:
June 29, 2016
The World’s Nuttiest Bike Lane NIMBYs Live in a San Diego Beach Community
Think you've read about every possible NIMBY objection to bike lanes? Think again. These recent comments from a public meeting in San Diego’s affluent Coronado beach community are definitely, um, different.
September 24, 2015
How the Post Engineers Bike-Share Bashing, Facts Be Damned
It took a few days, but the Post found someone to go along with its bike-scare nonsense, according to the Post.
May 23, 2013
New York Post Serving as Stenographers for Bike-Share Litigants [Updated]
Update: Streetsblog had a call in to FDNY about the Post story. After this post went up, we talked with spokesperson Frank Dwyer, who said: "We had no operational or response issues to this call. Period."
May 21, 2013
FDNY: “We Haven’t Had Any Issues” With Bike-Share Locations
Republican mayoral candidate Joseph Lhota, on WNYC's Brian Lehrer Show yesterday, said that while he didn't "know this for a fact," he views the bike-share program as an example of failed agency coordination in the Bloomberg administration, because he'd read press reports that people were complaining about new bike-share stations potentially impeding emergency response. Despite Lhota's speculation, based off hysterical media reports, the Fire Department says they were consulted by DOT and that the stations have not been a problem.
May 3, 2013
Trolley Terror! Meet the Original Prospect Park West NIMBYs
Norm Steisel, Louise Hainline, Iris Weinshall, and their anti-bike "Better Bike Lane" comrades aren't the first well-to-do, politically connected bunch to wage war against a new configuration for Prospect Park West. According to a fascinating Curbed piece from the Weekly Nabe's Keith Williams, another powerful NIMBY cadre once sought to undermine a nascent progressive transportation movement. In the late 19th century, the object of fear and loathing was the electric trolley.
April 26, 2013
Businessman Who Protested 1st Ave Safety Fixes: It’s the 9-Year-Old’s Fault
NYPD and Manhattan District Attorney Cy Vance are reportedly targeting a crossing guard for her supposed role in the death of 6-year-old Amar Diarrassouba, who was killed by a truck driver in East Harlem Thursday morning. Meanwhile, a local businessman and community board member who waged a campaign against pedestrian refuges and protected bike lanes on First and Second Avenues has publicly pinned the blame on the victim's 9-year-old brother.
March 1, 2013
Union Square Skateboarder Was Killed on Rejected Pedestrian Plaza Space
The crash that killed a skateboarder near Union Square yesterday occurred on a block that DOT intended to use as a part-time pedestrian plaza until the agency capitulated to neighborhood NIMBYs.
November 21, 2012
Can East Side NIMBYs Thwart the UN Bike-Share Terror Threat?
Ban Ki-moon may be pleased by the prospect of bike-share docks near the United Nations, but self-styled security advisors from the neighborhood are second-guessing the secretary general. DNAinfo reports:
June 19, 2012