Recent Streetsblog NYC posts about Bicycle Infrastructure

Gut Check: New Yorkers Need to Speak Up For Bike Policy

By Ben Fried | Jan 19, 2011 | 22 Comments

Yesterday the Post came out with another attack on the ongoing evolution of New York into a city where transit works better, streets are safer, and people have better options for getting around. Using a Post-manufactured squabble over the city’s Christmas blizzard response as their set-up, the editorialists launched into a screed against Transportation Commissioner […]

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Marin County Opens New Tunnel For Biking, Walking and Rolling

By Clarence Eckerson Jr. | Dec 14, 2010 | No Comments

Hundreds of cyclists and pedestrians — and more than a few elected officials — turned out on Friday afternoon last week to cut the ribbon on an impressive piece of infrastructure for human-powered travel — the long-awaited Cal Park Tunnel in Marin County, California. The project has been talked about since the late 1970s and […]

Bikes on Bridges: A How-To Guide for Advocates

By Tanya Snyder | Dec 10, 2010 | No Comments

The country’s crisis of crumbling infrastructure could be a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to expand bicycle access. With one out of every four U.S. bridges deemed deficient, obsolete, or inadequate, a spate of bridge reconstruction is already overdue. And as planners start engineering the improvements, pedestrians and cyclists have to make sure they’re part of the process. […]

Quick Hits From Today’s City Council Hearing on Bike Policy

By Ben Fried | Dec 9, 2010 | 50 Comments

The line to testify at today’s Transportation Committee hearing on New York City bike policy was snaking outside into the biting cold well before the 10:00 a.m. start time. More than 70 people signed up to speak, filling up two hearing rooms at 250 Broadway. The first few hours of the hearing, however, belonged to […]

Dutch Planners School U.S. Cities on Bikeability

By Tanya Snyder | Nov 18, 2010 | No Comments

In the Netherlands, 30 percent of trips under five miles are by bike. I know, I know, Euro-envy can get a little old. So the Dutch are trying to give us a little less to be jealous of. What if our streets were as bike-friendly as theirs? We could get there. Our trip patterns aren’t […]

Eyes on the Street: A Bike-Friendly Approach to the Q’Boro

By Ben Fried | Nov 12, 2010 | 18 Comments

We’ve got another highlight from 2010 construction season to share with you. A two-way, protected approach to the Queens side of the Queensboro Bridge bike-ped path has been paved, striped and open for business since the end of October. Clarence took these photos of the new approach, part of a package of bicycle and pedestrian […]

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