Recent Streetsblog NYC posts about Bicycle Parking

Cyclists Be Warned: New City Bike Racks May Not be Secure

By Aaron Naparstek | Jun 8, 2007 | 24 Comments

From: stephanie — redbike606[at]yahoo[dot]comSent: Thursday, June 07, 2007 11:54 PMTo: tips@streetsblog.orgSubject: atlantic ave bike racks Hi Streetsblog, You may have noticed that there are new bike racks all up on Atlantic Avenue [in Brooklyn]. They’ve been installed all along Atlantic, from Clinton to 4th avenue, on both sides of the street. Initially, I […]

Eyes on the Street: A Historic Sidewalk Widening in Williamsburg

By Aaron Naparstek | Jun 8, 2007 | 2 Comments

A Streestblog tipster snapped this photo of workers in Williamsburg, Brooklyn preparing the southeast corner of Bedford Avenue and N. 7th Street for a historic sidewalk widening. So, what’s the big deal? This project represents the first time ever in New York City that on-street car parking spaces have been eliminated to make way for […]

NYPD Raid Nets Bikes and Bystanders

By Jason Varone | Jun 5, 2007 | 32 Comments

This entry on the Village Voice Blog by Laura Conaway tells the story of an NYPD raid on parked bicycles last Wednesday night. When two residents questioned the officer in charge, they were arrested: Sparks from the NYPD’s circular saws arced through the night. Police, some in plainclothes, were piling cycles by the dozen in […]

StreetFilms: Secure Bike Parking for Pennies per Hour

By Clarence Eckerson Jr. | May 14, 2007 | 23 Comments

In the East Bay area of California you’ll find electronic, on-demand Bike Link locking facilities that provide secure bike parking for between 3 to 5 cents per hour! The lockers were created by eLock Technologies, which runs the Bike Link facilities. While not ubiquitous just yet, according to Robert Rayburn, Executive Director of the East […]

StreetFilms: Berkeley’s Bikestation

By Clarence Eckerson Jr. | May 8, 2007 | 16 Comments

This is the first of three videos StreetFilms will be posting in the coming week about innovative bike parking ideas in the California East Bay Area. Dave Campbell of the Bicycle-Friendly Berkeley Coalition gives a quick tour of a Bikestation facility in Berkeley — a bicycles actually have their own parking attendant. In a much […]

Building a Better Bike Lane

By Jason Varone | May 4, 2007 | 31 Comments

This weekend’s Wall Street Journal has an massive, full-page report on bike friendly cities in Europe. Initially the arguments for more biking were mostly about health and congestion, but in the last year concern for the environment has become an important factor compelling people to travel by bicycle: Flat, compact and temperate, the Netherlands and […]

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