Recent Streetsblog NYC posts about Bike Lanes

Send Some Holiday Cheer to NYC Bike Planners [Updated]

By Ben Fried | Dec 22, 2008 | 15 Comments

Photo: ratherbebiking/Flickr Here’s a chance to send some positive reinforcement to the folks who cope with the incessant griping of the SoHo gentry, Williamsburg car owners, Council member Alan Gerson, and others who want to roll back and delay the strides New York City is taking to make streets safer for biking. A group of […]

Sean Sweeney: Soho Must Be Preserved for SUVs

By Ben Fried | Dec 17, 2008 | 42 Comments

Sean Sweeney, the one-man show known as the Soho Alliance, has been sending this video around to the media, continuing his quest to preserve Soho streets for the convenience of motorists. What we basically have here is a careless truck driver butting grilles with a sociopath behind the wheel of an SUV. Sweeney’s conclusion: Give […]

Business Has Nothing to Fear From Bike Lanes

By Brad Aaron | Dec 10, 2008 | 18 Comments

Florent Morellet. Photo: Kevin Cooley/New York Magazine As City Council Member Alan Gerson attempts to codify opposition to livable streets improvements, Lower Manhattan restaurateur Florent Morellet (a.k.a. the "Unofficial Mayor of the Meatpacking District") has filed a refreshing op-ed in The Villager, touting the commercial benefits of cyclist and pedestrian infrastructure. Our excerpt offers a […]

Streetfilms: Good Riddance to Wasted Asphalt

By Brad Aaron | Dec 9, 2008 | 9 Comments

Before Streetfilms were called Streetfilms, Clarence Eckerson and Streetsblog Publisher Mark Gorton identified Grand Street, with its expanse of asphalt forcing pedestrians to the margins, as a prime spot for space reclamation. Now home to a conniption-inducing parking-protected bike lane, check out this 2005 vid to see why Grand was due for a livable streets […]

Alan Gerson Wants Greater “Review” of DOT Bike Safety Plans

By Aaron Naparstek | Dec 8, 2008 | 20 Comments

In 2006, Alan Gerson helmeted-up and rallied for a protected bike lane on Houston St. On a day when you’d hope City Council members would be focused on the Bikes in Buildings bill, Manhattan City Councilman Alan Gerson is planning to introduce a new piece of legislation aimed at giving someone — presumably City Council […]

Pedestrians, Bus Riders, and Cyclists Get a Better Bronx Hub

By Ben Fried | Dec 1, 2008 | 9 Comments

These DOT photos [PDF] show off the revamped Bronx Hub — the shopping district and transit nexus in Melrose that just received a slew of livable streets improvements. Planters, surfacing, and a few strategically placed concrete islands demarcate pretty substantial new swaths of pedestrian space, including a block-long plaza (shown above and in bird’s eye […]

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