Recent Streetsblog NYC posts about Bike Lanes

Next Week: Testify at City Council About NYC Bike Policy

By Ben Fried and Noah Kazis | Dec 3, 2010 | 14 Comments

Heads up on an important calendar item for next week. On Thursday, the City Council Transportation Committee will hold an oversight hearing on bike policy, which is expected to focus on bike lanes and how they’re implemented. The public is invited to testify, so if you can spare the time to help explain to council […]

Bike Lane Cranks Get Star Turn in Times Bicycling Feature

By Ben Fried | Nov 22, 2010 | 19 Comments

The Times devoted a feature story today to NYC’s new bike lanes and the people who dislike them. Hard to argue with the timing of the piece. The separated lanes that went in on the East Side, Park Slope, and the Upper West Side this year are highly visible, they shake up the way the […]

Video: A View of NYC Cycling From Montreal

By Ben Fried | Nov 19, 2010 | 9 Comments

Noah and I are busy with meetings and the Stop Speeding Summit today, so posting may be a little light until the afternoon. I do have a couple of items to share, including this short video from EcoMobility.tv. I know the title is over-the-top and there’s some egregious wrong-way riding, but I like the outsider’s […]

Cyclists Blindsided By City’s Erasure of Father Capodanno Bike Lane

By Ben Fried | Nov 18, 2010 | 23 Comments

For the second time in 12 months, the Bloomberg administration will remove a link in the bicycle network after receiving complaints from bike lane opponents. The Staten Island Advance reports that the bike lane on Father Capodanno Boulevard will not be striped again after the street is repaved. The news comes two months after the […]

Still No Guarantee That East Side Bike Lanes Will Be Completed Next Year

By Ben Fried | Nov 16, 2010 | 6 Comments

Earlier today, Kate Hinds at Transportation Nation asked Transportation Commissioner Janette Sadik-Khan about the status of extending the East Side bike lanes north of 34th Street. She received an open-ended but not-so-encouraging response: KH: You said in the summer it wouldn’t happen in 2010; is it on the table for 2011? JSK: Not at the […]

CB 12 Squabbling Delays Upper Manhattan Bike Lane Discussion

By Noah Kazis | Nov 5, 2010 | 7 Comments

Build bike lanes? Manhattan’s Community Board 12 doesn’t even want to talk about bike lanes. When members of the Inwood-Washington Heights Livable Streets Group showed up with local bike lane supporters to what was supposed to be a public hearing on the issue Monday night, the transportation committee chair informed them that there wasn’t any […]

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