Recent Streetsblog NYC posts about Commuting

Bike to Work Day Open Thread

By Ben Fried | May 21, 2010 | 25 Comments

How was your ride to work today? Bike traffic on the Manhattan Bridge seemed heavier than usual. After I took a few pictures of the Sands Street bike path, I got onto the bridge approach with a platoon of about a dozen people on bikes. At the end of the bridge, an apple from the […]

Bike to Work Day Preview: Council Member Jimmy Van Bramer Rides Again

By Ben Fried | May 20, 2010 | 2 Comments

I think Al Roker’s Brompton ride to victory last week pretty much sealed the deal: Bike to Work Day has never been bigger. In San Francisco, where they observed the occasion last week, bikes accounted for 75 percent of morning rush hour traffic on Market Street, and most of the legislative and executive branches of […]

Rage-Free Rush Hour in Utrecht

By Brad Aaron | May 17, 2010 | 19 Comments

From Infrastructurist by way of Buzzfeed comes this video of bike commuters in Utrecht. With a population of around 300,000, Utrecht is the fourth largest city in the Netherlands, and has a 33 percent bike mode share. According to the write-up accompanying the YouTube post, this intersection handles "no less than" 18,000 bicycles and 2,500 […]

Al Roker Bikes to Victory in 2010 Commuter Race

By Ben Fried | May 14, 2010 | 14 Comments

This morning, the hosts of the Today Show played this segment for their 5.4 million viewers. It’s this year’s edition of Transportation Alternatives’ annual Great Commuter Race, where cyclist, transit rider, and motorist vie to see who gets to work first. TA’s Wiley Norvell emailed us to explain how the race made the transition to […]

Transit Check: Most New Yorkers Take Green Modes to Work

By Charles Komanoff | May 10, 2010 | 3 Comments

Everyone knows that public transit, not auto travel, is New York City’s transportation workhorse. Thus it was a little unsettling to get halfway through the ostensibly transit-friendly story in today’s Times, "Take a Taxicab to Work? More New Yorkers Walk," and read that mass transit doesn’t even account for half of the city’s commuting. The […]

Building an App to Help Neighbors Ride Together

By Noah Kazis | Mar 5, 2010 | 5 Comments

Of all the ways to improve your bike commute, riding with a friend might be the simplest. Not only do you have someone to talk to at red lights, you also become more visible and therefore more safe. With that in mind, Transportation Alternatives is working on a new tech solution called Bike Buddy to […]

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