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The Times Finally Opines on Street Safety: ‘Calm Traffic’ By Ticketing Cyclists

By Ben Fried | Dec 17, 2010 | 54 Comments

Today’s Times editorial on cycling enforcement (the kicker: a few more tickets for bicyclists “would certainly calm traffic in New York City”) is generating a stir. What I want to know is this: Why did the Times editorial writers choose to pipe up about this particular aspect of street safety? Correct me if I’m wrong, […]

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 […]

Post Reader to Cuozzo: Why Not Acknowledge That Streets Are Getting Safer?

By Charles Komanoff | Nov 9, 2010 | 8 Comments

Streetsblog contributor Charles Komanoff wrote this letter to New York Post columnist Steve Cuozzo yesterday morning. At the time we posted it, he had yet to receive a reply. Hi Steve — I wrote you two years ago, contrasting your column in the Post disparaging the Grand Street bike lane, with my son’s and my […]

Marcia Kramer Exposes the Threat of Pedestrian Refuges [Updated]

By Ben Fried | Nov 5, 2010 | 42 Comments

I had to pull this Marcia Kramer segment out of the headline stack and post it, because you’ve got to see it to believe it. Earlier this week, CBS2’s chief political correspondent went down to Borough Park to expose the pedestrian refuge threat. Intro: “The Department of Transportation has struck again.” With its outlandish Safe […]

Crain’s Asks: Should Manhattan Give Up on Bike Lanes?

By Ben Fried | Oct 13, 2010 | 8 Comments

This poll on the Crain’s site has been tearing through the Twitterverse rather ferociously this afternoon: I dunno. Should NYC call it quits after a few successful years of trying something new on the streets? Should the city give up on policies that are reducing injuries to pedestrians, cyclists and motorists? With bike traffic into […]

S.I. Advance: Capodanno Plagued By Speeding, So Get Rid of the Bike Lane

By Ben Fried | Sep 24, 2010 | 19 Comments

Earlier this week the Downtown Express injected some common sense into the public discussion about the value of bike lanes. With protected lanes on Ninth and Eighth Avenue now a valued safety improvement after facing some pushback at first, the paper predicted that initial complaints about the new lanes on the East Side will subside […]

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