Recent Streetsblog NYC posts about Protected Bike Lanes

Jim Walden Tries to Distance Bike Lane Lawsuit From Weinshall and Schumer

By Ben Fried | Mar 23, 2011 | 31 Comments

This morning, Gibson Dunn attorney Jim Walden continued his media tour calling attention to the lawsuit he filed earlier this month to remove the Prospect Park West bike lane. Appearing on the Brian Lehrer show, Walden tried to distance the group he represents from former DOT Commissioner Iris Weinshall and her husband, Senator Chuck Schumer. […]

Law Profs: PPW Lawsuit Unlikely to Succeed

By Noah Kazis | Mar 23, 2011 | 7 Comments

Suing the city has earned the well-connected opponents of the Prospect Park West bike lane a lot of media attention, but ultimately their lawyer, Gibson Dunn’s Jim Walden, will have to show up in court and make his case that the lane was illegal. According to the legal experts we spoke to, that case looks […]

Brooklyn CB 6 Committees Vote Unanimously for DOT’s Next Steps on PPW

By Ben Fried | Mar 18, 2011 | 12 Comments

The transportation and public safety committees of Brooklyn Community Board 6 unanimously approved a motion last night supporting DOT’s proposals to, among other things, add raised concrete pedestrian islands and bike “rumble strips” to the redesigned Prospect Park West. The full resolution is quite lengthy and includes a few of the committee’s own recommendations, like […]

PPW Plaintiffs Cherrypicked Data to Attack DOT’s Bike Lane Evaluation

By Ben Fried | Mar 17, 2011 | 10 Comments

Opponents of the Prospect Park West bike lane got some page views in the Park Slope Patch yesterday, repeating arguments from their lawsuit against the city [PDF] (arguments that have also been published, basically unaltered and unanalyzed, in the Daily News and the Post). Their core claim is that DOT should not have used three-year […]

A Transportation Engineer Weighs in on the Prospect Park West Lawsuit

By Gary Toth | Mar 16, 2011 | 8 Comments

Gary Toth is currently director of transportation initiatives at Project for Public Spaces. Previously, during his career with the New Jersey Department of Transportation, Gary was one of the architects of the agency’s transformation to a national leader in context-sensitive transportation planning. He sent us these thoughts in response to the lawsuit filed earlier this […]

Video: What It’s Like to Walk Across the Prospect Park West Bike Lane

By Ben Fried | Mar 16, 2011 | 18 Comments

One of the arguments we’ve been hearing from opponents of the Prospect Park West bike lane is that the redesign makes it difficult to see bike traffic as you cross from the west side of the street to the park side. So, how hard is it to get a clear view of the two-way bike […]

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