BikeNYC.org: Your Guide to Bike Month and Beyond

TA's ##http://bikenyc.org/##bikenyc.org##

Today is the first day of Bike Month 2012, and Transportation Alternatives has launched a comprehensive web site to make sure you don’t miss a thing.

At bikenyc.org you can plan your month with day-by-day event listings, and plan your routes with a Ride the City map. Best part: The site will be around when May is over, too.

ALSO ON STREETSBLOG

Caption Contest: Chan Declares Bike-Obsessed Cop a Vision Zero Hero

By Brad Aaron |
Thanking @NYPD20Pct Officer Vincek for his dedication & commitment to community concerns & #VisionZero. #UWS pic.twitter.com/JHM79Fbsv9 — Chief Thomas M. Chan (@NYPDTransport) July 8, 2015 Joshua Vincek is the 20th Precinct officer known for ticketing over 1,200 cyclists during a 38-month period when the entire precinct summonsed just 331 drivers for speeding. That’s not a typo. […]

Caption Contest: Customize This NYPost.com Bike Ad

By Ben Fried |
Transportation Alternatives’ Noah Budnick sends along this screen grab of a Linus Bikes ad recently served up to him on the New York Post’s website. It’s a testament to someone’s ad placement algorithms that this puppy can find its intended audience even on the site of a bike-hating rag like the Post. Here’s a thought […]

Residents Call for Better Crosstown Bike Routes on the Upper East Side

By Eric Jankiewicz |
About 30 Upper East Side residents hit the streets last Saturday to evaluate potential routes for crosstown bike lanes in their neighborhood. For the “street scan” organized by Transportation Alternatives and Bike New York, the volunteers split up evenly between people on foot and people on bikes. Both groups surveyed three possible east-west routes to document current conditions for biking. Currently, the Upper East […]

Will de Blasio’s Bike Lane Network Keep Pace With Citi Bike Expansion?

By Brad Aaron |
A City Council hearing on bike infrastructure is about to get underway this afternoon, where council members will “focus on ways to improve” NYC bike infrastructure, according to a press release from Ydanis Rodriguez, the transportation chair. One issue that Transportation Alternatives will be highlighting at the hearing is the mismatch between the existing bike […]

Watch: Bike to Work Week TV Advertisement From 1993

By Stephen Miller |
New York in 1993 has been a topic of discussion since the New Museum opened its exhibit exploring the city of two decades ago. Now, another time capsule has been unearthed: a promotional video from Transportation Alternatives inviting New Yorkers to take part in Bike to Work Week. While some things have remained the same […]

Friday Jobs Market

By Streetsblog |
Looking to hire a smart, qualified person for a position in transportation planning, engineering, IT, or advocacy? Post a listing on the Streetsblog Jobs Board and reach our national audience of dedicated readers. Looking for a job? Here are the current listings: New York City Bike Ambassador, Leads, Transportation Alternatives, New York, NY Transportation Alternatives seeks experienced, […]