Skip to Content
Streetsblog New York City home
Streetsblog New York City home
Log In
Op/Ed

A Round and a Roundy: Dead Men Tell No Tales … in Support of Bike Lanes

Cartoon: Bill Roundy

It's our December donation drive. Your gift helps us do important stories. So please click here or the icon above.
It’s our December donation drive. Your gift helps us do important stories. So please click here or the icon above.

Our national treasure cartoonist Bill Roundy has noticed of late that whenever a group of people in a neighborhood expresses support for a bike lane, there’s always a revanchist force that claims to have “asked around” and discovered that no one, in fact, wants that bike lane.

You’ll recall that very exchange last month in East Flatbush, when Community Board 17 Transportation Committee Chairman Roderick Daley countered a Department of Transportation proposal for painted lanes by saying, “I have done my own survey talking to people in the community about bike lanes [and] I have not gotten any positive feedback from anyone.”

Editorial cartoon of Bill Roundy by editorial cartoonist Bill Roundy.
Editorial cartoon of Bill Roundy by editorial cartoonist Bill Roundy.
Editorial cartoon of Bill Roundy by editorial cartoonist Bill Roundy.

And we heard the same fear-mongering from members of Community Board 2 earlier this month when residents of Fort Greene got the DOT to consider their proposal to turn the stub end of one-way Gates Avenue into a car-free half-block between Fulton and Vanderbilt avenues after a 3-month-old baby was killed there by a driver.

Well, Bill Roundy has heard it, too, and he’s fed up. So he decided to take his own poll — and, sure enough, this year’s 32 dead cyclists and moped riders, and the 112 dead pedestrians were indeed silent when he asked if anyone wanted more street safety infrastructure.

All of Bill Roundy’s cartoons are archived here. Collect ’em all!

Stay in touch

Sign up for our free newsletter

More from Streetsblog New York City

Cough, Cough: DEP Considers Largest Ever Exemption Request to City’s Anti-Idling Law

Academy Bus claims no technological alternatives exist for heating and cooling buses without idling. Advocates warn an exemption would "gut" the city's 50-year-old idling ban.

October 23, 2025

Truckers to US DOT: Busways Are Good for Us!

The federal government has obviously lost its trucking mind.

October 23, 2025

Thursday’s Headlines: Protect The Election Edition

How to be a bike monitor at election sites. Plus other news.

October 23, 2025

Who’s Your Train Daddy? Penn Station Boss Andy Byford All But Solicits Bribe For Donald Trump

Andy Byford is back in New York to build a shiny new Penn Station, but he's already admitted he's not the guy in charge.

October 22, 2025

HEAVY TRAFFIC: Driving Continues to Rise, Undermining Literally Every Effort to Make the City Better

The trend of increased vehicle miles traveled undermines safety initiatives, pollution reduction efforts and the traffic mitigation of congestion pricing, a new report makes clear.

October 22, 2025
See all posts