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Doug Gordon

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This is as good as it gets. File photo: Lincoln Anderson

Opinion: Why is DOT Commissioner Trottenberg Happy with Half-Measures from a Middling Mayor?

By Doug Gordon | Aug 3, 2020 | No Comments
What is the last 17 months of the de Blasio administration going to be like? That's up to the DOT Commissioner, who can go bold or go home.
The temporary bike lane on Smith Street in Downtown Brooklyn. The city will double the number of temporary bike lanes it has erected in response to the pandemic, adding nine miles in Manhattan and Queens. Photo: Gersh Kuntzman

Op-Ed: COVID Crisis Will End — So We Must Make Cycling Safer NOW!

By Doug Gordon | Apr 10, 2020 | No Comments
Never let a crisis go to waste, Rahm Emanuel once said. But unlike the former Chicago mayor, our mayor is losing the future.
Yes, a NIMBY group really did air an agitprop anti-bike-lane movie in Park Slope. Photo: Doug Gordon

Bikelash’s Latest Tactics: Pedophile Smears and Conspiracy Theories

By Doug Gordon | Sep 26, 2019 | 74 Comments
A Park Slope community meeting descends into silliness, shoving, and a sinister, cinematic 'Betrayal on 14th Street.' Can we please have some sanity?
HudsonSqBikeRack

Neighborhood Empowerment Project: Humble Bike Rack Tells a Story of a Broken Process

By Doug Gordon | May 22, 2019 | 20 Comments
This is the first post generated by the Neighborhood Empowerment Project, an initiative of our parent company, Open Plans, to change the ineffective way our city government responds to neighborhood problems.
Cyclists proceeding alongside pedestrians at an LPI on Atlantic Avenue. Photo: Doug Gordon

Letting People on Bicycles Use LPIs: A New Way Forward on Cycling Safety

By Carlos Menchaca and Doug Gordon | Mar 27, 2018 | 38 Comments
With this plot program, the safety benefits of LPIs will be extended to include people on bicycles as well as pedestrians.

The New Yorker Versus Vision Zero

By Doug Gordon | Oct 28, 2014 | No Comments
Cross-posted from Brooklyn Spoke. The default speed limit in New York City is set to drop to 25 miles per hour on November 7th, and because this is New York some people are not happy about it. Nick Paumgarten of the New Yorker, for example. A week after Halloween, a new speed limit of twenty-five miles per hour […]

Hundreds Gather to Launch the Park Slope Street Safety Partnership

By Doug Gordon | Dec 4, 2013 | 3 Comments
Last night, nearly 200 neighborhood residents gathered for over two hours in the Park Slope United Methodist Church for the launch of the Park Slope Street Safety Partnership, a consortium of civic groups, elected officials, and private citizens created to advance traffic calming efforts in the neighborhood. Framing the partnership’s goals in terms of Vision […]

Kind of Blue: Delia Ephron and the Art of Anti-Bike Illogic

By Doug Gordon | Oct 21, 2013 | No Comments
Cross-posted from Brooklyn Spoke. One of the old chestnuts of anti-bike-lane rhetoric is the argument that bike lanes are on the one hand empty and therefore not necessary, and on the other dangerous for pedestrians to cross because of all the cyclists whizzing by.  To this absurd entry into the Encyclopedia of NIMBY Logic, writer […]

Schwartz, Soffian, and the So-Called “Bike War”

By Doug Gordon | Sep 25, 2013 | No Comments
Cross-posted from Brooklyn Spoke First, the obvious: Sam Schwartz is a great friend to cyclists and pedestrians. He was an early fan of bike sharing, has long been a cheerleader for Janette Sadik-Khan, and envisions a future in which New York’s rivers are crisscrossed with new bridges exclusively for people on two wheels or two feet. So when he […]

The Bike Share Criticism Challenge

By Doug Gordon | May 10, 2013 | 2 Comments
Cross-posted from Brooklyn Spoke If you follow me on Twitter, you may have seen a few of my rather straightforward tweets in which I repeat some of the main criticisms of bike-share offered by NIMBYs as they fight tooth and nail to move Citi Bike stations from their blocks. These tweets are typically followed by pictures […]

Worried About Cars Killing People? Eric Ulrich Says “Get a Life”

By Doug Gordon | Jun 6, 2011 | 34 Comments
Re-posted from Brooklyn Spoke. On June 2, New York City Council Member Eric Ulrich, the same guy who had the bright idea to introduce a new licensing system for bicyclists, tweeted his own “random observ” about bike lanes: Interestingly, this tweet no longer shows up in his history.  He may have felt the need to […]

“Don’t Be a Jerk” — The Wrong Message at the Wrong Time

By Doug Gordon | Apr 21, 2011 | 84 Comments
This week, the New York City Department of Transportation began promoting its online (and thankfully multilingual) “Bike Smart Pledge,” asking cyclists to yield to pedestrians, stop at red lights and stop signs, ride in the direction of traffic, stay off the sidewalk, and have the proper lighting when riding at night. This will soon be […]
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