Doug Gordon
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Opinion: Debunking the Lies of Vickie Paladino is Crucial to Understanding the Bikelash
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Yes, it's time to take on another cultural artifact in the seemingly never-ending fight to fix our streets as well as open up a time capsule that might one day show where the political discourse stood in the post-truth world of 2023.
OPINION: Citi Bike’s Lessons for Open Streets
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Mayor de Blasio — who has it much easier than his predecessor when it comes to urban amenities — should follow the bike-share playbook, says a co-host of the "War on Cars" podcast.
Opinion: Why is DOT Commissioner Trottenberg Happy with Half-Measures from a Middling Mayor?
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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.
Op-Ed: COVID Crisis Will End — So We Must Make Cycling Safer NOW!
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Never let a crisis go to waste, Rahm Emanuel once said. But unlike the former Chicago mayor, our mayor is losing the future.
Bikelash’s Latest Tactics: Pedophile Smears and Conspiracy Theories
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A Park Slope community meeting descends into silliness, shoving, and a sinister, cinematic 'Betrayal on 14th Street.' Can we please have some sanity?
Neighborhood Empowerment Project: Humble Bike Rack Tells a Story of a Broken Process
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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.
Letting People on Bicycles Use LPIs: A New Way Forward on Cycling Safety
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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
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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
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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
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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”
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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
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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 […]