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Kathryn Garcia Slips on Marcia Kramer’s Bike-Licensing Banana Peel
So much for the StreetsPAC bounce.
June 11, 2021
LAST MINUTE PUSH: Legislators Hope to Get Cyclists And Pedestrians A Voice At The MTA
Activists and bike-friendly legislators are making a final push to get a floor vote for a stalled bill that would bring cyclist and pedestrian input to the MTA's planning process, a longtime oversight and sore spot for anyone who's tried to bike over an MTA bridge such as the Triboro or Gil Hodges.
June 9, 2021
DECISION 2021: A Preview of Two Manhattan Uptown Council Districts
Districts 7 and 10 have lively races with several street-savvy candidates.
June 9, 2021
Park Slope BID Asks NYPD For ‘Help’ with Delivery Cyclists Then Quickly Regrets It
A business improvement district that had asked the NYPD to get delivery cyclists to slow down on a popular restaurant open street now says it will not invite the cops back after they spent much of Saturday ticketing the mostly immigrant and low-income workers trying to do their job.
June 7, 2021
A Round and a Roundy: The Longest Distance Between Two Points
This week's cartoon is more of a meme of something that's been bugging national treasure cartoonist Bill Roundy for a while.
June 2, 2021
OPINION: Making Cycling Accessible for All New Yorkers
A candidate for City Council in Brooklyn describes what it would take to open up cycling for Black, brown and working-class bikers.
June 1, 2021
SEE IT: Cyclists Win (Or, More Accurately, Lose) on Kent Avenue in Brooklyn
There are more two-wheeled users of Kent Avenue than four- or more-wheeled, pollution-belching users. So why do cars and trucks get all the space?
May 27, 2021
U.S. DOT Must Do Better for Peds, Cyclists, Taxpayers: Report
The U.S. Department of Transportation has not set goals or tracked the performance of 90 traffic safety activities making it difficult to improve them or determining whether they work at all, a congressional watchdog found.
May 26, 2021
How To Design Life-Saving, Low-Speed Zones
A new guide by WRI and the World Bank sets out guidelines for planning, designing, implementing and evaluating low-speed zones. Check it out.
May 25, 2021
People to Feds: Design Streets Better!
A proposed revision of the Federal Highway Administration’s Manual on Uniform Traffic Control Devices for Streets and Highways generated unprecedented public interest.
May 24, 2021