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Biking While Female — ‘Slut,’ ‘Bitch,’ and ‘Dumb Broad’
Women share their stories of intimidation on the roads, proving again that car culture is bro culture.
July 17, 2019
Um, Injuries to Cyclists Are Actually UP In Eight of 10 ‘Priority Bicycle Districts’
Injuries to cyclists continue to rise in community boards that the Department of Transportation identified as safety priority areas, according to data crunched by Streetsblog.
July 16, 2019
See It! Two Men Physically Intimidate A Woman Citi Biker For Allegedly Touching Their Precious SUV
Cycling is about to have its long overdue #MeToo movement as aggressive male drivers are once again caught on tape abusing a woman.
July 16, 2019
Miraculous Safety Toilet Plungers Fix Fifth Avenue Mixing Zones For Just $4.99
Turning mixing zones into plunger zones led to a huge increase in safe driving.
July 10, 2019
NYPD’s Reckless Driver ‘Crackdown’ is a Breezy Three-Week Affair
Fifteen cyclists are dead and this is all the NYPD can come up with — a three-week ticket blitz?
July 2, 2019
Cyclist Critically Wounded by Driver in 2016 Has Died of His Injuries
A Borough Park boy who was struck by a driver on his way to synagogue nearly three years ago has died of his injuries, Streetsblog has learned.
July 2, 2019
‘End Legal Murder In NYC’! Hundreds Mourn Cyclist Robyn Hightman in Memorial Ride
Hundreds of cyclists rode from Williamsburg to Chelsea last night, taking over the roadway from lower Manhattan to 23rd Street, in a memorial ride for 20-year-old Robyn Hightman, a bike courier who this week became the 12th cyclist killed on New York City streets in 2019.
June 28, 2019
After Cyclist Was Killed, City Wrote 40 Percent of its Blitz Tix to … Cyclists!
New York’s Finest said they had written 77 moving violation tickets between the time when Hightman's blood was washed off the street and Wednesday morning — 29 tickets went to bikers and 48 to drivers of cars and trucks.
June 26, 2019
NYPD Forced to Protect DOT’s Second Avenue ‘Protected Bike Lane’
Police in the 19th Precinct are being hailed for setting up physical barriers in the Upper East Side bike lane in order to protect bikers from speeding cars.
June 24, 2019
Op-Ed: The Atlantic Avenue Rebuild Is Taking Too Long
The next chapter of the Department of Transportation’s long-awaited rebuild of Atlantic Avenue — one of the city’s deadliest corridors — won’t likely start until 2021.
June 24, 2019
