Bicycle Safety

DOT continues to make progress with the extension of the Columbus Avenue protected bike lane. Doug Gordon sent us these shots, taken this morning, of pedestrian island construction at 75th and 73rd Streets.

Reader David Holowka sent these photos of NYPD breaking the law and putting cyclists' lives at risk on Eighth Avenue, across from Madison Square Garden near a massive Citi Bike station.

In the wake of a string of pedestrian fatalities, more than 100 people gathered on the steps of City Hall this morning at an event organized by Transportation Alternatives to demand that mayoral candidates step up to address street safety.

It seems like the local press has run through so many permutations of the Citi Bike story that now it's time to recycle Citi Bike stories from a year ago.

Responding to years of citizen advocacy and a resolution from Manhattan Community Board 12, DOT has proposed bike lanes for a number of streets in Upper Manhattan.

It's truly amazing how much work the tabloids put into opposing measures that save lives. Take today's Daily News, which resorted to race-baiting to gin up controversy over hard-won bike lanes in Upper Manhattan.

With bike-share stations hitting the streets but the launch still a few weeks away, there's a lot of misinformed speculation floating around about Citi Bike. A favorite tactic of the bike-share opposition is to conjure visions of chaos and "hell on wheels" after the system launches, as the Daily News did in a recent opinion piece. But there's a reason the anti-bike-share crowd has to invoke imaginary scenarios: In the real world, crash statistics from bike-share cities show that bike-share users are less likely to be involved in crashes than other cyclists.

NYPD is ticketing cyclists riding on the Hudson River Greenway after 1:00 a.m., which is the Parks Department's citywide closing time, according to a reader who was stopped by police on the greenway last night.