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‘We Told You So!’: Crash Highlights Street Dangers in Queens
How many more people must be hurt or killed before the city prioritizes DOT's proven, life saving improvements over the convenience of drivers?
John Kelly
September 27, 2019
Council Members: DOT Has ‘No Reason’ to Not Give Queensboro Bridge Lane to Pedestrians
The city's failure to give more space to the increasing number of pedestrians and cyclists on the Queensboro Bridge is a betrayal of Vision Zero — and that failure seems based solely on a fealty to car traffic.
September 26, 2019
Bikelash’s Latest Tactics: Pedophile Smears and Conspiracy Theories
A Park Slope community meeting descends into silliness, shoving, and a sinister, cinematic 'Betrayal on 14th Street.' Can we please have some sanity?
September 26, 2019
City Asks Cyclists Where To Put Protected Bike Lanes; Cyclists Respond, ‘Um, Everywhere!’
City planners are asking New York cyclists what neighborhoods would be best for protected bike lanes — and cyclists are already responding defiantly: "All of them."
September 25, 2019
Op-Ed: My Bike Was Vandalized — and the Cops Don’t Care
But with police hostility to cyclists all over the five boroughs, I shouldn't have been surprised.
September 25, 2019
IT’S 23 DEAD! NYPD Blaming E-Bike Rider Killed By Private Carter
The senior e-bike rider who was mowed down by a private sanitation truck driver earlier this month has died, becoming the 23rd cyclist killed this year — and cops are blaming the victim.
September 24, 2019
Teen Cyclist Killed by Uncharged Truck Driver — 22nd Biker Death this Year
Mario Valenzuela, 14, was killed on Borden Avenue at around 2 p.m. on Saturday — the 22nd cyclist to die this year, up from 10 in all of 2018.
September 21, 2019
FDNY: Traffic — Not Bike Lanes — is to Blame for Increased Response Times
“Travel time increases [are due] to continued population growth, with more vehicles on the road and more construction,” says the report, which was released late Tuesday.
September 19, 2019
Reporter’s Notebook: Mayor de Blasio’s Half-Hearted Vision Zero is a Blood-Soaked Joke
We're not just a little behind Europe on livable streets and sustainable logistics — we're not even on the same planet.
September 19, 2019
Citi Bike Expansion Begins Next Week into Ridgewood and Deeper into Bushwick
Citi Bike will stretch from Williamsburg all the way to Broadway Junction by the time this phase of the expansion is finished.
September 18, 2019