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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
Here’s What the NYPD Doesn’t Want You to Know About Its ‘No-Bell’ Crackdown
The NYPD has denied a freedom of information request seeking information about police officers' targeted harassment against cyclists back in April.
June 21, 2019
Eighth Avenue To Get a Road Diet to Give More Space to Walkers, Cyclists
The city is proposing a sweeping transformation between 38th and 45th streets that will reduce car lanes by 20 feet, extend a northbound protected bike lane that currently ends at 39th Street, and widen, by 10 feet, the overcrowded sidewalk from 39th to 41st streets.
June 21, 2019
Cycle of Rage: New Streetfilms Doc Shows New York’s Bike Infrastructure Is Ultimately a Joke
Watch the latest Streetfilms documentary by Clarence Eckerson Jr. and you will realize that all we get are tiny improvements, at best, from Mayor de Blasio.
June 20, 2019
Bay Ridge Pols to City: Don’t Listen to Our Community Board! Give Us Bike Lanes Now!
"We do not agree with their rejection of the proposals," said Council Member Justin Brannan, Assembly Member Mathylde Frontus and State Senator Andrew Gounardes.
June 18, 2019
Hey, West Side Greenway, Citi Bike Called and It Wants Its Bike Lane Back!
The outrage has only just begun over state lawmakers' apparent plans to bar e-bikes and e-scooters from the Hudson River Greenway.
June 18, 2019
UNBELIEVABLE! DOT Adds Parking to Car-Choked DUMBO
Pedestrian-packed and car-clogged Washington Street in Brooklyn’s DUMBO neighborhood has been converted to a one-way between Front and York streets — a change spurred by a two-year effort by a neighborhood resident that will actually add more cars and more danger to the roadway.
June 14, 2019
Scott Stringer Calls for ‘Justice’ For E-Bike-Riding Delivery Workers
Scott Stringer on the mayor's e-bike crackdown? "Simply put, it makes no sense."
June 12, 2019
CPW Gets Protected Bike Lane (Yay!) And Loses 400 Parking Spaces (Yay!)
It’s a pretty sizable win in the ongoing war against cars.
June 12, 2019