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1,400 Signatures Put Lafayette Avenue Bike Lane Back on Agenda
A Brooklyn bike lane scuttled during last winter's anti-bike frenzy is back on the agenda thanks to some intrepid citizen activism. More than 1,400 people have signed a petition to paint a bike lane on Lafayette Avenue, reports the New York Times' The Local blog, and the local community board will be revisiting the issue this coming Tuesday.
January 13, 2012
Sadik-Khan: Bike-Share GPS Data Will Help Plan NYC Bike Network
Here's one more reason to get excited about the launch of bike-share later this year: the reams of data generated by the GPS units located in every public bicycle. The Department of Transportation will use that data to inform their bike lane planning, commissioner Janette Sadik-Khan revealed last night.
January 12, 2012
Study: Painted Bike Lanes Don’t Endanger Pedestrians or Anyone Else
New York City's tabloid media simply can't stop seeing the city's bike boom as a mortal threat to pedestrians. Even research showing a decline in the number of bike-ped crashes was somehow spun to say the opposite, that more cyclists were hitting pedestrians than ever. Now, new peer-reviewed research confirms once again that bike lanes don't endanger pedestrians and don't cause more crashes. If anything, researchers say, they make streets safer.
January 6, 2012
James Vacca, Welcome to Sweeneyland
With his skeptical reaction to the latest poll showing majority support for cycling infrastructure, James Vacca has established himself as the city's most authoritative voice for anti-bike nonsense.
December 15, 2011
Who Knew? Memphis on Track to Add 55 Miles of Bike Lanes in Just Two Years
It seems nowadays you aren't truly a bike-friendly city until you've had your first civic dust-up over bike lanes. And by that standard, Memphis, Tennessee has arrived.
November 11, 2011
Is Car-Crushing Mayor Arturas Zuokas on the Prowl in New York?
Think twice before blocking that bike lane.
November 9, 2011
CB 2 Committee Endorses Parking-Protected Hudson St. Bike Lane
The transportation committee of Manhattan Community Board 2 voted unanimously on Tuesday to endorse a community-generated plan to upgrade the Hudson Street bike lane to a parking-protected lane.
November 9, 2011
Brownsville Residents Push For Neighborhood’s First Bike Lanes
Brownsville wants safer streets for biking.
November 8, 2011
City Council Votes to Increase Oversight of Bike Lane Removal
Yesterday the City Council passed Lew Fidler's Intro 412 -- the bill mandating community board notification about the installation of bike lanes -- setting the stage for some showboating from Fidler, Speaker Christine Quinn and Transportation Committee Chair James Vacca.
November 4, 2011
Weprin Survey Finds 61 Percent Like Bike Lanes, Even in Eastern Queens
Several surveys this year by top polling organizations have found citywide support for bike lanes. And in Park Slope and the Upper West Side, questionnaires put out by local elected officials have shown consistent neighborhood-level approval for new bike infrastructure. Now, another member of the City Council has found widespread enthusiasm for the city's bike lane program among his constituents -- and he doesn't represent the heart of the NYC bike belt.
October 21, 2011