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Opinion: The City Must Redesign Central Park for All Users
The park is still designed for cars, which aren't allowed, creating needless conflicts between cyclists and pedestrians. Here's a better way.
July 17, 2020
Upper East Siders Back Safe Routes for Cyclists Through Central Park
“The unfortunate death of Dr. Cammerman was not an accident. It was inevitable," said one person at the online hearing.
April 23, 2020
Panel Unanimously Backs Safe Routes for Cyclists Through Central Park
The heightened resolve comes less than a month after cyclist and beloved local pediatrician Daniel Cammerman was run down and killed by a bus driver on the 96th Street Transverse.
January 15, 2020
Ex-Parks Commissioner: I Won’t Bike in Central Park Anymore
A delivery man on a e-bike wiped out after striking a pedestrian at a dangerous intersection. What's the city going to do about it?
September 2, 2019
LEGAL EASE: How NIMBYs Use ‘Environmental Review’ to Stop Green Projects
The CPW and 14th lawsuits aim to vex, trouble, and delay traffic improvements. How we can stop them?
August 16, 2019
DADDY MOREBUCKS: Rich Upper West Siders Seek Cash to Continue Bike Lane Fight
"I would be outraged if my condo or co-op fees were being used to support this," said someone who has seen the solicitation letter.
August 9, 2019
Cyclists Take the Fight to the Door of Entitled Central Park West Car Owners, Demand They Drop Anti-Bike Lane Suit
Even a car owner in the building admits that the super-rich should pay for parking.
August 1, 2019
DOT Criticized for One-Way Central Park West Protected Bike Lane Plan
On bike Twitter? Insert frown-face emoji here.
June 9, 2019
DOT’S CPW PBL is OTW (LOL?)
It only took an internationally covered cyclist death — and months of delay — but the city is finally ready to present a protected bike lane for Central Park West, Streetsblog has learned.
May 9, 2019
Not-So-Car-Free: Drivers Still Reign In Supposedly Auto-Less Parks
Car-free Central Park is anything but.
October 10, 2018