Recent Streetsblog NYC posts about Jon Orcutt

The city created a temporary protected bike lane on First Avenue during the UNGA, sending cyclists through the left side of the tunnel between 40th and 49th streets. Photo: DOT.

Op-Ed: DOT’s Growing Commitment to the Bike Network

By Laura Shepard and Jon Orcutt | Nov 8, 2019 | No Comments

The U.N. General Assembly week detours showed that the city is taking steps to maintain vital bike routes during crunch periods. Let's entrench that maintenance in daily operations.

The Mayor now supports Council Speaker Corey Johnson's Master Plan bill . Photo: Gersh Kuntzman

Speaker Johnson: Make NYPD Bike Lane and Reckless Driver Enforcement Permanent … And Serious!

By Gersh Kuntzman | Jul 24, 2019 | 5 Comments

The NYPD must seriously step up enforcement of reckless drivers — beyond the police department's current practice of periodic ticket blitzes, Council Speaker Corey Johnson said this week as he joined a chorus of advocates.

These trucks are parked on what is supposed to be a protected bike lane on West Street in Greenpoint. If they get a ticket, they pay far less thanks to a city program. Photo: Jon Orcutt

Live from West Street: It’s NOT a Protected Bike Lane If Cars Can Park On It

By Gersh Kuntzman | Jul 15, 2019 | 20 Comments

As Rene Magritte would have said, "Ceci n'est pas un protected bike lane."

Brooklyn Borough President Eric Adams loved the e-Citi Bike when he used it last year — but his borough is suffering from a lack of equity from the bike share system. Photo: Gersh Kuntzman

Here’s One Way to Fix Citi Bike So It Doesn’t Only Serve Rich People Who Already Live Near Subways

By Gersh Kuntzman | Jul 10, 2019 | 26 Comments

Citi Bike serves mostly rich white people. All you need to do is look at the coverage map to see that. So where should it expand next to change that dynamic?

Cars frequently reclaim protected bike lanes — as they did on the two-way stretch of Clinton Street on the Lower East Side — between the time the DOT removes pavement and when the agency restores painted markings. Photo: Jon Orcutt

Op-Ed: Paint The Bike Lane, Dammit, Before Someone Dies!

By Jon Orcutt | May 30, 2019 | 28 Comments

When is a parking-protected bike lane — a street design pioneered in this country by our own city Department of Transportation — no longer a parking-protected bike lane? When that same DOT removes all street markings for street resurfacing, leaving cyclists who have become attuned to the city’s best on-street bike routes to fend for […]

Glory days: Jon Orcutt (left with then-DOT Commissioner Janette Sadik-Khan, then Deputy Mayor Howard Wolfson, and then-DOT bike-share program director Kate Fillin-Yeh) will become the advocacy leader of Bike New York.

Bike New York to Launch New Advocacy Arm with Jon Orcutt at the Helm

By Gersh Kuntzman | Jan 7, 2019 | 15 Comments

The former DOT official, TransAlt chief and TransitCenter communications director will help chart a new direction for the biking education and event group.

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