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Also in today’s news digest: An MIT grad student has found a flaw in how the city counts cyclists. And join Editor Gersh Kuntzman as he does more drugs in the 10th Avenue bike lane (it’s for a good cause!).
And don’t miss yesterday’s late-breaking news about the city’s secure bike parking plans.
Mayor Mamdani is giving the Jay Street busway a new life by adding a pair of bus boarding islands to a chaotic area of the bus-first thoroughfare where cyclists, pedestrians and buses all compete for space.
Good design is great, but if you can’t afford it, you can’t have babies. A very special edition of the podcast with the always provocative Blaine Brownell.
All trucks should have side guards! Yet the city only mandates some trucks get the life-saving, easy-to-install barriers.
Dekalb and Lafayette avenues are getting makeovers that will put give bike riders their fair share of the roads.
Another Central Park tragedy. Plus more news.
The 71-year-old bicyclist was riding on the East Drive near 84th Street at around 8:20 a.m. when he “collided with a dog that ran onto the roadway.”
The Hochul administration is slow-walking safety on the West Side Highway as more and more people suffer injuries or worse on the corridor.
Mayor Mamdani is giving the Jay Street busway a new life by adding a pair of bus boarding islands to a chaotic area of the bus-first thoroughfare where cyclists, pedestrians and buses all compete for space.
Good design is great, but if you can’t afford it, you can’t have babies. A very special edition of the podcast with the always provocative Blaine Brownell.
