let's work to establish a car-free corridor from Prospect Park to the West Side Highway green way. This would greatly increase safety, and also convince many people that cycling is a good way to commute.

Check it out, CFN. We already started a Livable Streets Group for that, sort of...

http://www.livablestreets.com/projects/union-street-greenway/project-home

A fantastic idea - DOT needs to establish some high volume bike routes to get through the city. The West Side Highway is the best currently, but it's multi-use (and really crowded) and only serves the western side of the city. I've been seeing so many people bike commuting recently it is amazing, especially since they cover a lot of territory demographically. It would be excellent to increase the safety of biking and make it more enticing for others to join.

CFN - sorry you lost your friend, sounds like he was an exceptional person.

You could see that a cab had hit another car from behind, because the cab's front bumper was lying on the ground and the other car had some damage to its rear. Couldn't exactly tell why it happened from the positions of the cars so I don't want to speculate.

So what does the cop do? Nothing. Didn't even respond to the guy. The dude kinda stood there for a little bit waiting to see whether the cop would do anything, then went back over to Jay St. to see if there was anything he could do to help.

Our tax dollars at work.

We'll be getting part of it. The tax increase part. And, it is likely that as he wished, the entire burden will fall on working people, not those living off retirement income younger generations will never see.

It's not that hard to do: a few Jersey Barriers, a net-loss of parking, and we save lives, reduce crowding on the subways and buses, and reduce our dependence on foreign oil.

An additional one quarter $billion towards reinventing NYC travel as similar to that in Amsterdam and Copenhagen of 40% cycling would immediately set the mark high and transform this American town into a major player creating a sustainable future.

the ny post

http://www.nypost.com/seven/09122008/news/regionalnews/hasid_lust_cause_128750.htm

Abraham later said another major concern is the safety of children, noting that cyclists "aren't obeying traffic laws. Green lights and red lights are the same

Do 18 wheelers really belong on our city streets from 9-5, no. For some reason ealy morning deliveries would solve a lot of the problem, but seems not to be the step the city wants to take.

Wow something is terribly wrong when traffic is so dangerous that it's not safe for officers to go out and enforce the law. What could that possibly mean for mere pedestrians?

Ultimately, this is a kind of band-aid replacement for the kind of real traffic relief congestion pricing might have provided. It's the notion that if we could just train every single driver to drive in a different way we might be able to fit more cars in to the city.

Think about all of the man/woman power this taking.