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Bicycle Safety

October 2009
Fri 30: Our Parks Are Secure. What About Our Streets? 2
Tue 20: On Wednesday, Tell CB 8: Protected Bike Lanes Protect Everyone 1
Fri 9: CB 8 Transpo Committee Approves UES Protected Bike Lane Reso 4
Fri 2: More Than Just Same-Old at Upper East Side Bicycle Forum 10
Thu 1: Tomorrow: TA Rides for James Langergaard on Queens Boulevard 1
September 2009
Tue 22: Bill Thompson Was for Bike Lanes Before He Was Against Them 35
Thu 10: Chicago Police Say It Loud: Bikes Belong 8
August 2009
Mon 31: Eyes on the Street: A Safer, More Sociable Boulevard Takes Shape 11
Mon 31: Cyclist Injured in Collision on Jay Street This Morning 19
Fri 28: Now That's What I Call a Neckdown! 19
Wed 26: What's Happening to the Manhattan Bridge Bike Path at Canal Street? 13
Fri 21: Gerson on Grand Street Safety: Never Mind the Facts 19
Tue 11: DOT: Sands Street Bike Path Not Quite Finished 4
Mon 10: The Sands Street Shuffle 14
Thu 6: BYO Bike Lanes Coming Soon 15
Wed 5: Council Candidate's Congestion Solution: Rush Hour Bike Bans 29
July 2009
Fri 24: Streetfilms: Make Your Own Bike Etiquette PSA 4
Thu 23: Status Report: Sands Street Bike Path Ready Next Week 12
Wed 15: Eyes on the Street: Sands Street Bike Path Almost Rideable 8
Tue 7: Mapped: Hudson River Greenway to the George Washington Bridge 16
Mon 6: Eyes on the Street: Risking Life and Limb for Greenway Access 38
June 2009
Tue 30: First Look: A Walkable, Bikeable Gateway to the Brooklyn Bridge 24
Tue 23: DA Files Charge Against Cyclist Attacked by SUV Driver in 9th Ave Bike Lane 96
Tue 23: DOT Proposes Park Circle Improvements; CB 7 Approves 13
Mon 22: LADOT to Cyclists: "Watch the Road" or Be "Bug Splatter" 5
Fri 19: Memo to DOH Commish: Don't Be Afraid to Bike, or Push for Safer Biking 4
Wed 17: DOT's New Safety Ads: "Look" Doesn't Flinch 19
Wed 17: DOH Report on Child Deaths Offers No Solutions to Biggest Problem: Traffic 4
Tue 16: WHO Report Highlights Global Health Risk of Traffic 2
Tue 16: Tonight: Weigh In on What's Next for Park Circle Improvements 0
Thu 11: Fifth Ave Merchants: Delivery Problems Have Nothing to Do With Bike Lane 5
Tue 9: Streetcars in Seattle, Or Why America Should Mind Its Transit Gaps 33
Tue 9: Tonight: Speak Up for Safer Cycling on Kent Ave 2
Tue 9: Fifth Ave BID, CB6 District Manager Take Aim at Park Slope Bike Lane 64
Fri 5: Safety in Numbers: It's Happening in NYC 16
Tue 2: Cyclist Struck Yesterday Morning at Third and Atlantic in Brooklyn 7
May 2009
Wed 20: Should I Wear a Helmet Today? 70
Fri 8: Harlem Bike Improvements on Hold After CB10 Meeting 0
Wed 6: Safer Streets Under Fire at Gerson "Town Hall" 29
Wed 6: Tonight: Friendly Voices Needed for Harlem Bike Lane 0
Tue 5: Wednesday: CB 10 to Consider Harlem Bike Improvements 3
Mon 4: New Twist in Kent Ave Saga: Safer Bike Path Plus Parking 4
Fri 1: Despite Bowery Death Toll, NYPD Decides Cyclists are the Real Menace 13
April 2009
Fri 24: Of Red Lights, Helmets, and Bike Lanes 32
Mon 20: Uptown Bike Network Gets Safer With New Buffered Path in Harlem 8
Fri 17: Two-Way Protected Bike Path Sails Through CB6 Committee 16
Thu 9: Who's at Risk From Drunk Cyclists? 21
Fri 3: Bigger Sidewalks But No Protected Bike Lane for Houston Street 14
March 2009
Wed 25: Petition: Tell DOT to Reverse the Curse on Brooklyn Speedways 11
February 2009
Fri 20: Brooklynites Suggest Park Circle Safety Fixes 8
Thu 19: Tonight: Give DOT Your Ideas for a Safer Park Circle 20
Thu 19: Use the Stimulus Bill to Complete Our Nation's Streets 0
Thu 12: Speeding Kills, and 39 Percent of New York Drivers Are Doing It 64
January 2009
Fri 16: BYO Bike Lane 12
Mon 5: Streetfilms: New Yorkers Walk and Ride for Safer Streets 0
December 2008
Mon 22: In Boulder, They Plow the Bike Paths First 45
Wed 10: Business Has Nothing to Fear From Bike Lanes 18
Mon 8: Alan Gerson Wants Greater "Review" of DOT Bike Safety Plans 20
Mon 1: Tuesday: Oppo Expected to Improvements for Chatham Square, Park Row 15
November 2008
Fri 28: SF Responds to Bike Injunction With 1,353 Page Enviro Review 20
Wed 19: Study Finds Cyclists Need Safer Streets 35
Fri 14: Post Reader Defends "Dangerous" Bike Lane 8
Thu 13: Tonight: See the Blueprint for a New Upper West Side 27
Wed 12: Wiki Wednesday: Bike Bus 4
Thu 6: Designing NYC Streets for the 21st Century 2
Mon 3: Cyclist Pitches Anti-Dooring Video Icon to TLC 19
October 2008
Wed 29: TA Rolls Out CrashStat Improvements 8
Fri 24: Streetfilms: Learning Bike Safety in the Schoolyard 7
Fri 24: On the Way Home, Ride for a Protected Bike Lane on Delancey 3
Fri 24: Astoria Musician Arturo Flores Killed by Van Driver 12
Tue 21: Vision Zero NYC: Ending the Body Count 31
Mon 20: Study Confirms: Safer Bike Routes Get More People Riding 21
Thu 16: Portland Water Bureau Launches Bike/Truck Safety Campaign 8
September 2008
Tue 30: Manhattan Bridge Bike Path Mired for Years in Construction Bureaucracy 17
Mon 22: Death of Cyclist Shocks Melbourne, Prompts Bus Ban 7
Thu 18: Sen. Jeff Klein to No Impact Man: "Hands Off My Car, You F--king A--hole" 58
Tue 16: A Close Call, a Confrontation, a Conciliatory Ending 10
Fri 12: Ride for a Safer Queens Boulevard Tonight 6
Fri 12: Fatal Crash Was Preceded By Complaints About Nearby Intersection 7
Wed 10: One Year After $5M Promise, Downtown Brooklyn Safety Fixes Are Nowhere 9
August 2008
Tue 26: In Week of Carnage, Times Looks Askance at Broadway Traffic-Calming 20
Mon 18: Does Summer Streets Need a "Fast Lane"? 59
Fri 15: Brooklyn Cyclist Struck and Killed by SUV 29
Thu 14: Police Slowing Cyclists on Queensborough Bridge 59
Wed 13: Wiki Wednesday: Urban Bicycling With Children 0
July 2008
Wed 30: Wiki Wednesday: Bike Boxes 2
Mon 28: Make Queens Boulevard a Complete Street 22
Mon 14: Crashes Claim Lives of Two New York Cyclists 9
Wed 9: L.A. Doc Takes Out Road Rage on Cyclists, Injuring Two 41
May 2008
Thu 29: CB 3 Supports DOT's Manhattan Bridge Proposal 13
Wed 14: DOT to Present Manhattan Bridge Plans to CB 3 Tonight 10
April 2008
Mon 28: Survey Finds New Yorkers Anxious About Congestion and Safety 13
March 2008
Tue 25: Eyes on the Street: Portland Bike Boxes 8
Wed 19: Moses to LaGuardia: Bikes Have No Place on the Street 4
Tue 18: On Potato Omelets and Winter Cycling 35
Thu 13: London's Very Cool "Look Out for Cyclists" Ad 10
Wed 12: Hit by a Car While Biking? Don't Waste the NYPD's Time 36
Tue 11: Hudson River Greenway Bike Path Sabotaged 9
Wed 5: The Vicious Cycle of Anti-Cyclist Bias 15
February 2008
Thu 21: The New DOT is Still Using the Old Measuring Stick 10
Mon 18: Mary Beth Kelly: From Tragedy to Advocacy 7
Thu 7: Tale of Two Cities: Bicycling in Chicago and Los Angeles 5
Fri 1: A "Vision Zero" for New York? 3
January 2008
Tue 29: City Numbers Show Highest Cyclist Death Toll in Eight Years 28
Thu 17: NYPD Tow Pound is Still a Major Source of Greenway Danger 15
Mon 14: From Mad Messenger to More Peaceful Cyclist 11
Thu 10: StreetFilm: How to Use a Bike Box 23
Tue 8: Street Memorial Riders Urge City Hall to Tame Traffic Now 41
Mon 7: StreetFilm: The Street Memorial Project 2
Mon 7: Ghost Bikes Memorial Ride Marks Another Year of Loss 1
Fri 4: A Year After Eric Ng's Death, Greenway Hazards Remain Unfixed 42
Fri 4: Greenway Killer is Sentenced 3½ to 10½ Years 9
Thu 3: The Case Against Pull-in Angle Parking 21
December 2007
Fri 21: January 3rd: The Wrongdoer is Brought to Justice 12
Fri 14: Daily News to Deceased Cyclists: "Your Fault." 7
Thu 13: NY1 Snap Poll: How to Make NYC Safer For Cyclists? 6
Wed 5: Cyclist Doored, Killed by Truck in Midtown 78
Tue 4: One Intersection, Two Injured Pedestrians, One Summons 0
Tue 4: Crashstat 2.0 Reveals NYC’S Most Dangerous Intersections 9
November 2007
Thu 8: DOT Rolls Out the New Lower Manhattan Crosstown Bike Route 6
Mon 5: Invisible Man 17
October 2007
Fri 19: Details and Questions Emerge in Brooklyn Cyclist Deaths 27
Thu 18: Two Cyclists Killed in Brooklyn This Morning 16
Thu 18: Cabbie Mistakes East River Park Bike Path for Highway 19
Wed 17: Illinois Adopts "Complete Streets" Into Law 8
September 2007
Thu 6: Biking the Mean Streets of L.A. 10
August 2007
Mon 27: Bike & Ped Improvements Slated for Manhattan Bridge Approach 18
Fri 24: Survey Finds That Buffered Bike Lanes Are Better 17
Wed 22: Central Park 66th Street Transverse Is Unsafe 11
Mon 20: Cyclists Throwing Selves Under Cars in Brooklyn 28
Tue 14: The Cars That Ate New York 0
July 2007
Fri 13: DOT Media Blitz Forthcoming 16
June 2007
Tue 19: File Under: Only in America 1
Mon 18: Biking [on the Wrong Side of the Road] is "Normal" [in London] 0
Mon 18: A Livable Streets Exhibition Opens in Brooklyn 1
Fri 1: Hit by a Car? Nothing Can be Done Unless You're Hurt. 15
Fri 1: More Bike Lanes for Los Angeles? One Cyclist Says, "No Thanks." 16
May 2007
Thu 31: Weird Science: Do Helmets Attract Cars to Cyclists? 16
Thu 31: Armoring Up on the Streets of New York 34
Fri 11: Swerve and Protect: Boston's Bicycle Bible 12
April 2007
Fri 20: CB2 Signs Off On Prince-Bleecker Bike Lanes 2
Thu 12: CB2 Committee Approves "Additional" Prince/Bleecker Routes 3
Wed 11: DOT's 9th Street Plan: Frequently Asked Questions 8
Wed 11: Who Opposes A Plan for Safer, More Livable Streets and Why? 9
Fri 6: Park Slope Passes on Traffic-Calming, Ped Safety & Bike Lanes 24
March 2007
Fri 16: DOT Makes the Case for Bike Routes Parallel to W. Houston St. 29
Mon 12: DOT Proposes Solution to Houston Street Cycling Danger 59
Tue 6: StreetFilms: "Something Has to Be Done" 0
February 2007
Wed 14: Hyping the HyperBike 10
December 2006
Wed 20: Meeting Tonight on Westside Greenway Bike Safety 9
Thu 14: Central Park Cyclist in Serious Condition 25
Sun 10: Streetfilms: Memorial for Eric Ng 10
Sat 2: Drunk Driver Kills Cyclist on Hudson River Greenway 32
November 2006
Wed 22: This Morning's Commute: The Ian Goldman Affair 55
Thu 16: NYPD Has Spent $1.32M to Suppress a Monthly Bike Ride 18
Wed 15: New Bike Stencils Completed on the Lower East Side 8
Mon 13: Gridlock Sam Tells the Story of NYC's First Bike Lanes 18
Thu 2: Immigrant Experience: Transit Pioneers and Cycling Soldiers 0
September 2006
Tue 26: Beyond Thermoplast, Street Signs and Signal Timing 21
Wed 20: Endless Summer on Brooklyn's Fifth Avenue 4
Tue 19: Statistics and Helmets 12
Thu 14: Streetsblog Interview: Ryan Russo 10
Thu 14: The Three Big Bicyclist Fatality Clusters 7
Thu 14: U.K. Study Finds Wearing a Bike Helmet May be More Dangerous 8
Thu 14: Digging in: How Many Crashes Are Due to "Bicycle Factors?" 5
Thu 14: Eyes on the Street: Hudson River Greenway Crash 6
August 2006
Thu 31: Rally for a Livable Houston Street 8
Fri 18: The New York Times Comes Correct... Almost 3
Mon 14: New York Times Under-Reports Cyclist Fatalities 5
Fri 11: Comments Section Highlights 3
Thu 10: Another Very Bad Week to Ride a Bike in NYC 24
Thu 10: Trucker Kills Cyclist on Ninth Avenue and 29th Street 11
Thu 10: Budnick Talks Transpo on NY1 3
July 2006
Thu 27: Inebriated Columnist Issues Fatwa Against Kamikaze Jerks 14
Tue 25: Revisiting Houston Street, One Month Later 0
Mon 24: Ex-DOT Bike Director Speaks 5
Fri 14: Bike-Crash Study Fuels Discord Among Agencies 7
Mon 10: Bridges Burning at DOT 8
Wed 5: Weinshall in Stockholm: Praying for Safer Streets 5
June 2006
Thu 29: Cyclists Rally at City Hall 2
Thu 29: City Hall Press Conference on Cyclist Safety 0
Tue 27: Improper Steel Plate May Have Caused Fatal Crash 0
Mon 26: Eyes on the Street: Central Park, Friday, June 23, 3:30 pm. 5
Thu 8: Liz Padilla Memorial & Bike Improvements 0