On Wednesday night, a preliminary proposal to build protected bike lanes on 8th and 9th Avenues between 34th and 59th Street was approved by Community Board 4′s Transportation Planning Committee in Hell’s Kitchen. But things didn’t go as smoothly as they did in Harlem, with some area business owners denouncing the plan. Read more »
Park Circle, Brooklyn’s downright British roundabout, has been greatly improved by the DOT. The agency has not only added bike lanes to help cyclists get through the traffic circle of doom, but also has added a horse lane too. Read more »
Cyclists and people with common sense won a major victory on Tuesday, after a State Supreme Court judge ruled against a wealthy group of Brooklynites suing to have the Prospect Park West bike lane removed. Judge Bert Bunyan dismissed their lawsuit, concluding the city acted properly and the statue of limitations for such a challenge had already expired.
New Yorkers are still in favor of the bike lanes and there’s nothing that a local anti-bike tabloid can do to change that. That’s right. Despite a massive onslaught of misleading yclist-related coverage, not even the mighty New York Post can influence the the results of the latest poll. Conducted by NY1 and Marist College, (PDF doc) it found city residents overwhelmingly in “support” of the bike lanes, just like this recent survey. (Photo: Spencer Thomas/flickr)
Pissed that drivers in the Lithuanian capital of Vilnius are carelessly cockblocking bike lanes all NYPD-style, the local mayor decided to teach his constituents a little lesson.
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A Quinnipiac University poll asked New Yorkers if they think the expanding network of bike lanes are having a positive impact and 59 percent responded favorably, choosing that it’s a “good thing because it’s greener and healthier for people” over it being bad “because it leaves less room for cars with increased traffic.” Read more »
Czech Republic-based artists Vladimir Turner and Ondřej Mladý have a “nice” way of dealing with Prague’s insufficient amount of bike paths. Watch Vlad weave through night traffic on the highway, grassy park hills and public square crowds — along a bike path projected by his own bicycle. Weee! Read more »
A Cajun-style East Village restaurant will be closing its doors for good and claims bike lanes are the main reason why. Although the owner of Mara’s Homemade admits higher taxes and rent are contributing factors, she says the loss of parking spots due to bike lanes is the real culprit, an assessment not everyone agrees with. It’s also an excuse that would make more sense, if it was actually located on 1st Avenue and really relied on car driving patrons.
On Monday, the New York Post was forced to report on the massive outpouring of support for the Prospect Park West Bike lane, but today, gets back to its usual spinning. The tabloid says less people than ever are using the city’s expanding network of “controversial bike lanes” based on US Census numbers, but as Streetsblog pointed out long ago, that data isn’t all that accurate, since it only counts “people who bike as their primary mode of getting to work” and ignores the habits of recreational cyclists.
The New York Post knows no bounds in their war against bike lanes and the people that use them, but not even we expected them to bring victims of the World Trade Center attacks into the debate. However, as noted by Streetsblog, the tabloid did exactly that and for their latest propaganda piece, “plays the 9/11 card” in arguing against the development of the Battery Park Bikeway. Read more »
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