biking
Photo & Video: Bike Advocates Stage ‘Die-In’ Protest
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Activists say 15 cyclists have been killed on the city’s streets so far this year, including three fatalities that took place in one week.
GOVERNMENT
Max & Murphy: A Hard Look at Vision Zero
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The reduction of traffic deaths in New York City under his Vision Zero program is one of Mayor de Blasio’s talking points as he runs for president. But while deaths have fallen, an advocate and a Councilmember agree that progress has slowed.
bike lanes
CityViews: Death Highlights Need for the Right Kind of Bike Lane
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The majority of the city’s designated bike lanes are unprotected: basically nothing more than around thee-feet wide stretches of asphalt marked by strips of paint and an occasional bike lane symbol. That has to change.
biking
20th Annual Blessing of the Bicycles
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Hundreds of cyclists of all religious backgrounds will kick off the biking season at the 20th annual Blessing of the Bicycles celebration on Saturday, May 5, 2018 at 9:30 a.m. inside the Cathedral of St. John the Divine, located at 1047 Amsterdam Avenue (at 112th Street), Manhattan. This unique service is open to everyone who gets around town on a bike, scooter, skates, unicycle, or other form of human-powered vehicle. The Reverend Patrick Malloy, Canon for Liturgy and the Arts at the Cathedral, will officiate the ceremony, during which he will offer a blessing to jumpstart a safe cycling season and sprinkle Holy Water on each bicycle. After the blessing, there will be a moment of silence to remember the cyclists lost in the past year.
CITY VIEWS: OPINIONS and ANALYSIS
CampaignViews: NYPD Stonewalling Won’t Protect Cyclists
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‘Little of what the NYPD does in the name of Vision Zero actually fits the definition of the term. Just the opposite. Punishing cyclists with mass ticketing each time a lawful bicycle rider is killed or seriously injured by a reckless driver undercuts safety.’
bike lanes
CityViews: Fear and Loathing on New York’s Bike Lanes
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A thoughtlessly opened car door knocked the author off her bike, for a year. Deeper than the asphalt wounds was a terror of cars and new insight into what a genuine commitment to Vision Zero will take, from all New Yorkers.
No Backspace
Jane Jacobs, Broken Windows and the Battle Over Public Space
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Both conservative law-and-order and liberal-minded urban planning leave poor communities of color in the crosshairs. Public spaces, a theoretically shared space, become battlefields.
bike lanes
Will Expanding Citi Bike Require Taxpayer Funding?
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Unlike its counterparts in other cities, Citi Bike is privately financed. But amid a push for it to serve more neighborhoods, and with city law requiring the company to publicize its finances soon, some believe a move toward partial public funding is likely.
CITY VIEWS: OPINIONS and ANALYSIS
NYC Might Not be a Great Place for Bikers. But it’s a Great Place to Bike.
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After spending some time in the cyclists’ paradise of Boulder, Colo., a New Yorker returns to the difficult and sometimes dangerous practice of biking in New York—and finds that bikers here ride closer to the heart of their city.
biking
Cyclists Blame Safety Worries for Lack of Bikes in the Bronx
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Long commutes, hills and other obstacles also help to explain why borough-wide biking rates are lowest in the Bronx.