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CityViews: Death Highlights Need for the Right Kind of Bike Lane

Cody Lyon | August 15, 2018

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.

CITY VIEWS: OPINIONS and ANALYSIS

CampaignViews: NYPD Stonewalling Won’t Protect Cyclists

Charles Komanoff and Doug Gordon | August 1, 2017

‘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.’

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CityViews: Fear and Loathing on New York’s Bike Lanes

Dorothee Benz | October 7, 2016

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

Josmar Trujillo | June 15, 2016

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.

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Will Expanding Citi Bike Require Taxpayer Funding?

Jack D'Isidoro | December 21, 2015

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.

Alec Appelbaum | October 2, 2015

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.

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Cyclists Blame Safety Worries for Lack of Bikes in the Bronx

Deborah Cruz | May 19, 2015

Long commutes, hills and other obstacles also help to explain why borough-wide biking rates are lowest in the Bronx.

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