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May 24
NYC: After Bike-Share Launches and the Dust Settles, Remember the NIMBY Frenzy : Resistance to a major transportation policy change -- in this case, congestion pricing -- is most intense right when the new initiative takes effect....
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May 24
NYC: The Weekly Carnage : The Weekly Carnage is a Friday round-up of motor vehicle violence across the five boroughs and beyond....
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May 24
NYC: Kids Take Citi Bike for a Stationary Spin : Kids love bikes and shiny new things, so it’s not a huge surprise that this group of middle-schoolers would flock to the bike-share station at East 11th Street near First Avenue....
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May 24
NYC: City Council Candidates on the Issues: Clifford Stanton, District 11 : We continue our series on City Council candidates with a Q&A with activist and food wholesaler Clifford Stanton, who’s running to represent District 11, covering Kingsbridge, Riverdale, Woodlawn, and...
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May 24
NYC: Mesmerizing! Citi Bikes Arrive : Here it is: A bike-share station with bikes, and it’s not a photo shoot. A reader sent this shot of Foley Square across from the courts this morning. The blue bikes are a great conversation starter....
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May 24
NYC: Today’s Headlines : They’re Not Against Bikes: Bike-Share Fob the Hot Accessory for Mayoral Field (News) Weiner Refuses to Say He Would Add Bike Infrastructure, Clings to “Heavy Handed” Crapola (TransNat) TransNat Solici...
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May 23
NYC: City Close to Recommending Surface Road Replacement for Sheridan : The city is close to recommending that the Sheridan Expressway, a short, sparsely-used interstate that community activists have targeted for removal for years, be transformed into a street-level roadw...
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May 23
NYC: Cab Driver Seriously Injures Cyclist on Upper West Side : A cyclist was struck and injured by a cab driver at 81st and Broadway this afternoon. A spokesperson said FDNY got the call at 2:20 p.m., and that responders transported a 35-year-old male in serious...
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May 23
NYC: Tonight: Speak Up for Better 125th St. Bus Service at Bill Perkins Town Hall : State Senator Bill Perkins is hosting an "Emergency Town Hall Meeting" tonight because DOT is proposing Select Bus Service improvements to 125th Street....
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May 23
NYC: How the Post Engineers Bike-Share Bashing, Facts Be Damned : It took a few days, but the Post found someone to go along with its bike-scare nonsense, according to the Post. SHELL GAME: A DOT agent swoops in to adjust bike-share docks in response to public input...
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May 23
NYC: City Council Candidates on the Issues: Cheryl Keeling, District 11 : We continue our series on City Council candidates with a Q&A with track coach and businesswomman Cheryl Keeling, who’s running to represent District 11, covering Kingsbridge, Riverdale, Woodlawn, and...
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May 23
NYC: CB 8 Votes for Queensboro Bridge Bike Access Plan as CB 6 Drags Its Feet : It will take at least three meetings for the transportation committee of Manhattan Community Board 6 to deliberate on a proposal for shared lane markings....
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May 23
NYC: Bronx CB 8 Committee Deadlocks on Putnam Trail Paving : Last night, Bronx Community Board 8′s parks committee deadlocked, 3-2, with two abstentions, on a resolution to support the Parks Department’s plan to pave the Putnam Line rail-trail....
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May 23
NYC: Today’s Headlines : Zupan: Bike-Share Will Be Great (RPA); Op-Doc: “I’m So Terribly Excited” for Bike-Share (NYT) Post Finds Anti-Bike-Share Ally: Firefighters’ Union Chief Says It’s Hard to Drive Around NYC Daily News a...
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May 22
NYC: Anthony Weiner: “I Love Bike Lanes,” With the Following Exceptions… : Anthony Weiner, enemy of congestion pricing and infamous bike lane antagonist, is talking about street design on the campaign trail....
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May 22
NYC: Pledge to Streetsblog and This Awesome Elly Blue Collection Could Be Yours : Have you given to Streetsblog’s spring pledge drive yet? If not, may I suggest that this is the week to do so....
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May 22
NYC: Citi Bike Member Packets Include Cycling-Near-Trucks Safety Tips : Yesterday we had a feisty exchange of posts between Charles Komanoff and Nicole Gelinas about what the city should do to enhance safety for Citi Bike users (and everyone else). One of Gelinas’s main s...
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May 22
NYC: Earth to New York Post: Citi Bike Stations Are Designed to Be Flexible : Hats off to Matt Flegenheimer for the enlightening piece in today’s Times describing the lessons from other bike-share systems that informed New York’s big decisions about Citi Bike....
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May 22
NYC: Careless Driving Amendment Passes Senate, Awaits Action by Assembly : A bill targeted at NYPD’s self-imposed ban on penalizing motorists for careless driving has cleared the State Senate, but awaits passage in the Assembly. NYPD refuses to enforce the law named after Di...
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May 22
NYC: How Cuomo Could Expand DWI Effort to Target All Serial Dangerous Drivers : Governor Cuomo announced Monday that new DMV drivers license rules have taken thousands of dangerous motorists off New York State roads....
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May 22
NYC: Q Poll: Support for Cycling a Vote Winner for Mayoral Candidates : Mayoral candidates stand to gain votes if they support increased bicycling, according to the latest Quinnipiac poll. The last question of the poll, which surveyed 1,082 NYC voters via land lines and c...
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May 22
NYC: Today’s Headlines : 2013: Weiner Announces (News, NYT); “Bill de Blasio Drives” (NYT); Q Poll: Runoff Likely (WSJ) Metro-North and Amtrak Expected to Resume Full Service Today (NYT) NYC Bike-Share Modeled on the Best of...
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May 21
NYC: City Council Candidates on the Issues: Andrew Cohen, District 11 : Streetsblog continues our series on City Council candidates with a look at the race for District 11 in the Bronx, which covers Kingsbridge, Riverdale, Woodlawn, and Norwood....
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May 21
NYC: Gelinas Responds to Komanoff on Bike-share Safety : Manhattan Institute fellow Nicole Gelinas submitted this response to Charles Komanoff’s critique of her weekend opinion piece in the New York Post about bike-share safety. Charles Komanoff, i...
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May 21
NYC: FDNY Commissioner Salvatore Cassano: Bike-Share Racks Are Not In Our Way : We have a message from FDNY that should once and for all take care of fabricated concerns about bike-share docking stations getting in the way of emergency vehicles. Here’s a statement from Fire Commi...
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May 21
NYC: Official Citi Bike Mobile App Now Available : The official Citi Bike mobile application is now available to download....
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May 21
NYC: Predictions of Bike-Share Carnage Are a Mirage and a Distraction : Just when you thought the bike-share detractors might have run out of steam — or at least taken a time-out — along comes an intellectually muddled piece in the NY Post warning of dead bike-share users...
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May 21
NYC: New York Post Serving as Stenographers for Bike-Share Litigants [Updated] : Update: Streetsblog had a call in to FDNY about the Post story....
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May 21
NYC: Today’s Headlines : Regular Amtrak and Metro-North Service to Resume Tomorrow After Connecticut Derailment (NYT) Derailment Spotlights Years of Delayed Metro-North Investment from Connecticut (WNYC) EMTs Successfully Res...
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May 20
NYC: Eyes on the Street: Bike-Share Stations Come to Williamsburg : A bike-share station was installed at South 4th Street and Wythe Avenue on Saturday....
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May 20
NYC: This Week: 4th Ave Traffic Calming, What’s Next for the Sheridan : This week is packed with community board meetings and public events in Brooklyn, Queens, and the Bronx....
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May 20
NYC: Keys to the Citi Bike: Bike-Share Fobs Start to Arrive in Members’ Mailboxes : With a week to go until Citi Bike launches, we’re hearing from readers who received their annual member keys in the mail over the weekend. Here’s a look at the packet that reader “dporpentine” opened...
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May 20
NYC: Motorist Havoc: Two Dead, Five Hurt, Kids in Critical Condition, No Charges : A pedestrian and a cyclist are dead after a series of crashes in Brooklyn and the Bronx in which motorists also injured five other people. Three of the victims were teenagers....
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May 20
NYC: In Bay Ridge and Park Slope, Fourth Ave Traffic Calming Moves Forward : Fourth Avenue at 86th Street in Bay Ridge would get a pedestrian island - and a pedestrian fence - under a plan presented to CB 10 last week....
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May 20
NYC: A Smugger Version of This Weekend’s Backstabbing in the Daily News : This weekend you might have come across the anonymous Daily News editorial in which Arthur Browne’s opinion team called Paul Steely White “smug” for defending bike-share (in an opinion piece solicited...
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May 20
NYC: Today’s Headlines : Metro-North Trains Collide in Connecticut, Injuring Dozens and Disrupting Service (NYT 1, 2; AP; 2AS) Bronx Crashes Leave One Pedestrian Dead, Five Hurt; Three Kids Critical (Post, News, DNA, NY1 1, 2...
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May 17
NYC: T-Minus 10 Days to Citi Bike Launch : The Rob Ford crack-smoking video is sucking the oxygen from every other bike-related story on this Bike to Work Day, but it looks like a good number of New Yorkers are keeping their eyes on the prize:...
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May 17
NYC: The Weekly Carnage : The Weekly Carnage is a Friday round-up of motor vehicle violence across the five boroughs and beyond....
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May 17
NYC: Council Member Jimmy Van Bramer and Staff Celebrate Bike to Work Day : Queens Council Member Jimmy Van Bramer and his staff biked to work today. From left to right, Aycan Kaptaner, Matthew Wallace, Council Member Van Bramer, Jason Banrey, and Andres Villa....
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May 17
NYC: Manuel Verdesoto at Least Thirteenth Senior Killed in NYC Traffic in 2013 : Nabaali Cletus was charged for driving without a license, but not for killing Manuel Verdesoto....
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May 17
NYC: Cleared in Traffic Court, Hit-and-Run Killer Still Employed at NYC DOT : A DOT employee who crushed a Manhattan pedestrian with a dump truck and left the scene was not charged with a crime, was cleared of all traffic violations, and remains on the payroll. It is unknown wh...
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May 17
NYC: Greetings From the Manhattan Bridge on Bike to Work Day : Happy Bike to Work Day, everyone....
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May 17
NYC: Today’s Headlines : Manuel Verdesoto, 82, Crossing Street Blocks From Bronx Home, Killed by Unlicensed Driver (News) NYPD Pitches WTC Fortress Plan as a Car-Lite Haven for Pedestrians and Cyclists (NYT, Post) Tom Vanderb...
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May 16
NYC: NYCHA Residents Can Now Sign Up for Discount Citi Bike Memberships : New York City Housing Authority tenants are now eligible to sign up for discounted Citi Bike memberships in a program that was first announced last month. Joining the service costs NYCHA residents $60...
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May 16
NYC: Jumaane Williams: Time to Tame the “East Flatbush Motorist Danger Zone” : City Council Member Jumaane Williams with (l-r) Transportation Alternatives general counsel Juan Martinez, Four-in-One Block Association president Hazel Martinez, and Small Business Men and Women of A...
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May 16
NYC: Eyes on the Street: Don’t Drive Like a Maniac : This sign on Park Avenue in Clinton Hill is one of 11 displays DOT puts out citywide warning drivers to obey the speed limit....
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May 16
NYC: Thursday Job Market : Looking to hire a smart, qualified person for a position in transportation planning, engineering, IT, or advocacy?...
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May 16
NYC: Motorists Killed at Least Two Pedestrians in Marty Golden’s District in April : A pedestrian struck by a motorist on April 1 in Bay Ridge died from her injuries....
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May 16
NYC: Neighborhoods Across NYC Prepping Applications for 20 MPH Slow Zones : The end of May is an important time for livable streets in New York — and not just because of bike-share’s Memorial Day launch. On May 31, Slow Zone applications are due to DOT....
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May 16
NYC: Today’s Headlines : Paul Steely White Daily News Op-Ed: Bike-Share Naysayers Will Be Proven Wrong Soon Enough NY1 Call-In Show Talks Bike-Share Two Nights In a Row, Featuring Our Own Ben Fried on Night 2 (1, 2) Driver Wi...
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