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Bike to Work Day 2013 (aka “Friday”) 17 May 2013 | 02:59 pm
This is just a small sample of the bike traffic I saw on the Manhattan Bridge this morning. To put the video in context, I shot this after 9:00 as I rode home. The bike volume for the morning had li...
“The warnings were dire.” 16 May 2013 | 08:39 pm
Tom Vanderbilt has a great take on the heated reaction to bike share we’ve seen in New York lately, relating it to one of the many changes this city has seen during its esteemed history. Insofar as th...
Sunday: Moms on Bikes 16 May 2013 | 12:40 pm
This Sunday, May 19th, WE Bike NYC is hosting an event in Carroll Park to introduce bike-curious moms (and dads, too!) to bicycling with kids. Volunteers and representatives from various shops, inclu...
Do cyclists really want to “have it both ways”? 15 May 2013 | 07:22 pm
I cringe at much of the cycling behavior I see on New York City streets and share some of the sentiment expressed by Sarah Goodyear in her lament in the Atlantic Cities, but I think her piece misses t...
Bike Share Before and After 15 May 2013 | 02:40 pm
Here’s the corner of Dean Street and 4th Avenue before a Citi Bike station was installed: And here’s the same corner after Park Slope’s only Citi Bike station went in on Tuesday: I happen to love this...
The Daily Snooze 13 May 2013 | 03:52 am
Yawn. Another dumb story in the Daily News trashing something related to bicycles. Here are some things to keep in mind before reading or reacting to Simone Weischselbaum’s review of the Citi Bike bic...
Citi Bike Countdown: Testing the Docks 10 May 2013 | 07:39 pm
I happened upon this Citi Bike crew on Hudson and West Houston just a little while ago. They’re roaming the city today, testing stations and docks to make sure they properly engage and disengage bicy...
The Bike Share Criticism Challenge 10 May 2013 | 04:12 am
If you follow me on Twitter, you may have seen a few of my rather straightforward tweets in which I repeat some of the main criticisms of bike share offered by NIMBYs as they fight tooth and nail to m...
It Takes a Village to Change a Street 9 May 2013 | 02:20 am
As I’ve written many times before, historic charm is often in the eye of the beholder. So when people say that changing a street will in some way ruin the historic characteristics of the neighborhood...
Quote of the Day 8 May 2013 | 09:41 pm
Via Lloyd Alter at Treehugger: 99 Bank Street, in New York’s West Village is a lovely historic pile on a lovely historic cobblestone street. A hundred years ago, it was probably full of bikes. Then th...
