Skip to content

Archive for July, 2007

  • S.F. Giants: Valet Bike Parking 81 Games Per Year

    The San Francisco Giants offer free, convenient, attended bicycle parking at all 81 of their home games.

  • Photos from a Platinum Bike City: Davis, CA

    That's a bus shelter ad from Davis, CA - which according to the League of American Bicyclists is the only Platinum Bicycle city in the U.S. I was there this weekend and in a whirlwind visit and tried to document as much of the city and bike amenities as possible in 36 hours. I [...]

  • One Night of Fire

    Thousands of people walked over the Brooklyn Bridge and invaded the subway system to go out to Coney Island and watch a fantastic display of fire performers.

  • Pedestrian: Obey! What’s up with this?

    Bicycling home from the Village, came across this sign at corner of Washington & Barrow Streets asking peds to obey all pedestrian traffic laws.
    Anyone know what this is for? Odd corner; very low traffic volumes. Looks unofficial.

  • The 86th Street Parallel

    Glenn McAnanama of Upper Green Side explains what 86th Street means for the Mayor Bloomberg's Congestion Pricing plan and the importance to delivery and emergency vehicles.

  • Brooklyn Critical Mass: Feel the Love

    In Brooklyn there is a monthly Critical Mass that has had no arrests or tickets issued for three years!

  • Trading Car Parking for Bike Racks

    In a historic move, the New York City Department of Transportation has replaced three car parking spaces in Williamsburg with on-street bike racks to accomodate about 30 bicycles.

  • Take a Virtual Tour of NYC’s First Chartreuse Bike Lane

    It's a lime green bike lane...and we love it.

  • NYC Metamorphosis!

    Copious amounts of positivity coming from the NYC DOT. Check out these before and afters.

  • StreetFilms at the Pioneer Theater

    Tuesday, July 10th at 7 PM StreetFilms will be showing twenty of our best and most poignant short films from the last year at the Two Boots Pioneer Theater!

    Pioneer Theater

    So please join us for our 85 minute program (titled StreetFilms: Intersection Intervention) and then continue the dialogue afterwards at the free beer and pizza reception in the Den of Cin! Theater is at 155 East 3rd Street.

    Our first event was great and with so many positive transportation changes underway in NYC this year's program is sure to encourage a more livable city and inspire lots of discourse. Theater seats 99 people, so pick up tickets early. Please use this link for tickets and more information.

  • Street Lessons from a Blizzard

    Back in Feb 2006, as the largest ever recorded NYC snowfall (26.9") was winding down, I ran outside with a camera to try to capture some traffic calming, transportation and livable streets lessons.