Tag Archives: New York

Guest posting: John Ciccarelli on the NYC Broadway bikeway

Posted on March 4, 2009 by jsallen

“The city has removed one or two travel lanes and created an in-street pedestrian “plaza”, completed with a right-side fence-and-planter barrier, cafe tables, chairs and benches. It’s truly a bold stroke in taking back the street for living, and it was immediately and hugely popular with residents and visitors, but it creates horrendous pedestrian cross-flow issues for the bikeway that runs between it and the sidewalk.” Continue reading →

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Guest posting: John Ciccarelli on the NYC 9th Avenue bikeway

Posted on March 4, 2009 by jsallen

I consider the 9th Avenue bikeway to be “proper” engineering in the small (i.e. purely technical sense) but not in the larger (public stewardship) sense that considers the legal framework that governs a street’s function for all users. Continue reading →

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Review of New York Times article of June 5, 2007

Posted on June 11, 2007 by jsallen

This is a review of the article Cars and Bikes Can Mix, When the Rules of the Road Are Clear, which appeared in the New York Times on June 5, 2007 and is available online. That’s a good headline, except … Continue reading →

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