Anatomy Of A Greenpoint Bike Accident »

I also want to live somewhere this doesn’t happen. :/

n8han:

Michelle remembered why she stopped calling. “[Detective Almonte] was like, ‘Listen, you should be lucky you’re alive.’ ” This was the last time she spoke with anyone from the department. “It’s like you can play Grand Theft Auto in the streets and hit real people and ditch your car and that’s allowed,” she said. “Honestly, I feel like the only way that this case would have gotten more attention is if I’d been brain dead or physically dead.”

I want to live somewhere that this doesn’t happen.

Brooklyn Borough President Marty Markowitz sings a song of his own composition about the scourge of bike lanes in his beloved borough. See if you don’t recognize the tune.

via HotSoupMC

Call For Action in Greenpoint Following DJ's Death »

ghostbikesfilm:

In response to the death of 33-year-old DJ Solange Raulston, who was struck by a flatbed truck while on her bike in Greenpoint Sunday afternoon, Transportation Alternatives and Neighbors Allied for Good Growth (NAG) have released a statement calling for action.

Raulston was at the intersection of Nassau Avenue and McGuinness Boulevard when she was sideswiped (a ghost bike memorial is planned), and the groups call the area North Brooklyn’s most dangerous intersection, with 34 crashes and 2 fatalities occurring there in between 1995 and 2005 — and now they’re asking for some long-overdue safety improvements.

While the Department of Design and Construction is restructuring Nassau Avenue, the project (which aims to be completed by 2012) does not focus on safety features. T.A. and NAG are asking that the plans consider the high number of cyclists, pedestrians and trucks that frequent the deadly intersection. They’re calling for open sight lines at all corners by removing one parking spot, the installation of wider refuge medians, more walk time for pedestrians to cross the street and extended curbs into the street to slow turning vehicles.

Director of T.A., Paul Steely White, said in the statement: “Seldom does a week pass without flowers being laid in someone’s memory at this dangerous crossing. No one should underrate the necessity of making the most dangerous intersection in North Brooklyn safer. Now is the time for the City to act.” Your move, city.

"Scantily clad hipster cyclists attracted to the Brooklyn neighborhood made it difficult, the Hasids said, to obey religious laws forbidding them from staring at members of the opposite sex in various states of undress." »

urbancyclist:

iaminlikewithmybike:

claytoncubitt:

(thanks KT!)

Been following this “scandal” in NYC.  Sadly it’s not very funny, as the Jews in question have successfully lobbied to have bike paths REMOVED from the area.  Absurd.

THE DEATH SET - NEGATIVE THINKING