Month: October 2007

Biking in Astoria

Will Bicycling to Work Get You Killed?

A mildly interesting discussion in the comments on the NYT Freakonomics blog. I like the statistical point that it makes more sense to compare trip to trip and not mile to mile, since people who bike likely have shorter commutes. I also like the point that it would save more lives if people wore helmets…
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My Bike NYC Master Plan

Instead of just complaining, I thought I’d actually be constructive and show what we want (that’s the royal we, of course). [Before you go on, take a quick and wild guess as to how many north/south traffic lanes there are spanning the width of Manhattan at 57th St.] As it stands now, every time I…
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How New Yorkers Ride Bikes

We went to see David Byrne talk about bikes. At Town Hall and part of the New Yorker Festival. It was nice. Certainly a preaching-to-the-choir kind of event. But I enjoyed it. What I liked: That 1,200 people would pay $25 to see David Byrne talk about bikes. Jan Gehl’s spiel about biking in Copenhagen.…
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