Month: December 2008

Biking in Astoria

Yo Ho Ho

I’ll be gone for while. Back in a few weeks. Keep biking!

Kosciuszko Bridge Environmental Impact

A while back my wife heard that a bridge between Queens and Brooklyn was being redesigned without bike or pedestrian access. Harrumph! She did what any concerned citizen would do: she wrote an angry email. She told them! Then, a few minutes later, she realized she was thinking about the Pulaski Bridge (on McGuinness Blvd)…
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San Fran can paint bike lanes again

From Streestblog: Two-and-a-half years after a judge issued an injunction preventing the city from adding any new bicycle infrastructure to its streets, the San Francisco Municipal Transportation Agency (SFMTA) and the San Francisco Planning Department have released a 1353-page Draft Environmental Impact Report (DEIR) on the San Francisco Bicycle Plan. At a cost of more…
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Bring on the clowns

I can’t think of a better use for clowning. To be honest, I can’t really think of *any* other use for clowning. As reported in the Gothamist. So today the clowns came out “to comically draw attention to the serious danger faced by cyclists without safe, protected bike lanes.” Blasting Fat Boy Slim from a…
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Get a light!

I’m happy to write this before I have real reason to. I didn’t get hit. Nobody is hurt. I thought of this while biking past the ghost bike at McGuiness Blvd and Kent St for Liz Byrne. I biked to Flatbush Ave in Brooklyn and was thinking how nice it is, once you get out…
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Gilighan Qabista is the best cab driver in NYC

Gil Avineri, aka Gilighan Qabista, is my favorite cab driver. That’s because of his comments to the previous post: Whenever I make a turn in my taxi, I always have a body count in mind of how many bicyclists I saw as I drove down that block, before I slowed down for the turn. I…
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Urban Repair Squad

Make your own bike lanes! URS Rocks. Here’s the whole manual. Please apply to Astoria and NYC. These guys also have a blog. Meanwhile I’m turning on the giant bat-light-like bike-light on my roof to encourage more action like this. Save us, Urban Repair Squad. We need you!

Biking in the snow?

I love it!

Bicyclist-Assulting Cop Indicted

Five months after the video of the assault, charges against the police officer are coming. Here’s the report from Cop in the Hood. And the Times.

A week without biking

Somehow I lost one of my gloves on a ride home one night. Wasn’t I wearing them? How do you lose a glove on your hand? I don’t know… maybe I wasn’t wearing them. No matter, now I only have one. I’m not one for shopping. And I don’t really know where to buy a…
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