This is my favorite bike advocacy video in a long time. I love how direct the kids are about saying they deserve to move about their neighborhood safely. Well done Piers Park Sailing! They have more videos on Instagram: www.instagram.com/piersparksai...

Strange how so many will shame people on bikes for not wearing helmets yet don’t have much to say about bike lanes without protection. Via @thebikinglawyer.bsky.social

Saturday's Weather Rating: 10/10 🥳🎉THE FIRST PERFECT DAY OF 2026!!! High temperatures reach the upper 70s with comfortable dew points, sunny skies and a southerly breeze. That's the secret formula, man. The vibes are immaculate out there!!

It’s shaping up to be a gorgeous day tomorrow ☀️😎🚲 What better way to kick it off than by joining a whole bunch of your friends, families, and neighbors for a short and joyful group bike ride to support the proposed redesign of West 72nd Street. Details at the link below. Hope to see you there!

Maybe it’s the dude from Jersey in the shiny Super Duty running a red light just to block the crosswalk that’s the real problem and not e-bikes, but who’s to say, really.

some really, really exciting news. we're hiring a two-year reporting fellow to cover higher ed in NYC but especially CUNY!! come work with me and dive into an amazing, complicated and under-covered beat

American communities will struggle to achieve lasting change until they reckon with the outsized influence of the car-first NOMS, or "Not on My Street."

To the person with a Tern Bicycle stuck to a legendary KEXP Sticker, we see you. 🤌

To the person with the KEXP sicker on your @ternbicycles.com GSD, I see you 😎🤘

“They’re too young to ride" Nope. They’re ready to ride, it’s our cities that aren’t ready.

Much talk about @mayor.nyc.gov & @nyc-dot.bsky.social announcement to bring bike boulevards to Bergen & Dean Streets in Brooklyn! We only have a few in NYC but this thru Sunnyside was the FIRST and is definitely the best! @bergenbikebus.bsky.social @coachbalto.bsky.social youtu.be/lhkuY-o4Tfc?...

Street resurfacing and you can see how great our neighborhoods look without wall-to-wall car storage

Rode the Bergen Bike Bus today to make a big announcement: We’re redesigning Bergen Street and Dean Street, from Court Street to East New York Ave — adding new bike boulevards and more pedestrian space. Safer rides to school for New York City kids coming soon.

inspired by a post I saw on here and have since lost, I've started reading "AI companies" as "cigarette manufacturers," so something like this becomes "maker of Newports backs bill to fund smoking literacy in schools"

There is nothing more important than keeping New Yorkers safe, and reining in super speeders will save lives. I am proud to support efforts in Albany to enable new tools like Intelligent Speed Assistance (ISA) in our fight for safe streets.

Something very annoying is how people misrepresent the position of advocates as, "You want everyone to bike!" No, we want everyone to have a multitude of safe, efficient, accessible, and affordable options, whether that's bikes, scooters, trains, buses...or simply walking.

I've been upset all day because a 10-year-old girl was hit and killed by a driver while playing in front of her house. I think of the kids in my neighborhood who are always playing in and around the street. Children deserve to be able to move freely and safely and it infuriates me that they can't.

Technology changes but geometry endures.

@bikeleague.org @shabazzstuart.bsky.social @nyc.streetsblog.org soundcloud.com/biketalk/26-...

Truly wild research on the change in bike mode share in NYC, London, Paris and Berlin. Between 2000 and 2023, Paris went from 1 out of every 100 trips being on a bike to *one out of 9!* Many people, including credible researchers, would have told you that that *could not* happen.

Learning to ride a bike is a child's first taste of independence. Cities need to honor that milestone by building human-first infrastructure that actually gives kids the autonomy to ride safely, completely protected from the threat of motorists and their oversized, overpowered cars.

"Nearly 75% of the cars traveling on the Upper West Side are 'cut-through traffic,' meaning the car’s journey begins and ends outside the neighborhood..."

With all these great recent announcements, can we get to this in NYC on Broadway, over the bridges, 1st & 2nd Aves, West Side Highway, etc by the end of @mayor.nyc.gov first term? Streetfilms brings you the street from about a dozen angles to provide you with the scope of its beauty.

My son took this photo today of the NYC #nokings march as we passed through Times Square

Even if we're to believe that the kid "ran from his mom and into the street before he was hit," as the cops claim, we need streets that allow kids to be kids. As @sgoodyear.bsky.social says, children "dart." That's what they do. Lower speed limits enforced by design would prevent these tragedies.

Gotta call bullshit. Note how this concern is never brought up for one-way, one-lane streets with no bike lane with parking on both sides leaving no room for drivers to pull over to make way for emergency vehicles. Same thing with big arterials such as Flatbush or Atlantic that are often jammed.

"School Streets" have become a thing to watch. Even the loudest high-traffic neighbourhood trumpets will mumble "Except outside schools, of course", but this ignores how (1) kids don't live next to their schools and need to get to the School Street safely and (2) kids go to places that aren't school

if you ever use the word agentic irl we can’t be friends

Make it stop

This kind of neglect send the message that cycling is a cute pastime and not a serious mode of transportation that people rely on. Weird behavior for a bike share company.

I do not understand why we need cars that are not driven by people, when the option to expand and optimize public transit is right there.

Food delivery orders in nyc today should include a mandatory 120% tip.

Unofficial* snowfall amount in Manhattan as of 1 pm: 6.5” *based on the picnic table in front of our building

This year I have come to appreciate that this is a tool for childhood independence and parental freedom

“One of the things I’m interested in is how we move from just counting miles of things we build to, What’s the impact? What’s the result?”

"Cities are meant to stop traffic. That is their point. That is why they are there. That is why traders put outposts there, merchants put shops there, hoteliers erect inns there. Rationally one wants to have traffic *stop* there, not go *through*." —Kirkpatrick Sale, Human Scale.

“In Utrecht, the bike is not an end in itself. It is a means to create a liveable, healthy, climate-friendly city for all. The success can be admired in the inner city. It is lively and yet quiet at the same time. Here, it's noticeable: Cities aren't loud; only cars are, and they play no role here.”

My kid and I biked to school this morning. We wore a hat and gloves. It’s okay to go outside if you want to, I promise.

The American obsessions with the latest coolest technology regardless of expense and with the (often imagined) freedoms provided by the automobile are unrelenting.

Don’t worry, the e-bike that did this isn’t allowed to go more than 15mph.

Good morning! AI is being force-fed to you by a handful of billionaires who will lose a bunch of money if they fail to convince you that you need it. You do not need it 🫶

Zohran Mamdani you must keep the city’s historic bike boom going nyc.streetsblog.org/2025/11/05/a...

The value of #schoolstreets #openstreets #plazas cannot be measured by cranks. But ask children - they know our streets are out of balance. Broadway near UnionSquareNY! #Urbanism

Very happy to cast my early vote for @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social to be the next mayor of NYC.

“Kids make mistakes. Kids get distracted. It's our responsibility when designing cities to think, what is that child's experience and how do I ensure what I'm doing will have a positive impact. as opposed to putting the burden on their caregiver to ensure they're safe.” biketalk.org/2025/10/2541...

Pumpkin on a @bromptonbicycle.bsky.social in Central Park

I reread this every so often and I'm struck every time by how great it is unevenearth.org/2018/08/the-...

Three newly published books argue that cars are destroying society as well as the planet. Is the world finally ready to rein in the automobile? My essay, in @bloomberg.com (gift link below)

Gale Brewer’s sudden reversal of support for universal daylighting is supposedly not about preserving a few free parking spaces, but all evidence suggests otherwise.