A Bike-Parking Protected, Protected Bike Lane Grows In Manhattan.
before, there were a lot of bikes on sidewalk, with no place to walk, and bicyclists would ride on the sidewalk from the corner to the parking.
“This is 100% perfect.” —owner of Italian restaurant Casa di Isacco.
streetfilms, 17.04.13.
The Greatest Grid: The Master Plan of Manhattan, 1811-2011, a fine addition to our favorite books about maps, is a catalog of development and destruction, the end of nature and the beginning of urban living.
brainpickings.org, 17.01.12.
(Source: humanscalecities)
New York Summer Streets, 06.08.11.
couldn’t embed this nytimes video:
Bill Cunningham reporting on the Summer Streets NYC, in particular, Park Avenue—a “bicycle paradise”, at least for a little while—closed off to motorists on Saturdays for the month of August [still ongoing?].
![New York Summer Streets, 06.08.11.
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Complete Streets: It’s About More Than Just Bike Lanes
streetfilms.org.
I GOTTA go to NYC.
NYC finally catching up to civilised Europe,
SAN DIEGO/Southern Cali/rest of US except Portland SO FAR BEHIND.
so much work to do here. This sort of thing is gonna be my career, ‘bout to take hella long to make these changes in this part of the States.
