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Biking in Astoria

Awwwww…

My man Andrew Jimenez and the Bicycle Repairman Corp featured in the Queens Times Ledger. It is the best bike store in Astoria and perhaps all of Queens (I don’t know, I haven’t tried them all).

Driver Found at Fault in Crash that Killed Bicyclist

Of course you won’t see that headline in NYC. It’s from San Francisco. What’s interesting is how it happened. The San Fran bike coalition asked businesses if they had video footage. They had. The cops hadn’t asked. The video shows the driver was at fault. As a side note, this was after a cop blocked…
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REBNY: Support Development and Rent Increases in Astoria! (and Vote for Costa)

Can you believe there’s a landlord PAC (political action committee)? Of course you can. REBNY, the Real Estate Board of New York, gives a lot of money to local and state politicians through “Jobs for New York.” (You’re not against “jobs” are you?!) The goal of REBNY: public altruism, of course. Well, and would it…
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Where’s my comment?

I just went through the comment spam filter and found a lot of comments that were not spam. They’ve finally been published. And they go back quite some time. Sorry about that.

Blame Canada

This is rich. And I can’t believe it’s being reported with a straight face. The cab who tried to kill a bike and maimed a tourist blames the bike. The cab admits he didn’t see the bike before the bike started banging on his cab. That’s what Sherlock Holmes would call a “clue.” See, when…
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Fucking Cars

This is the second time in the past year cars have killed or maimed somebody right where I’ve been known to stand or sit. Christ. One minute you’re sitting there eating a hot dog and the next minute you have no foot. Why? Because of speeding fucking cars! As one comment says: Giuliani put cattle…
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The International Bike Index

http://copenhagenize.eu/index/index.html

Three Cheers for the Community Board (not ours, of course)

Streetsblog reports that Manhattan CB6 approved Astoriabike’s 2010 plan (# 2) for the Manhattan side of the Queensboro Bridge! Of course I have no idea if this blog was actually where the idea came from… but it might have been. I’m certainly happy to take credit. And I’m always happy to help. This one-short-block bike…
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