Come and hang out tomorrow, Saturday, August 25, at Newtown Ave and 33rd St! Not only will it be great, but we can prove wrong the fools (primarily the lacking-in-manners people who own Alma Bank, Key Food, and United Bros) who think this will lead to Armageddon.
Preach on, my brother: http://92yamericanconversation.org/randy-cohen-how-do-cars-kill/
I was at the meeting about the proposed Newtown Avenue plaza. Not many of you were, I couldn’t help but notice. Anywhere, there were about 80 people there. And I would say a slight majority was against. The anti-change group were a rabble of loutish rude rich Greeks representing United Brothers, Key Foods, and the…
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Let’s put a pedestrian plaza in Newtown Ave between Key Food and Athens Cafe! Not as crazy as it sounds. There’s an NYCDOT and Community Board meeting tomorrow, Tuesday, June 5, from 6:30 to 8pm at Astoria World Manor, 25-22 Astoria Blvd. No doubt Key Food will be fighting hard to save their five parking…
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…But it turns out biking actually is good for society. It’s official now, because it’s quantified. One mile on a bike is a 42¢ economic gain to society, one mile driving is a 20¢ loss. Don’t let it go to your head… or expect a payout. [thanks to J.B.]
At least that’s what you would gather from the NYPD: The NYPD issued more summonses to cyclists than truck drivers last year: truckers got 14,962 moving violation summonses and 10,415 Criminal Court summonses, while cyclists got 13,743 moving violation summonses and a whopping 34,813 Criminal Court summonses. Priorities! Here’s the whole story in Gothamist, covering…
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Mind you, this was in England. But still, impressive that trying to murder a bicyclist with a large weapon is actually a crime.
Common sense. But what they really need to do is allow bikes to go straight on red (after yielding). Stopping at red lights is for cars. Cars are the reason we have red lights. Because cars kill people. Red lights are not there to prove our obedience to a light that represents the authority of…
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As reported in the Guardian. I particularly like the sneaker-and-sun-glass wearing white-jacket-on-black-t-shirt gold-chain fashion sense of the rich-asshole guy who got his car crushed (yes, I know it was all staged). He looks awfully like the guys I see hanging around cafes here in Astoria.
Pop-up cafes in parking spots. “But where will we store our cars for free, at the expense of all taxpayers?”
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