Photo: Jeffrey Martin, courtesy of the League of American Bicyclists.  Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood made a surprise visit to the closing reception of the National Bike Summit last night, speaking to a record crowd of bicycle advocates and industry representatives, many of whom spent the day swarming ...

The officers who parked here apparently aren't the type to help old ladies cross the street. Photo: ddartley/FlickrThanks to tipster ddartley for the latest chapter in NYPD's ongoing mistreatment of bus riders on 34th Street. Yesterday, eight cruisers from northern Queens (precincts 110, 111, 112, 114 ...

The Weekly Carnage is a Friday round-up of motor vehicle mayhem across the five boroughs and beyond. For more on the origins and purpose of this column, please read About the Weekly Carnage. Sung Won Cho was killed on March 7 ...

Straphangers, are you ready to subsidize the runaway state budget? By popular demand, here's an updated graphic depiction of how the state of New York stole dedicated transit tax revenue from the MTA in last year's deficit reduction package. The $190 million pot of ...

Maureen Landers was walking to pick up her son Max from P.S. 127 in Bay Ridge last April when she was struck by a motorist turning onto Fourth Avenue. Her stroller -- thankfully empty -- was flattened. She was rushed to the hospital but did not sustain major injuries. As ...

Regular readers will notice something new and different across all our sites starting today. Currently, some of the posts you see on the local Streetsblog sites -- New York, San Francisco, Los Angeles and Capitol Hill -- actually originated on a different Streetsblog site and are being syndicated. ...

This week's National Bike Summit culminated in an ambitious new campaign to recruit a million bike advocates and the unveiling of a new Google Maps bike feature. But in a Wednesday session dedicated to the outlook for federal bike investments, cycling advocates hesitated to declare that they could secure new ...

TA: Improvements Needed for East Side's Most Dangerous Intersections (Our Town) Post Thinks Google Bike Routes Lead Cyclists Where They Don't Belong The Groundbreaking: Ratner Gloats; Markowitz Sneers; Guests Invoke Jackie Robinson, God (BP) ...

New bike routes will provide safer connections on the Manhattan side of the Williamsburg Bridge, in an attempt to divert cyclists from Delancey Street. Image: NYCDOT NYCDOT unveiled a slate of pedestrian and bicycle improvements to the transportation committee of Manhattan Community Board 3 last night. Presenters asked ...

At the beginning of the year, Streetsblog embarked on a project we hope will shed light on city pedestrian and cyclist fatalities that appear to have been written off as blameless "accidents." To date, we have filed freedom of information requests with NYPD pertaining to 10 ...

Soon after the Senate signed off yesterday on a $150 billion package of tax extenders and unemployment benefits that was promoted as a job-creation measure -- a bill that lacked dedicated new funding for transportation -- Democrats on the House education and labor committee were releasing their own jobs legislation. ...

You might have seen it making the rounds over the last couple of days -- the new Mercedes ad in which a bike messenger challenges a driver in one of the company's luxury vehicles to a race from Harlem to the Fulton Ferry landing in Brooklyn. There ...

Ravitch Budget Plan Gains Traction Among Desperate Lawmakers (NYT) Groundbreaking for Ratner's Arena Is Today (Crain's, NY1, News 1, 2) Dear Mr. President: Funding for New Transit Projects Welcome, But Don't Forget the Old Ones (MTR) ...

Village Voice entertainment columnist Michael Musto has been riding a bike in New York City for more than 25 years, long before it was fashionable or we had bike lanes and cycletracks. Musto has never had a driver's license, and he tells us the bicycle ...

The wait for bicycle directions on Google Maps has finally ended as the company announced a beta version of its new bicycle directions feature at the League of American Bicyclists National Bike Summit in Washington, D.C. this morning. The new mapping software includes an elegant overlay of bicycle routes based ...

Well over a hundred people filled the auditorium of the Saint Thomas Aquinas Church last week for a forum on the future of Brooklyn's Fourth Avenue put on by the Park Slope Civic Council. The stretch of Fourth Avenue on the western edge of Park Slope saw a wave of ...

Bike directions from the Empire State Building to City Hall on Google Maps.After much anticipation, bicycle directions are finally live on Google Maps.  At the National Bike Summit in Washington, DC today, Google announced that its ...

It says something about the country that we live in that the simple act of walking to work can merit a blog post. But so it is. Today, at her fine blog The Naked City, Mary Newsom wrote about her experience walking the 4.2 miles from her home to her ...

(Photo: Model D Media)The nation's transit systems hosted 10.2 billion trips last year, the American Public Transportation Association (APTA) reported yesterday. While that figure represents a 3.8 percent decline from 2008, APTA's data showed light rail ridership rising in nine cities and the long-term increase in ...

Can the Unions Upend Albany? (Daily Politics)  News Names 24 Shameless Lawmakers Who Blasted MTA on Student MetroCards, Including ... ... Jeff Klein, Now Backing Bid to Exempt Private Schools From Transit Tax (Times Union) ...