Anyone that drives on Fourth Avenue or rides in a cab or car service vehicle down it knows that it’s a scary street. (As do pedestrians, of course.) On of the most awful parts of the Fourth Avenue Experience (other than the hideous architecture of some of the new buildings and the wretched planning decisions […]

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[Photo courtesy of captaindisko/flickr] On Monday, we posted about a new effort in Carroll Gardens to try to find ways to calm traffic and stop accidents. It was spurred by an accident that could have hurt or killed people late last week. A GL reader left a comment that directed us to this photo of […]

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There was a pretty bad car accident on Smith Street over the weekend and it’s led to the formation of new group to talk about and try to do something about traffic safety issues on both Court and Smith Streets, which like many local streets, often feature drivers going way to fast for what are […]

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A forum on traffic in Park Slope and Prospect Park will be coming up on Wednesday, October 15 at 7PM at the Community Bookstore, which is at 143 Seventh Avenue in Park Slope. (The issue of banning traffic in the park is a divisive one in the community). Here’s an email about the forum: All […]

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Williamsburg remains one of the epicenters of trashed bicycles in Brooklyn. This sad specimen comes from N. 11 Street right near Roebling.

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Front and center we have a Classic American Gas Guzzler. Sneaking up behind it we have a food delivery via bicycle that is clearly not guzzling gas. The contrast comes from Williamsburg.

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We found the Godzilla handlebar ornamentation on Fifth Avenue in Park Slope. It lends a certain dignity to the bike, we think.

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Oftentimes, we feature bikes that have been stripped down to their essence while chained to a pole or sign. But, there’s nothing in life like multi-tasking, so we’re always fascinated by bikes that are parked and have baskets attached that end up being used as trash receptacles. On the one hand, it’s not cool. On […]

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[Photo courtesy of Tracy Collins/flickr] Is your bus driver awake? Here’s on that wasn’t, per a post on Brooklynian: On my way to work this morning, my bus driver on the B65 was nodding off at the wheel. I didn’t realize what was happening at first because I was sitting towards the back of the […]

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How about a bike ride on Sunday through Brooklyn’s parks? Well, the Transportation Alternatives Brooklyn Committee Parks Ride will take in a bunch of them. It runs from 10:30AM-3PM (depending on group pace) and starts at Fort Greene Park at Dekalb Avenue and Cumberland Street. Here’s a bit from our email from them: The Brooklyn […]

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This image comes from beneath the Culver Viaduct (aka the tracks between Carroll Gardens and Park Slope) from a GL Reader. Call it tires in transit.

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We came across this tidbit about how the MTA is now taking B61 service issues more seriously because of Ikea in the course of an entirely different email discussion on the Brooklyn Baby Hui (Williamsburg parent) group about petitioning the MTA to make buses more stroller friendly. Here’s the bit about the reviled B61 we […]

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Those new bike lanes on Manhattan Avenue in Greenpoint are proving popular for many purposes and uses, including–you guessed it–parking. A GL reader who was using the bike lanes for bicycling, sent us a big series of photos featuring people who are using the bike lane for parking. He writes: “All of these pics were […]

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Here’s an email that originated with the Park Slope Parents group that we think is thoughtful enough and interesting enough to present to readers. It deals with the issue of how to live in Brooklyn without a car, which is a topic which many readers, no doubt, have opinions about. Here are some excerpts: We’ve […]

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The new bike routes through Greenpoint are not universally love, in part, because the part of the route on Manhattan Avenue strikes a bunch of people as being dangerous. “I’m not concerned with the current Project Route but rather the Future Planned Route. Those little red dots that appear to be heading down Manhattan Avenue […]

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We found this bike parked in a small community garden/park in Red Hook off Columbia Street. It’s got that perfect combination of “no bike” message plus bike that always makes for the perfect photo. In defense of the bike, it was parked inside the fence and we believe the sign applied to chaining bike on […]

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One of the areas that will be part of a new city test of increasing parking meter rates at peak times is Midwood. “The program’s goal is to increase turnover in curbside parking spaces in the test areas — a section of Greenwich Village in Manhattan and a stretch of Kings Highway and adjacent streets […]

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“I live in Bay Ridge, and commute to Manhattan by mass transit. This has always meant a journey involving the R train, but not this past week. I decided to conduct a scientific experiment and commute for a week via the Express Bus. Since most people in Bay Ridge have never taken an express bus, […]

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Do you have any design and planning skills? Want to try your hand at redesigning a fairly wretched Brooklyn street and intersection? Your moment has arrived. Transportation Alternatives is sponsoring a “Designing the 21st Century Street” competition for the intersection. They say “We are looking for new conceptual and physical approaches to the planning of […]

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[Image courtesy of Curbed] A reader sent in photos to Curbed yesterday of a new city-financed $1.25 million Water Taxi dock being floating into place at Schaefer Landing in Williamsburg. The original dock was removed after East River service was suspended during the winter. The Water Taxi East River Service was reinstated on Monday and […]

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Did the Great Park Slope Parking Experiment, which generated a disproportionate number of news articles and led to some vocal complaints, make it harder or easier to park? The Department of Transportation has posted a survey and is trying to get a sense of whether it made it harder to mark, easier or made no […]

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“In conjunction with the mayor’s plan to make New York City a more sustainable environment, Transportation Alternatives is pushing to take the 2007 automobile restrictions to the next level by making Prospect Park completely car-free. In fact, Car-Free Prospect Park is one of Transportation Alternatives major campaigns. If all goes well, Prospect Park will be […]

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Generally the bus-related rants that we come across have to do with the reviled B61. This one, however, which was posted by to Brooklynian by apresvu has to do with the B67, which we don’t hear about very much. Here it is: I take the B67 every morning usually about 7:25am from south slope heading […]

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The redo of Vanderbilt Avenue from a wide street that was a automobile free for all, to a calmed stretch with a lane of traffic in each direction with bike lanes and landscaped traffic islands is moving ahead very, very quickly.–Brownstoner

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Oh, the singular joy of the deconstructed bicycle. We do love them. This one is from Wythe Avenue in Williamsburg on the South Side and it has clearly been reduced to its essence. We’re not sure how an actual tire and wheel have survived the onslaught, but they have.

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