April 2010
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Ezekiel's wheels vision (I like to call it his...
“When the living creatures moved, the wheels moved beside them; and when the living creatures rose from the earth, the wheels rose. Wherever the spirit would go, they went, and the wheels rose along with them; for the spirit of the living creatures was in the wheels. When they moved, the others moved; when they stopped, the others stopped; and when they rose from the earth, the wheels...
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Update on plans for a two-way bike lane on... →
Streetsblog gives a nice recap of a public meeting this week on the proposed addition of a two-way Flushing Avenue bike lane — part of the Brooklyn Waterfront Greenway initiative.
Seems the plans are hardly a done deal…
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losrambles:
RT @jbberk: RT @Brokelyn Cast your vote for bike-sharing in Brooklyn http://is.gd/bDSAQ
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Jamaica Bay bike path is kinda gross right now
I biked most of the Jamaica Bay bike path in Brooklyn for the first time today. It was kind of gross.
Things I had to bike through/over/past/under/around:
1) A 200-yard stretch of detour through packed dirt and deep, soft sand (Melissa actually fell while walking her bike).
2) Two miles of re-routed, bumpy bike lane.
3) Narrow paths over several deteriorating bridges — inches from...
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Williamsburg Bridge path "a mess" this week with... →
I haven’t been on the bridge at all this week, but it sounds like things have been pretty dicey since the southern path was closed for repairs.
At least on the Brooklyn Bridge, there’s clearly one lane for bikes and one for pedestrians…
Any stories you can share from the Willy B this week?
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Cyclist hit and killed by vehicle on Flatbush... →
Another cyclist hit in Manhattan as well…
(Via @streetsblog)
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Just took the Community Board 6 (Brooklyn) bike... →
One question they asked that I thought was great was: Are there any parts of the CB6 bike network that are particularly dangerous? Here’s one of my responses:
“Union Street through Park Slope is pretty dicey sometimes — and it’s a route I commonly take after riding east from Carroll Gardens on the Union Street bike lane toward Prospect Park.”
What do you think?
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