Comments on: Ghost Bike Project in the Daily News http://visualresistance.org/wordpress/2005/06/20/daily-news/ redraw democracy Wed, 07 Jan 2009 13:41:22 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=1.5.1.3 by: Streetsblog » Endless Summer on Brooklyn’s Fifth Avenue http://visualresistance.org/wordpress/2005/06/20/daily-news/#comment-23888 Tue, 31 Oct 2006 15:33:49 +0000 http://visualresistance.org/wordpress/2005/06/20/daily-news/#comment-23888 [...] On June 9, 2005, a 28-year-old pro-bono lawyer named Elizabeth Padilla was killed on Fifth Avenue near Park Place when a truck driver carelessly opened his door into the path of her bicycle (Aside: There’s going to be a memorial 5K run for Liz on October 1 in Prospect Park). Fifth Avenue is a designated bike route and in the aftermath of Padilla’s death, community members, elected officials and bike advocates made repeated calls to DOT asking for safety improvements along the narrower stretch of the avenue between Flatbush Avenue and Carroll Street. On May 19 Councilmember Bill DeBlasio received a letter from Brooklyn Borough Commissioner Joseph Palmieri stating, "We anticipate installation" of Class III Bike Route improvements "to be completed by this Summer." [...] […] On June 9, 2005, a 28-year-old pro-bono lawyer named Elizabeth Padilla was killed on Fifth Avenue near Park Place when a truck driver carelessly opened his door into the path of her bicycle (Aside: There’s going to be a memorial 5K run for Liz on October 1 in Prospect Park). Fifth Avenue is a designated bike route and in the aftermath of Padilla’s death, community members, elected officials and bike advocates made repeated calls to DOT asking for safety improvements along the narrower stretch of the avenue between Flatbush Avenue and Carroll Street. On May 19 Councilmember Bill DeBlasio received a letter from Brooklyn Borough Commissioner Joseph Palmieri stating, "We anticipate installation" of Class III Bike Route improvements "to be completed by this Summer." […]

]]> by: k.see http://visualresistance.org/wordpress/2005/06/20/daily-news/#comment-844 Thu, 23 Jun 2005 03:31:58 +0000 http://visualresistance.org/wordpress/2005/06/20/daily-news/#comment-844 Another Bicyclist Killed found this late wednesday evening: Just got word over the Brooklyn Critical Mass list that another cyclist was killed today. According to Jym Dyer over at Time's Up!, Brooklyn bicyclist Andrew Ross Morgan, 25, was killed by a truck in Manhattan on Houston near Elizabeth today. If I find out any more details, I'll post them here. UPDATE: According to Jym, there was some press on the scene; so this might show up in/on the news soon. off of Effers http://eefers.blogspot.com/ Another Bicyclist Killed

found this late wednesday evening:

Just got word over the Brooklyn Critical Mass list that another cyclist was killed today. According to Jym Dyer over at Time’s Up!, Brooklyn bicyclist Andrew Ross Morgan, 25, was killed by a truck in Manhattan on Houston near Elizabeth today. If I find out any more details, I’ll post them here.

UPDATE: According to Jym, there was some press on the scene; so this might show up in/on the news soon.

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