New York Bike Wars

"There are not only 8.4 million New Yorkers but at times 8.4 million traffic engineers," said JS-K. "And we’re, you know, very opinionated.” (Frank Bruni, Bicycle Visionary, New York Times, September 10, 2011).

Some evidence of that: 

Ethan Kent, Ciclovia, Is NYC Ready?, Streetsblog, June 6, 2007

Brian Paul, Copenhagen Comes to New York?, Remapping Debate, February 9, 2011

John Cassidy, Battle of the Bike Lanes, The New Yorker, March 8, 2011

Matt Chaban, Bike Lames! Straw Men on 10-Speeds in New York's Last Culture War, New York Observer, March 9, 2011

Aaron Naparstek, The New York City Bike Lane Backlash is Completely Irrational, Naparstek Post, March 9, 2011

Matthew Shear, Not Quite Copenhagen, Is New York too New York for bike lanes?, New York, March 20, 2011

Brad Cuozzo, Murder on Broadway, Pedestrian lanes blighting biz, New York Post, July 14, 2011

Brad Aaron, In the Tortured Mind of Steve Cuozzo, Even Street Trees Are a Threat, Streetsblog, July 15, 2011

Adam Sternbergh, ‘I Was A Teenage Cyclist,’ or How Anti-Bike-Lane Arguments Echo the Tea Party, The 6th Floor Blog, New York Times, March 9, 2011

Ben Fried, Bin Laden Is Dead, But the Second Avenue Bike Lane Lives On, Streetsblog, July 8, 2011

Steve Cuozzo, The bike-lane cancer Metastasis on Columbus, New York Post, December 12, 2012

Ben Fried, Help Make Sense of Crazy Steve Cuozzo, Streetsblog, December 13, 2012

Noah Kazis, The NBBL Files: PPW Foes Pursued Connections to Reverse Public Process, Streetsblog, December 20, 2012

Noah Kazis and Ben Fried, The NBBL Files: Weinshall and Steisel Manufactured Anti-Bike Coverage, Streetsblog, December 20, 2012

Denis Hamill, 'I hate bike lanes' and support the mayoral candidate who will put the brakes on them, New York Daily News, January 29, 2013, updated January 30, 2013

Christopher Robbins, Daily News Columnist: Big Crashes’ Await Cyclists Who Use Bike Lanes, Gothamist, January 30, 2013

Matt Flegenheimer, Anxiety Over Future of Bike Lanes, New York Times, February 13, 2013

“Someone was saying, ‘Well, you know, Janette Sadik-Khan is trying to domesticate the city.’ As though being run over by a taxi was a sign of New York’s urban vitality.” (Chaban, op. cit.)