Welcome to BRBRbrooklyn! Whether you are pedaling to the shore, the store, your neighbor’s stoop, or back to your own coop, this blog is for you. Bay Ridge Bicycle Routes is an effort raise to awareness within our neighborhood and among civic groups about the activities of bicyclists in Bay Ridge and other nearby communities in southern Brooklyn.

Our neighborhood’s immediate access to the harbor, less congested street traffic, friendly atmosphere, expansive parks and flat terrain (except, of course, for the steep ridge in Bay Ridge!) makes our corner of New York City one of the most fantastic places to ride a bicycle. Whether for transportation, recreation, fun or fitness, cycling is great in Bay Ridge.

Saturday, June 29, 2019

Robyn Hightman & Ernest Askew

Robyn Hightman & Ernest Askew were two additional cyclist killed in NYC this week.

We knew Robyn.

Condolences to Robyn's and Ernest's friends and family.

https://nyc.streetsblog.org/2019/06/28/end-legal-murder-in-nyc-hundreds-mourn-cyclist-robyn-hightman-in-memorial-ride/

https://www.facebook.com/supermintusa/posts/this-is-not-the-story-we-wanted-to-sharewhen-we-created-our-teams-ambassador-pro/1809263149177100/

https://bklyner.com/cyclist-death-brownsville-ernest-askew/

https://nypost.com/2019/06/28/brownsville-cyclist-fatally-hit-as-cyclist-deaths-soar/

https://pix11.com/2019/06/28/man-fatally-struck-by-car-in-brooklyn-second-cyclist-killed-in-nyc-streets-this-week-police/

 https://gothamist.com/2019/06/28/cyclist_brooklyn_death_nyc.php

Robyn Hightman.  Photo from the Hagens Berman Supermint Pro Cycling Team.
Location of Earnest Askew's fatality, Sutter Ave & Chester Street, Brooklyn.  Photo from Google and Gothamist.

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Saturday, June 22, 2019

Welcome to 2019!


Hello and welcome to the concluding months of the second decade of the 21st Century!

It's been about 9 years since Community Board 10 last heard a consolidated push from DOT and the cycling community about improving bicycling connections in the neighborhood.  Similar improvements were voted down in 2010 and 2011 by CB10, and it was largely voted down again by CB10 in 2019. Though this time, DOT and our elected representatives are saying they will ignore the CB10 vote and paint the routes anyways.

Perhaps because in the first 4 months of 2019, 4 of the 8 cycling deaths in all of NYC occurred in South Brooklyn?

Maybe because a decade of street improvements and traffic calming methods being used throughout the city still have not been widely implemented in Bay Ridge, resulting in repeated reckless driving?  The driving ignorance is higher than BRBR has ever seen.  As one example of its worst, we've first-hand witnessed a car blow through 3 red lights in a row along 3rd Ave: Marine Ave, 99th Street, and Shore Road.

We're looking forward to taking a step towards joining the rest of NYC's present-day street design methods and policies.

Map of the expanded bicycle route network.  Image from Streetsblog.

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