2022 saw some hopeful steps toward a bike-friendlier New York: the city took on the issue of bike lane quality and chronic blockage by cars and trucks with new bikeway barriers. We saw a renewed aggressiveness in DOT street design in places like Downtown Brooklyn’s Schermerhorn Street and Queens’ 34th Avenue, and the MTA loosened its long freeze on bike access to its bridges. On the other hand, our new mayor — a cyclist with a police background — still isn’t enforcing parking or traffic laws, and that doesn’t feel great from the point of view of a bike saddle....

MTA bridge access Bike New York developed the concept for the Metropolitan Transportation Authority’s bridge access legislation in early 2021 and found strong allies for it in the State Legislature and among the coalition of pro-cycling civic organizations that keep biking moving forward in the city. The legislation required the MTA to develop a new strategic approach to bike transportation, including on its bridges.  We kept up a strong drumbeat of behind-the-scenes information sharing and public messaging that the time had finally come to crack the MTA’s bike bans on bridges. We saw the Legislature pass the measure in June...

With pandemic restrictions relaxing in the past year, New Yorkers were hungry to get out and get on their bikes. The demand for classes, both for adults and for youth, was tremendous, and we were proud to meet our community’s need for bike safety education. In particular, the relationships that Bike New York staff nurtured with teachers, principals, and youth program directors during the past couple of years paid off, and our Youth Programs made a big comeback in 2022. More than 1,250 kids were served by our weekday programs, including nine different after school groups, 27 summer camps, and...