Montclair’s Bay Street Bike Depot celebrates its one year anniversary and its...
The Bike Depot at the Bay Street NJ Transit train station celebrated one year of service on October 15, 2015. A few days before, on October 12, the Depot reached a significant milestone: its 1,000th...
View ArticleHoboken’s businesses stand to benefit financially from the proposed bike lane...
By Cyndi Steiner and Matthew Meisel Bike lanes have been shown to increase the safety for all road users due to their traffic calming effects: fewer car-car crashes, fewer car-pedestrian crashes, and...
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NJBWC Provides Law Enforcement Officers with “A Bike’s Eye View” of State...
by Aaron Hyndman A new course offered by the New Jersey Bike & Walk Coalition and Voorhees Transportation Center at Rutgers University–New Brunswick provided law enforcement officers in five...
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2015 Year-End Review
2015 In Review: Seeing the Glass Half Full as Momentum Builds for Great Bike and Pedestrian Happenings in New Jersey by Aaron Hyndman This month, Bicycling magazine gave us a year-end run-down of the...
View ArticleBill to Create Empowered Pedestrian and Bicycle Safety Advisory Council Falls...
Seeing the Road Ahead…As It Crumbles Before Our Eyes: Bill to Create Empowered Pedestrian and Bicycle Safety Advisory Council Falls Prey to “Pocket Veto” from Governor Christie by Cyndi Steiner...
View ArticleBike the Strike: Use your bike to survive the NJTransit strike
With the looming NJ Transit rail workers strike bringing service cuts that will strand 60% of NJTransit commuter rail riders starting on March 13, next Monday morning promises to be a traffic...
View ArticleKennedy Boulevard: Enforcement is not enough
After the deadly crash on March 5 on Kennedy Boulevard in Union City that claimed the lives of two local teenagers and injured a third, little was said about the need to right-size the road following...
View ArticleA Tale of Two Bike Shares
Proposed time limit on dockless bike share threatens biking options to Jersey City For Hudson County bike share users, it was the best of times, it was the worst of times. Riders in Hoboken and Jersey...
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Bike Expo New York Recap
It Takes More Than A River to Divide Us: Bike Riders from Both Sides of the Hudson Embrace NJBWC’s Message about Bike Advocacy in New Jersey at Bike Expo New York by Aaron Hyndman Happy Bike...
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Asbury Park: What is there to like about Main Street?
Stroad: “…a street/road hybrid and, besides being a very dangerous environment (yes, it is ridiculously dangerous to mix high speed highway geometric design with pedestrians, bikers and turning...
View ArticleChanges in DC Raise Red Flag for Bicycle and Pedestrian Safety in New Jersey
President-elect Donald Trump’s selection of Elaine Chao to lead the U.S. Department of Transportation, along with a Republican-controlled Congress, may stifle the advancement of bicycle and pedestrian...
View ArticleYear-end recap and many opportunities for 2017
From providing guidance to community advocacy groups, to advocating for statewide legislation and funding, to supporting federal policy campaigns, NJBWC was on the job throughout the year, working to...
View ArticleProposed pedestrian safety bill takes pedestrian safety backwards
A4449 – Driver and Pedestrian Mutual Responsibility Act – could better be known as the “Driver Immunity and Pedestrian Blaming Act” or the “Get out of the way or get hit” Act. This misguided attempt at...
View ArticleAdvocacy Moves Asbury Park Forward
After Asbury Park’s Mayor John Moor abruptly shut down NJDOT’s proposed road diet along the city’s Main Street/State Route 71 in October 2015, it appeared that Asbury Park was to remain entrenched in...
View ArticleMontclair Ripe for Shared-Use Mobility Options
During the past decade, Montclair Township has undergone substantial investment in mixed-use redevelopment projects along the Bloomfield Avenue corridor, creating new housing options, and igniting a...
View ArticleTeaching Law Enforcement Officers How to Ride a Bike in Traffic
Over the past few weeks, the NJBWC educated nearly 150 law enforcement officers in 50 police departments from seven New Jersey counties in the rules of the road for bike riders. The course, “Title 39:...
View ArticleEducating new drivers on the rights of bike riders and pedestrians
S2894 – a bill that will require the state’s driver education course, certain new driver brochures, and the driver’s license written exam to include cyclist and pedestrian safety information – was...
View ArticleDebunking the most common Complete Streets myths
As statewide advocates, we lead or participate in many discussions about Complete Streets, traffic calming, pedestrian and bicycle safety, and creating livable communities. From municipality to...
View ArticleFunds for safer bicycing and walking: Rethinking the TAP program in New Jersey
Safe Routes to School National Partnership reported earlier this month that NJ lost $6.2 million in TAP funds this past October 1. There were four states in the nation who lost these funds, and New...
View ArticleIt’s Not Just Bikes
Why is it so important that the New Jersey Bike & Walk Coalition does what it does? Much more is at stake than just freshly painted bike lanes and crosswalks, shiny new bike racks, and fancy...
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