My name is Ryan Rzepecki. I grew up in Erie, Pennsylvania and have been living in New York for over 7 years. I graduated from Penn State in 2001 with a BS in Marketing and honors in Film and Video Production. My first job in New York was in the publicity department of Paramount Pictures and I have also worked as a freelance video editor. For the last five years I have been driving a horse and carriage in Central Park while studying for a Masters in Urban Planning at Hunter College. I graduate this May, and am currently interning with the bikes division of the NYC Department of Transportation.
The DOT bikes division installs bike racks, produces an annual bike map, and oversees the design and construction of new bike lanes. Since the appointment of Commissioner Sadik-Kahn, the agency has been aggressively pursuing bike and pedestrian projects. In 2008, several new public plazas were created and over 90 new miles of bike lanes were installed. IBikeNYC.com is not officially affiliated with the DOT. This is a personal project and the views I express on the website do not necessarily represent the agency.
I hope my experience in video production, marketing, publicity, and urban planning help make this an interesting site. In addition to daily written content, I plan on producing a series of videos that promote cycling in New York. I’ll provide updates from the DOT when possible and share feedback from this site with my coworkers when appropriate. I can be reached at ryan@ibikenyc.com if you would like to collaborate on any projects.
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I am writing from San José, Costa Rica and I do like your post. You have done it with passion, a little of humor and ntelligence. I would like to say However, here is like an impossible mission. It is almost reduced to talk about a children game, a sport, and is still the way to transportation in some rural places so far my home. Painfully, at downtown in San José, biking is unthinkable because we have not lanes, we are not prepared, and also we do not have the infrastructure to develop it. I had read news related to some projects, and I hope the plans will become true very soon. I went to a seminar with the former mayor por Bogotán, and he told me that building biking have helped the city to promote exercise, to respect ther urban develop and to reduced traffic. More than 350 thousands per day uses its bikes, an increase from 0 of 5% of the population there.
I am writing from Costa Rica and I do like your post. You have done it with passion, little of humor and intelligence. I would like to say, however, that biking at my town is like an impossible mission. It is almost reduced to talk about children game, a sport, and this is still the way to transportation in some rural places. Painfully, at downtown in San José, biking is unthinkable because we have not lanes, we are not prepared and also we do not have the infrastructure to develop it. I had read news related to some projects, and I hope plans will become true very soon. I went to a seminar with the former mayor of Bogotá, and he said that building biking routes have helped the city to promote exercise, to respect the urban develop and to reduced traffic. More than 350 thousands of people per day do cycling. It represents an increase from 0 to 5% of the population of Colombia´s capital. Interesting, isn´t it?