Bike to School day was a Bike Month promotion that I initiated before leaving DOT. I reached out to my friend Rachel who is a teacher at Middle School 51 and she set up a meeting with the principal, who embraced the idea. I then brought the proposed project to my boss at the DOT and it was approved just before I left. The week before the event, Bike New York conducted a ‘bike drivers ed’ and held a bike safety assembly after which DOT Safety Education did a helmet fitting and give-away. Matthew Modine and Bicycle for a Day supplied some bikes for a raffle (courtesy of Fox News!) and together we all rode on Friday, May 28th. Check out the excellent Streetfilm of the event and my Flickr set. The event was a great success and hopefully the start of an annual tradition.
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I JUST bought my first bike for NYC biking-with-traffic today. I was looking online for biking laws and came across your blog. I, too, just received a Masters from Hunter and I’m also from Erie!! How strange is that?
I have to say, riding down Steinway Street is not that same as riding to McDowell…not sure how I’m going to get used to that.
Anyway, great site and congratulations on the Masters!
That’s crazy?! How long have you lived in New York? Biking in Queens is pretty rough — not a lot of bike lanes.