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Here Are The Top 5 Cycling Stories Of 2011: Crackdowns, Lawsuits, Terrorists, Jerks

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John Del Signore

Published Dec 29, 2011

Modified Dec 29, 2011

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2011 was the biggest year of the so-called "bikelash," wherein certain media outlets like the Post did everything they could to amplify a small but vocal (and well-financed) array of people who aren't exactly pleased with NYC's booming growth in commuter cycling. To be sure, New Yorkers have been torn apart by bike lane wars since at least 2008, but this year the rhetoric intensified, the mainstream media coverage expanded, and the city wound up in court defending against a lawsuit that sought to remove a mile-long stretch of bike lane along Prospect Park West. Click though on the photos for five of the cycling stories that the whole world was watching.

 

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John Del Signore

Published Dec 29, 2011

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Originally from the Albany area, John Del Signore has called NYC home since 1995. In addition to his thousands of meticulously-crafted bespoke blog posts for Gothamist, his writing has also been published in The Awl, Deadspin, The Nervous Breakdown, and performed at The Brick Theater in Brooklyn.

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