WIND ADVISORY FOR NEW YORK CITY

Good morning! The National Weather Service has issued a Wind Advisory
which is in effect on Saturday, February 19 from 3:00 AM to 12:00 AM
(midnight). Forecasts predict 25-35 mile per hour (mph) sustained winds
with possible gusts up to 50-60 mph. Potential impacts include: downed
tree limbs causing scattered power outages, loose debris, and difficult
driving conditions.

Accordingly, we recommend everyone: Take special
care when traveling during the day. Avoid areas that may contain
construction and other debris. Be aware of the possibility of falling
tree limbs. Take precautionary steps should there be power outages in
areas with above ground power lines.

Thank you and have a safe holiday weekend!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aLY03eo0uxo&feature=player_embedded

Saw the above this morning right on the corner of my street. Ok so she broke the law but the response was ridiculous..

http://www.nycticketblitz.com/

my co-worker friend created this website for the cycling ticketing blitz that has been going on. please fill in your ticket info, if you've received one. for some initial data points, i filled in all the tickets that were on this thread (http://www.nycc.org/message-board/look-out-strict-red-light-enforcement-...).

what's great about this site are the statistics. number of tickets, time of day/week, un/fair, sum of fines, and if you were a programming nerd, you can even view the raw data and do your own graphs.

please forward this to your friends who have received tickets. crca, 5bbc, ta, fast and fabulous, major taylor, jbenepe and other bike clubs, please post this on your message board and blogs.

Just listed a ride for this coming Sunday 2/20. Check the ride schedule for details.

I was riding up to the bridge today, being very cautious on Riverside Drive, but didn't see may police. However as I was climbing Ft. Washington at the hospital, an officer stepped out from between two parked cars midblock right in front of me. He never gave me a look - just casually jaywalked across the street. The only thing that saved us both from injury was the fact that I was climbing...which I do painfully slowly, so I had time to react and miss him.

Meet on the NJ side of the GWB to clip in and roll out at 7:15am.
Henry Hudson Drive to Alpine, then onward to Piermont for a quick stop before turning around and heading into Manhattan via 9W.
Bring essentials for self sufficiency.

RSVP's appreciated.
[email protected]

With warming weather were all itching to go out and ride. But a word of caution,watch out for pot holes, I have seen several injuries that occurred when the cyclist rode smack into them spilling the cyclist on the road.

You donate $1 to a NYCC pool for every lap you do in the park. 3 laps for 3 bucks. If you're ticketed, you can pay your fine from the pool. But only one ticket per person. I recognize this will be vilified as a first step down a slippery slope towards cycling socialism, so Republicans will oppose it. On the other hand, as it's reliant on an honor system that is as easily circumvented as taxes for the super-wealthy, maybe Republicans will support it.

I hear you already: oh, god, no, of course I'm not serious. It's me. Or I.

First, for those on Facebook, there's a "Concerned Cyclists in Central Park" page. If Facebook groups could work in Egypt, it could work for us Big Apple cyclists

Second, There's an article by Corbin Kappler, titled "The End of a NYC Cycling Era."
http://corbinkappler.com/2011/02/17/the-end-of-a-nyc-cycling-era/

Excerpt:
"With the recent enforcement of red lights in Central Park and elsewhere around the city, could cyclists be pushed out of a once perfect training arena? This is the question many of us are asking, or at least thinking. We’ve seen red light crackdowns before but nothing like the current episode.

I did HH repeats with the 7AM group. We were not bothered by the police. Can anyone report about enforcement activity in the park below 102 b/w 7 & 8 AM? I think it would be good for people to report their observations from different times of day.

After 8 I did one final lap in the park cyclocross style-hop on, hop off. There were a lot of cops but they did not bother me when I hopped off and walked the bike across the cross walk. I guess there's no box for "Jay Walking With Bike". I never realized how many lights there are on the drive and how closely spaced some of them they are. I always assumed about a dozen but it's considerably more.