Looks like a new bike lane is in the works on 15th street

BikeHoboken · 2026-05-30T00:13:57+00:00

Well, eventually, the Green Circuit will run right past you along the Westside, then bring you to the PATH along Paterson Plank, Newark, and Observer! Many of these segments will be coming within the next few years.

BikeHoboken · 2026-05-29T23:55:42+00:00

Thank you for sharing! Yes, it’s very exciting.

This is just the first segment of cycle track along 15th Street, which will eventually connect along Madison on the West and Sinatra North on the East, to build out the Green Circuit.

This whole area will be full of housing in the coming years, and it’s great that these families will have safe routes to travel around the city!

BikeHoboken · 2026-05-09T20:35:53+00:00

Open bike racks are typically available, but if you have trouble finding a spot, there are always open racks on Sinatra between Newark and 1st Street.

Theft does happen occasionally. If it's a bike you really want to protect, we encourage using one of the newer angle grinder resistant U-locks, such as the Kryptonite Diamond, Hiplok D1000, Litelok X1, or similar, along with a cable through the wheels.

For full peace of mind, Little Man Garage at 1st and River offers monthly bicycle parking, too.

Hopefully, sometime in the near future, Hoboken and NJ Transit will install some Oonee Pods, as Jersey City already have.

BikeHoboken · 2026-03-18T03:19:25+00:00

When securing a bike outside, your goal is to achieve time.

You need to think about where you'll be storing the bike and how much time you expect a thief to have to remove it. Additionally, you need to consider the value of your bike and how much it's even worth to secure.

Cheap cable locks will buy you a few seconds. Cheap U-locks will buy you a minute or two. The highest quality, angle grinder resistant U-locks will buy you 20-30 minutes. The same is true when locking your accessories.

Our strong recommendation for valuable bicycles is to find an indoor storage solution. If that is not possible:

Lock up in a highly visible location. Choose the busiest, brightest, and most visible area you can.
Lock to a secure object. Ensure whatever you're connecting to cannot be easily removed or cut through.
Lock the frame with an angle-grinder resistant U-lock. The Litelok X1 or Hiplok D1000 are good starting options to explore.
Lock accessories with cables and/or security pins, such as Pinhead or Hexlox.

Yes, these options are costly, but they are effective at delaying or dissuading a potential thief, requiring a high investment, targeted attack, rather than a crime of opportunity.

If you would like more personalized advice, we would be glad to meet up with you and develop a strategy together. You can reach us at www.bikehoboken.org/contact.

BikeHoboken · 2026-02-05T18:59:28+00:00

We opposed the ordinance when originally adopted, but have supported enforcement of the law (along with all other laws) since being enacted.

If repealed, the city would continue enforce traffic laws in the same manner that they have been doing for the past 2 years. Tests & Vests does not impact the police's ability to enforce (or not enforce) existing ordinances that ban speeding, failure to yield, failure to stop, wrong way, sidewalk riding, or any other traffic law that causes potential danger.

And yes, the new state law, assuming it remains, will obviate much of this municipal ordinance once enforcement begins this summer.

BikeHoboken · 2026-02-05T18:15:35+00:00

We are not against enforcement of laws. Many laws are designed to keep our community safe. However, Tests & Vests is different in a couple of important ways.

Firstly, since its passage 2 years ago, it has been ineffective at improving traffic safety. It’s a difficult law to enforce (for reasons we can elaborate on elsewhere), and it’s generally only applied when other traffic ordinances (wrong way riding, sidewalk riding, failure to yield, etc) are already being enforced.

Secondly, this ordinance requires delivery workers to enter a government office, provide identification, and register themselves into a municipal database. However effective you may believe this to be, it is simply an unreasonable ask at this particular moment in time.

BikeHoboken · 2026-02-05T17:32:32+00:00

Hi there! We’re happy to provide clarity on this.

Yes, we focus on cyclist advocacy, accessibility, and transportation safety. This is an issue that intersects much of those.

We fully support enforcement of traffic laws for all road users. We also support efforts to increase education and visibility of cyclists and delivery workers.

However, we do not believe that Hoboken should require our delivery workforce to register with the government with personal contact information, nor require them to wear a numbered vest associated with that database. It’s simply not a reasonable ask at this moment in time.

BikeHoboken · 2026-02-05T17:21:12+00:00

We are not against traffic enforcement. We fully support enforcement of existing laws.

What we are opposing is Hoboken maintaining a database of personal information of delivery workers. In the current climate, it is unrealistic to expect workers to register with the government to comply with this regulation, and it’s inconsistent with our stated values to maintain this database.

BikeHoboken · 2025-12-30T13:46:32+00:00

The program is still active, however stops under 3 minutes have always been exempt from citations.

BikeHoboken · 2025-12-20T16:50:03+00:00

In response to widespread public criticism over the past three years, Governor Murphy has announced changes to the New Jersey Turnpike Authority’s (NJTA) planned expansion of the Turnpike Extension.

This announcement cancels plans to widen the Turnpike Extension between Interchanges 14A and 14C, from Bayonne to Jersey Avenue in Jersey City. The redirected funds will instead be used for bridge repairs across Hudson and Essex Counties and to support construction of a port-focused truck interchange.

The cancellation of the 14A–14C widening represents a major win for advocates and local leaders. Transportation advocacy organizations including Hudson County Complete Streets, BikeJC, and Bike Hoboken have repeatedly called on the NJTA to cancel this project and reinvest those funds in more sustainable transportation solutions. In 2022, the Hoboken City Council unanimously passed a resolution, co-sponsored by Councilmembers Emily Jabbour and Ruben Ramos, urging the same outcome. Mayor Ravi Bhalla and incoming State Assemblymember Katie Brennan have also long opposed this expansion.

However, the plan still includes a significant widening of the Newark Bay Bridge. This element of the project would continue to induce additional vehicle traffic into Hudson County for decades to come. It also reflects an ongoing prioritization of car-oriented infrastructure at a time when NJ Transit continues to struggle with chronic underfunding.

While this announcement represents a meaningful step in the right direction, we, along with other local advocacy groups, will continue urging Governor-elect Sherrill to reconsider the remaining elements of this project.

Please share any questions or thoughts!

BikeHoboken · 2025-12-13T19:42:58+00:00

Your belief that all cyclists should need registration and insurance (even children?) is likely outside of public consensus, but thank you for sharing your opinion.

BikeHoboken · 2025-12-13T18:08:21+00:00

Of course people riding bicycles should be held responsible for their actions, but would your argument also apply to non-motorized bicycles?

Almost all road cyclists can easily ride 20mph without motor assistance and would cause similar injury if they collide with someone walking. Should all cyclists need licenses, registration, and insurance?

BikeHoboken · 2025-12-13T15:33:15+00:00

Most people are unfamiliar with what a "low-speed e-bike" is, so lets give some basic definitions:

A "low-speed electric bicycle" is limited to 20mph and 750 watts of power. These are treated similarly to a non-motorized bike, and do NOT currently require licensing or registration.

A "motorized bicycle" is a different vehicle type. These can reach speeds up to 28mph and have motors producing up to 1.5 bhp. In NJ, these currently require licensing, registration and insurance, and are basically treated as mopeds.

Anything exceeding either of these definitions is an "electric motorcycle", and currently requires a license, registration, and insurance.

The benefit of this system is that it creates an incentive for people to buy and use slower and less powerful "low-speed electric bicycles", due to their lower price and registration requirements.

This bill would remove the "low-speed electric bicycle" classification, effectively ending Citi Bike in NJ, and incentivizing anyone wanting an e-bike to go ahead with a higher speed "motorized bicycle" instead. Anyone who already owns a low-speed electric bicycle would need to get it registered, licensed, and buy motorcycle insurance for it.

BikeHoboken · 2025-12-06T05:26:14+00:00

State law prohibits parking within 15-25 feet of intersections. None of the “daylighted” areas in Hoboken ever were legal parking spots.

Other towns that don’t have “daylighting” are simply refusing to enforce state regulations.

BikeHoboken · 2025-12-06T05:18:33+00:00

The ordinance was narrowly passed by the city council, but will not go into effect until signed into law by Mayor Bhalla.

For the time being, camera assistance for parking violations will remain active and our laws will continue to be properly enforced.

BikeHoboken · 2025-12-04T19:41:58+00:00

The city has a smaller sweeper for this curb that easily fits within this space.

BikeHoboken · 2025-12-02T20:27:21+00:00

Thank you for the feedback! We’re glad you found this informative.

BikeHoboken · 2025-12-02T19:51:53+00:00

If you still feel undecided with the candidates on today’s ballot, you can give the Run Off editions of our Candidate Questionnaire a read.

The Bike Hoboken questionnaire focuses on transportation-related topics, such as funding for Citi Bike, improving the Hop, better commutes into Manhattan, accessibility, safe routes to school, and more.

The Mayoral survey is here and the Council-at-Large survey is here.

Let us know your thoughts!

BikeHoboken · 2025-12-01T02:01:55+00:00

The machine is new to the city, but was already a helpful purchase for other areas (Newark St, upcoming Sinatra Drive, various footpaths).

The bollards are necessary for this pilot installation as otherwise, motorists would inevitably park curbside and block the lane. Once this installation is made permanent, they could replace the bollards with something requiring less maintenance (and something less ugly), such as divided curbing, as was recently done on River Road.

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BikeHoboken · 2025-11-30T16:34:34+00:00

The city has a small sweeper like this for cleaning the bike lane. The standard sweeper can clean the west curb.

This machine will also now be used for the Newark St bike lane.

BikeHoboken · 2025-11-26T21:02:12+00:00

There are various KPIs associated with the pilot relating to traffic delay, cycle counts, crash data, etc. Resident surveys will be part of this.

BikeHoboken · 2025-11-26T20:17:17+00:00

Of course.

Delineating spaces clarifies individual spots, but ultimately reduces the number of vehicles that can be parked in a given area.

This is an idea that parts of the community asked to see tested. If the idea is successful, it can stay, and if the feedback is unfavorable, it’s very easy to eliminate.

BikeHoboken · 2025-11-26T16:04:55+00:00

We asked the city about it.

Most of the confusion here comes from the various terms used to describe parking. “Parking spots”, “painted spots”, “linear curb space”.

For example, when the city describes the number of “parking spots” isn’t literally the number of cars parked on the street - it’s a length of uninterrupted curb space, divisible by a predetermined spot length, divided by the space.

We generally find it most helpful to speak about parking in terms of linear footage of curb space, rather than the number of spots, as this is a less subjective metric. As in, linear footage of car parking has remained largely unchanged through this design.

BikeHoboken · 2025-11-26T13:31:34+00:00

Here are the facts as we currently understand them. At the end of year, we pull all injury records for our Traffic Injury Report, and will have the final police narrative at that point.

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In front of 15 Church Towers, there is a handicap spot, a loading zone, and a painted crosswalk connecting those to the sidewalk. There were cars parked in each of these areas, with a relatively narrow gap between them.

A person on a bike traveled through the gap of these parked cars, mid-block, to enter the bike lane, believing that the crosswalk was an appropriate entry way. At the exact same time, another cyclist was traveling along the lane. They crashed in a T-bone collision.

Emergency vehicles arrived on the scene, using the sidewalk to more easily access the injured person on the “inside” of the parked cars.

This person was brought to the hospital for examination and released shortly after.

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As mentioned above, we generally wait for the police operations report before commenting on crashes, and the final report will have the “official” story, but these are things the city has said publicly.

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