New Bike Lanes on Smith and Hoyt
Good news for BoCoCa bikers, as this spring will bring extended bike lanes to and from the Manhattan and Brooklyn Bridges. Bicycle lanes on Smith and Hoyt street will be added, with the Smith street lane going from Bergen to 9th Street, and the Hoyt Street lane going from Bergen to 3rd Street. Nine parking…
Good news for BoCoCa bikers, as this spring will bring extended bike lanes to and from the Manhattan and Brooklyn Bridges. Bicycle lanes on Smith and Hoyt street will be added, with the Smith street lane going from Bergen to 9th Street, and the Hoyt Street lane going from Bergen to 3rd Street. Nine parking spots will be lost on Hoyt between Bergen and Wyckoff. Worth the trade?
Smith and Hoyt Streets Bicycle Lane Extensions [New York City DOT]
yes, worth it. give me a break, 9 spaces is nothing. Parking in general is such a gross waste of public space. It’s public real estate dedicated to personal property that isn’t in use. Cars are so funny really, we spend so much on them and 95+% of the time they just sit there, unused.
It’s fascinating how fired up drivers get over bike riding and bike lanes. don’t worry, your god-given right own and drive a personal killing machine won’t be taken away.
As a non-driver who’s been frequently riding bikes in Brooklyn for the past 40 years, I see little need for bike lanes. Even where they exist, it’s rare that I can go two blocks in one before I need to circle around a double-parked car or one standing in the bike lane. I do not anticipate that even in the bizarro world of the current transportation commissioner, that there will be a bike lane on EVERY city block, so I will have to ride down many streets with no demarcated bike lane and fend for myself.
On occasion, someone will drive me someplace — in a car, of all things! — and I really get PO’s when I am stuck behind a series of trucks, buses, and paratransit vehicles because the street, which formerly had four lanes of traffic, has been reduced to two to accommodate two bike lanes and or all kinds of medians, turning lanes, and other such foolishness. Even though I am an inveterate bike rider, streets also exist to move traffic along. Commerce is necessary for the city’s economy.
The only people who seem to be doing well by the vast expansion of bike lanes are the paint manufacturers.
I don’t think Minard was particularly out of line. Many of the daily comments are just as snarky. I detect little real snobbishness.
what’s the point of bike lanes? my experience is that bikers don’t use ’em.
Minard–you are a snob of the highest order, almost comically so…
That being said, this car owner says bring on the bike lanes. I agree that delineation of street space between cars and bikes is crucial to safety (I also bike from time to time).
Commuter bikers are people I just do not understand. Even on a sleety night they ride. There’s something in their personalities that prevents them from being able to just take public transportation like others do. It’s a threshold or boundary they just can’t bring themselves to cross.
BY THE WAY… did anyone actually *look* at the DOT proposal? Ya know, before jumping to all of your Negative Nancy conclusions? This was a snap decision. They studied the streets involved, monitored LEGAL double-parking by commercial vehicles, and tried to impose as little change as possible to the existing parking regs.
Pete — Hoyt would be the southern route from the bridge.
on blocks like the one where removing parking for bike lane – Possibly make worse. These are short blocks with traffic lights, stop signs and narrow – so cars don’t drive so fast like on long blocks where wider.
This could make Hoyt easier to drive faster…bad for both pedestrians and bicycles.
Bike lanes work okay as routes for commuting type purposes…don’t think this part of Hoyt really qualifies.
CG_ups, there is NO bike lane on Court Street. Period.