Adams Street Cleaning Up Its Act?
Since we’ve bitched and moaned about the illegal parking in the Adams Street bike lanes plenty in the past, we thought we should give a shout-out to the fact that there was not a single car in sight when we passed by at around 3 p.m. on Monday. Bravo! Firemen, Cops, Judges Still Parking Illegally…
Since we’ve bitched and moaned about the illegal parking in the Adams Street bike lanes plenty in the past, we thought we should give a shout-out to the fact that there was not a single car in sight when we passed by at around 3 p.m. on Monday. Bravo!
Firemen, Cops, Judges Still Parking Illegally Downtown [Brownstoner]
Checking In On the Adams Street Bike Lane [Brownstoner]
I abandoned Adams Street for biking years ago as have many cyclists. I now go out of my way to go to Clinton Street and then loop around to Tillary and go down the police-blocked road to take the staircase up to the Brooklyn Bridge. Even with walking the bike up the stairs and going down Clinton, it’s way safer and faster and the lights are well-timed on Clinton for cyclists. Clinton is also packed with bicycles all hours of the day with people doing the same thing as I.
To ride on Adams, you have to ride down the middle, which results is some jerk-off honking at you and trying to whiz around on the left while you try to avoid being doored by a cop car. Not worth the stress or potential loss of life.
DOT has no longer has enforcement duties. The Traffic Enforcement Agents use to work under DOT but they now work under the NYPD. Orders not to block the bike lanes were given so people not on OB now park illegally in other nearby locations. The Unions that have negotiated and received contractual agreements with the city that the parking be provided will be speaking up on the issue. If the city can’t keep their part of the bargain, they will be in breach or will have to put something else on the “menu” in exchange for losing the privelege. These perks were negotiated before that area became so dense with condo’s and hotels. Also at that time most of the union members lived in the city close enough to hop a train or bus to work so there was plenty of parking available for those who drove in from the suburbs AND before all of the parking facilities were sold for the building of hotels and condo’s.
It was also empty today southbound at 4 o’clock….someone must have an enforcement blitz on. There was a DOT tow truck circling the block..
That stretch of bikelane is a nightmare… maybe there aren’t many bikers because they (like myself) abandoned that route. I used to ride it all the time, but I got tired of being so pissed off.
(the only stretch that is consistently worse is south of times square, where the expanded plaza/seating area on b’way means there are pedestrians blindly walking into the lanes 24/7.)
Also, nary a biker in sight, apparently.
Sheer luck. Packed with a bus, two limos, and a stream of commercial vans this morning. That bike lane is a big joke, i ride along adams every morning to the bridge and it is rarely clear.