CB1 OKs Brooklyn Greenway Bike Path
Streetsblog reports that Community Board 1 voted on Tuesday night overwhelmingly in favor of adding a separate bike path to Kent Avenue as part of the Brooklyn Greenway initiative. The new bike path will result in the loss of 500 parking spaces on the thoroughfare; the Greenway Initiative worked to defuse controversy about those lost…
Streetsblog reports that Community Board 1 voted on Tuesday night overwhelmingly in favor of adding a separate bike path to Kent Avenue as part of the Brooklyn Greenway initiative. The new bike path will result in the loss of 500 parking spaces on the thoroughfare; the Greenway Initiative worked to defuse controversy about those lost spots by ID’ing side streets where on-site parking could be created. CB1 was the last community board that needed to vote on the Greenway, which is supposed to eventually run along the waterfront from Greenpoint to Red Hook. The Department of Transportation has secured $9 million in funding for the project and started working on some sections of it already, such as a stretch near the Navy Yard. Ride on!
Brooklyn CB1 Approves Bike Path in Place of Parking [Streetsblog]
Brooklyn Greenway Initiative [Official Site]
Image from Streetsblog.
Side streets do not want to become parking lots, either. I applaud the green bikeway, but shunting parking to quiet residential streets is just making a problem for other people.
This is the best news to come down the pike in recent memory!
Bikers obey the rules in NYC as much as pedestrains do. Have you not noticed?
Vehicle rules do not apply, the only rule is do not get hit by a car, and do not hit any pedestrains.
I’m looking forward to a bike path, because as per the rules above, it is sketchy riding around. I much prefer going over the bridges and up the West Side Highway bike path because you are out of the way of cars.
love it! this waterfront with the new parks is going to be wonderful.
Bikers have to obey the rules of the road. The cars have no choice but to stop, bikers forget that they must also stop at red lights to allow pedestrians to cross.
Finally! This is great news.
i’ll hazard a guess that the “slow day” moron is the same person as the “faded type” moron.
Gotta say, that would be great. It might even make it worth going to Williamsburg….
Oh, this will be awesome. I ride that stretch of Kent a lot and it’s polite to call it inhospitable. This will pretty much be my new bike route to central and south Brooklyn.