CB6, Fifth Avenue BID Going After Bike Lane
The Fifth Avenue BID wants to do away with the bike lane that runs from Carroll Street to 24th Street, and Community Board 6 is listening, reports Streets Blog. The BID argues that the bike lane makes it too difficult for trucks to make deliveries to the many businesses that line the avenue and that…
The Fifth Avenue BID wants to do away with the bike lane that runs from Carroll Street to 24th Street, and Community Board 6 is listening, reports Streets Blog. The BID argues that the bike lane makes it too difficult for trucks to make deliveries to the many businesses that line the avenue and that more tickets are getting issued as a result. CB6 District Manager Craig Hammerman has suggested a compromise—downgrading from a full-fledged bike lane to sharrows, lighter-weight markings. “The proposed scenario wouldn’t do anything to help delivery drivers find curbside spots,” writes the blog, “but it would force cyclists to kiss their dedicated space goodbye.” Streets Blog thinks the answer lies in a fledgling program that’s been experimented with along Fifth Avenue that makes metered parking more expensive at peak times.
Fifth Ave BID, CB6 Take Aim at Park Slope Bike Lane [Streets Blog]
> I think we should follow the precedent set by the incredibly successful Fulton Mall
I agree. And I am not being facetious.
I think we should follow the precedent set by the incredibly succesful Fulton Mall, and create charming, practical, and upscale pedestrian malls on all of Brooklyn’s shopping streets.
(PS: for some readers lacking a sense of humor, the above is meant ironically and perhaps a tad facetiously)
thank you
If its zoned commercial, a business owner should be able to assume that he can get deliveries. You don’t put the bike lane in later and then change all the rules on them. Except for Manhattan, the parking laws allow for double parking for delivery. Then they throw in the bike lane which has different rules. Assinine.
“I’m sorry that some delivery-people are inconvenienced by this. There are solutions for this problem. For instance, a dedicated loading/unloading zone on every commercial block is a good idea.”
Absurdly impractical.
“It disincentivizes private car use, which is clearly desirable”
If you take the cars out of Brooklyn, property values will go SPLAT.
There was one intelligent suggestion up top about making parking illegal except for deliveries during business hours on 5th avenue. What’s wrong with that plan? It disincentivizes private car use, which is clearly desirable and provides an orderly place for delivery trucks to park. I find the notion that we will get rid of a bike lane FOR THE PURPOSE OF ALLOWING DELIVERY TRUCKS TO DOUBLE PARK to be insane.
I really do think that riding a bicycle can effect the brain. I think it is a combination of the endorphins and the tight helmets.
Without cars and trucks how would merchandise, including food and clothing and building material and bicycles get shipped into the city? Is that an entitlement? sometimes people have to haul around more stuff than just a pair of tight latex shorts and a water bottle.
rob – is that becuase you live in the latter?
“So I’m kind of wondering how the bike lane impacts deliveries while the wall of parked cars doens’t?”
Bingo. I am so tired of the entitlement from car drivers, and I have a car in the city myself.
Pedestrians get run over and killed every day, bikers get killed every week, and drivers whine that traffic is bad, people get in their way, and it’s hard to find parking.
Bike lanes are important because they create a place on the street for bikes. This makes it less likely that people riding bikes will get hurt or killed in a collision with a car or truck. It also makes it more likely that people will ride bikes, which puts less wear and tear on the streets, less demand on public transit, less pollution, and a healthier population.
I’m sorry that some delivery-people are inconvenienced by this. There are solutions for this problem. For instance, a dedicated loading/unloading zone on every commercial block is a good idea. Unfortunately, many of these business owners can’t reconcile their personal desire for free parking at work with the consequences of this free parking in a neighborhood whose density makes their store profitable.
They want to blame it on the bikers. But, uh, “slightly lower tickets for double parking” is not a good strategy for making things better.
is that from the alanis morrissette department of irony sam?
*rob*