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]
Rob, you’re a damn computerer
hey no one even touched this yesterday in the other bike thread. i wonder why. by why dont “cyclists” lolz have to have licenses!? and pay for insurance? someone PLEASE address this. it would be GREAT for the city economically and if you really wanna turn the city into a bike city that badly, you should have to pay for the insurance AND get a license. it’s only fair!!!
*rob*
Why don’t I ever see people getting tickets for double parking on fking FLATBUSH AVE!! Who cares about 5th.
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I am one cyclist (not ‘biker’, thank you Rob, how would you like it if I called you by a pejorative name which I can think of?)
LOL! i love it. now “biker” is a “pejorative” term. lol. okay cyclist. sorry, youre a bike, youre on a bike.
*rob*
Take away all bike lanes – I’ll just ride in the middle of the street @ 10mph.
OK this bike crap is getting stupid.
BTW I agree with DIBS on this–I’m also with the business owners on this one. I’m adding that just to annoy the humorless and over-zealous southbrooklyn [who HATES emoticons] 🙂
I doubt that all the cars parked there belong to the business owners. As long as they feed the meter, why not. There’s no entitlement to a parking spot. If there is a cap on the total amount of time they are parking there then the meter maids are not doing their jobs.
I don’t think that a narrow commercial Street like 5th Avenue is a very good place for bike lanes. 6th Avenue, while less congested, is even narrower, but why not move the bike lanes to 4th Avenue? FWIW I used that street quite safely when I lived in the S. Slope and rode to work in lower Manhattan (and YES, they DID have plenty of cars and trucks on 4th Avenue back then–the cars were much bigger in the early 70s).