Closing Bell: Bike Shelter Full Up
Looks like this bicycle parking shelter at DeKalb and Flatbush, as snapped by a reader last Friday, is pretty popular. The shelter is one of several the DOT’s installed around the city this year.
Looks like this bicycle parking shelter at DeKalb and Flatbush, as snapped by a reader last Friday, is pretty popular. The shelter is one of several the DOT’s installed around the city this year.
An occasional car parked in your precious lane is no big deal. Keep railing on, and there will be more a backlash against us poor bikers than there is now.
And cycling the wrong way is not only the expeditious thing to do sometimes, it’s also safer for the cyclist. I’m certainly not going all the way down to 5th av from 6th so I get back to my house on Carroll because of the one-way.
In many bike friendly cities (mostly in Europe) there are one-ways signs for vehicles with “bikes excepted”.
These are great – we need more of *any* kind of bike rack. I have ground floor apartment on the corner of 5th Ave next to a busy restaurant; I had eight bikes chained to my fence one afternoon. It’s crazy – obviously, the need is there. Yet I can’t get a bike rack for my corner from the city, because I am not a city-owned building.
4:26 here. I was being funny. Think they are fine, but they need to be much larger to accommodate more bikes.
“Streets are meant to be shared.”
The ‘Street’ extends from property line to property line. It includes the sidewalk. Drivers have adapted to not driving on the sidewalk (for the most part)- I think they should be able to adapt to not riding in the bike lanes. Bike lanes should be considered more akin to the ‘sidewalk’ portion of the ‘street’ and not the automotive part of it.
Nice. But laughably small…
Why are those sidewalks “ok to ride on”?
Because you want to?
Some sidewalks are ok to ride on.
I ride on the sidewalks around the cirlce and Prospect Park Southwest.
“cyclists should not ride against the flow of traffic, also they should not ride on the side walk.”
Agreed and agreed.
cyclists should not ride against the flow of traffic,
also they should not ride on the side walk.