Closing Bell: Bike Slope
Seems like bike lanes are being added to Brooklyn every day. Last week, a few Slope streets got new ones, including Sackett and Lincoln.
Seems like bike lanes are being added to Brooklyn every day. Last week, a few Slope streets got new ones, including Sackett and Lincoln.
Last week, I almost got hit by a cyclist while I was crossing the street with the light, so I smacked him. Not very hard, but hard enough to get his attention. I’ve wanted to do this for a while and now that I’ve broken the ice, I think I’ll knock the next SOB off his bike.
Park Sloper,
Across the park, in PLG, cars park outside the bicycle lane, on relatively wide Lincoln Road and Maple Street, on alternate side days; I’ve also seen that on 3rd Street in PS, which is very wide. I don’t know if this is possible on narrow streets like Sackett/Berkeley and Lincoln Place. At least you don’t have alternate side parking FOUR times a week like we do.
Some of these lanes have been painted on very narrow streets (like Sackett/Berkeley, and Lincoln). How does this work on street cleaning days? If the side of the street without the lane is being cleaned, do cars park on both sides of the bike lane on the other side of the street?
And actually, how does this once-a-week street cleaning business work? I can’t imagine that only one side of the street gets cleaned, so how does the city get both sides of the street cleaned if there is alternate side of the street parking only once a week?
“The only reason bicycles have to ride on the sidewalk is that they feel unsafe riding in the streets.”
Thank YOU for some words of logic.
I don’t know who thinks that bikers would prefer to ride on uneven, cracked, lifted from tree root sidewalks instead of a flat road.
They do so, because they are taking their life into their hands by driving on streets without these bike lanes. And even some with them…
It’s a step in the right direction, but cops need to start ticketing cars for parking and driving in them. The only reason bicycles have to ride on the sidewalk is that they feel unsafe riding in the streets.
4:34, blah blah blah…
my guess is that your physique is too out of check to clothesline me anyhow.
4:34, Your right! Those damn kids and their bikes…how many times do I tell those whipper snappers to get of my freshly sprayed sidewalk and go ride in the street. Forget how bikes save the environment and keep less traffic on the streets. Those damn sidewalks need to be kept clean!
haha, funny you say that 5:17.
i’m not sure if you are joking or not, but i was thinking the same thing…
Bike lanes will increase property values…