Closing Bell: The Brooklyn Bridge on Two Wheels
This video nicely captures a ride on the Brooklyn Bridge, though it doesn’t really document the tension that often exists between cyclists and pedestrians.
This video nicely captures a ride on the Brooklyn Bridge, though it doesn’t really document the tension that often exists between cyclists and pedestrians.
Biff, I thot that was your thing?
9:05, “I’m a 200+ pound wall of meat, and I’ll hurt you just as bad as you hurt me in a colision. Plus, I’ll sue.”
What an attractive image: a fat, angry, litigious wall of meat.
The Brooklyn Bridge pathway has become too big of a tourist and walking destination that either bikes need to be banned or walked over the bridge.
There is no way all those walkers can stay in pedestrian lane.
PS – I see plenty of bikers on the pedestrian only path on Manhattan bridge which is usually no big deal except when they insist on speeding thru.
It’s not just the Brooklyn Bridge, Bikers in NYC are infamous for running red lights, riding on sidewalks, gunning it through crosswalks, going the wrong way on one way streets, etc. And then they get all santomonious about the Brooklyn Bridge lanes? Give me a f’n break. I’m a 200+ pound wall of meat, and I’ll hurt you just as bad as you hurt me in a colision. Plus, I’ll sue. Wanna go?
Bikers get half the space and are, what, roughly 5-10% of the volume? The speed, the obnoxious yelling. At some point the city will get sued after a collision and that’ll be the end of the bike lane.
Jaqui, the ped path on the MB is open all the time and I use it all the time. It’s the south walkway. The bike lane is the north walkway. Sometimes during repairs one or the other has been closed but right now they are both open, and, as many local cyclists report, are the less crowded option.
6:50 – What kind of beaureaucratic crap is this?
It’s the rules.
It says among other things that:
You can’t run someone over for being an asshole.
Furthermore it says you can’t get away with shit just because you’re an asshole.
Everyone who posts here knows that assholes come in all shapes and sizes.
Hal – I just read through that document, and I have to say it didn’t help much in terms of bridges. I did find out, though, that you can ride a bike on the sidewalk if the tire is smaller than 26 inches, and you’re a pre-teen… hmmmm – much scheming to do.
Hal, what kind of beaucratic crap is this?