Flushing Avenue Bike Lane Plans Revealed
The Department of Transportation presented its plans to remake Flushing Avenue as part of the ongoing master-planning of the 14-mile Brooklyn Greenway. Streetsblog, where this image first appeared, summed up the plan this way: The Flushing Avenue project would construct a two-way bike path from Williamsburg Street West to Navy Street, separated from traffic by…
The Department of Transportation presented its plans to remake Flushing Avenue as part of the ongoing master-planning of the 14-mile Brooklyn Greenway. Streetsblog, where this image first appeared, summed up the plan this way:
The Flushing Avenue project would construct a two-way bike path from Williamsburg Street West to Navy Street, separated from traffic by a nine-foot planted median. Vehicle traffic would travel in one westbound lane, between two lanes of parking. Only three curb cuts providing vehicle access to the Brooklyn Navy Yard would interrupt the bike path along the length of the project. Passengers on the B69 and B57 would disembark at bus bulbs constructed in the center median, with eastbound bus routes diverted to Park Avenue.
We’re still not used to those weird parking lanes over on Kent, but hopefully that planted median will make this one work better. There’s a planning workshop for the Greenway at Borough Hall on March 25th. You can also support the non-profit Greenway by attending the fundraiser tonight at ñ in Dumbo from 6 to 8 p.m.
Flushing to Get Two-Way Protected Bike Lane [Brooklyn Paper]
DOT Proposes Flushing Ave Bikeway [Streetsblog]
if you saw the prices of petrol in Europe you wouldn’t be surprised people are using bikes
let me just throw in the obligatory
“THIS ISN’T EUROPE – THIS IS AMERICA BITCHES!”
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Squaredrive is right — take Amsterdam (where the “weather is often bad”), there are about a dozen streets total with multiple lanes for cars. There is a great balance there. People use the *best* mode of transport, not defaulting to the car!
Asses become less wide with more bicycling!
Minard — “Meanwhile, when the weather is bad, and the weather is often bad in NYC, the bike lanes will be hardly used.” That’s simply not true. When weather is bad, there is a reduction in biking… yes. But it doesn’t disappear. It’s the same reduction you see in walking. Should we reduce sidewalks because “weather is often bad”??
“Bottom line to me is that cities, especially big successful cities, are all about traffic.”
I don’t understand, so you’re saying that big successful cities are all designed around accommodating cars?
If that’s what you’re saying, I strongly disagree. See amsterdam, barcelona, berlin, copenhagen for a few examples of cities which balance car, bike, pedestrian traffic extraordinarily well.
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Studies have shown time and again that more and wider roads lead to more traffic and congestion, not less.
the same thing with wider asses.
*rob*
That’s an odd comment. It’s exactly the opposite. Traffic is the death of cities. Studies have shown time and again that more and wider roads lead to more traffic and congestion, not less.
lol. it’s so funny when the city caters to moon-faced midwesterners who like to peddle around the city at .1 MPH in flip flops and f@ggy tote bags.
*rob*
I find this kind of silly. With the Boro gaining in population and becoming more crowded, main thoroughfares are being narrowed resulting in more traffic congestion not only for cars but also for ambulances, fire trucks, police trucks, buses. Meanwhile, when the weather is bad, and the weather is often bad in NYC, the bike lanes will be hardly used. I suppose the police or emergency vehicles may be able to use them in a pinch. Don’t know. Bottom line to me is that cities, especially big successful cities, are all about traffic. If you want wide open streets to ride your bike in peace go to a dying city like Detroit or Buffalo or Camden.