Lime Green Bike Lanes: Garish or Gorgeous?
The Department of Transportation is testing colors that would make bike lanes more visible to motorists, and they started with a strip of green in Brooklyn Heights — on Henry Street between Clark and Montague. Folks are already debating this color choice on StreetsBlog, where some are calling it “Gorgeous!” and others are calling it…
The Department of Transportation is testing colors that would make bike lanes more visible to motorists, and they started with a strip of green in Brooklyn Heights — on Henry Street between Clark and Montague. Folks are already debating this color choice on StreetsBlog, where some are calling it “Gorgeous!” and others are calling it “insane lime-neon green.” We’re all for bike safety, but we think that a more muted color could still stand out against the pavement — and might be more appropriate for brownstone-lined blocks. Can somebody call Benjamin Moore and let him know that there’s a demand for street paint in the soft tones of his Historical Colors collection? —KZ
High-Visibility Bike Lanes in Brooklyn [StreetsBlog]
Colorful Lane Could Keep Bikers Safer [Brooklyn Daily Eagle]
Photo by McBrooklyn
I’d love to see the stats for how many pedestrians are killed by bikes versus the number killed by cars. Can’t imagine it’s very close.
Sure bikes can hurt people, but any accident on a bike is more likely to hurt the biker than anyone else. A pretty big disincentive it seems.
I hate people on cars who try to steer clear of the bicycle doors opening and then the baby seats in the bicycle get in the way of my SUV and it ends up in Gowanus where the houses costs more than 1 million dollars and it smells like Paris in the earyl spring and we all send our kids to PS 321 because it is the only school in the whole city worth sending our little ones to.
I’m going to paint my brownstone and the front of my side walk that color and see how many bike riders i can catch. You know… like fly paper.
If we really want to be more like Europen cities, we should know that they want to be more like us. See Stoner’s Berlin postings as a case in point.
This is true in Europe from Dublin to Zagreb, Moscow to Lisbon.
Europeans love American free enterprise, Americans’ dislike of authority. But a certain sector here wants us to be more stiffled, more conformist, more classist, like LONDON (ahhh) or Paris (oohhh) or Copenhagen (blissss)
Phooey!
biker: Yes, cars KILL people, but bikes still HIT people. Bikes hitting people can still put people in the hospital. Bikes violating traffic laws and hitting people and then riding off anonymously is still a crime. To say that bikes shouldn’t be ticketed because they cause less injury when striking pedestrians is asinine.
With any luck, more apparent bike lanes will encourage more people to ride bikes. I can’t tell you how many times I’ve heard someone say “I’d love to be able to ride my bike to work, but I’m afraid of all the traffic.”
All I’m saying is that everyone bends the rules. Let the cyclists bend them too. It makes the city a better place. There are too many people who still meander around this city with a car driver mindset. This city is scaled to be cycled, not driven. It will be a better place with more cyclists.
Also, the Brooklyn Bridge is in part a commuter path for bicycles. People need to learn to respect it. I understand there are tourists, but blatant disregard for the bicycles there is dangerous and irresponsible. More explicit signage would help.
If you’re complaining about the majority of bike riders in the city you clearly have never ridden one here. Get off your chubby butt and try it. It makes the world better.
Are you telling me that you do not see (if you don’t do it yourself) pedestrians everyday cross the street when the light is red. Are you telling me that you have never been in a car that had to slow down to avoid hitting a jaywalker? Please! You are laughable and an embarrassment to New York City. You should have your citizenship revoked and be sent to pasture.
12:12 – I still (as will many others on this board who have complained about cyclists) you are in the minority with that pov.