Streetsblog: The DOT Doesn't Know How to Market Bike Lanes
Both Kingston and Brooklyn avenues are optimal thruways for bike lane implementation. They meet up with east-west bike lanes at multiple junctions and are in an area with a significant number of riders who commute to work via bike. So why have the DOT’s proposals for bike lanes on the stretch been rejected by three separate community…
Both Kingston and Brooklyn avenues are optimal thruways for bike lane implementation. They meet up with east-west bike lanes at multiple junctions and are in an area with a significant number of riders who commute to work via bike. So why have the DOT’s proposals for bike lanes on the stretch been rejected by three separate community boards?
Streetsblog has drawn the conclusion that the DOT is bad at communicating with community boards — and also that community boards are often nearsightedly hostile towards street safety projects.
According to Streetsblog, the DOT’s first mistake in proposing bike lanes for the mile-and-a-half stretch was offering three different designs to CB3 (Bed Stuy), CB8 (Crown Heights), and CB9 (south of Eastern Parkway). A cohesive proposal made to each board individually would have likely garnered a more positive result.
DOT’s Fear of Community Boards Leads to Bike Lane Gaps in Brooklyn [Streetsblog]
Top image by DOT; last by Google Maps
Above, Kingston Avenue and Pacific, looking toward Atlantic, site of one of the proposed bike lanes
A Bike lane on Kingston Ave on the blocks from Empire to St Johns would be nightmare; neither pedestrians or auto drivers look where they are going there.
A Bike lane on Kingston Ave on the blocks from Empire to St Johns would be nightmare; neither pedestrians or auto drivers look where they are going there.
Is the issue DOT’s communication with CB’s or are the CB’s the ones at fault here?
From the article:
CB 3 is often hostile to street safety projects, including Slow Zones and curb extensions, and in June the board voted against the sharrows, with 16 against and 11 in favor, according to DNAinfo.
Is the issue DOT’s communication with CB’s or are the CB’s the ones at fault here?
From the article:
CB 3 is often hostile to street safety projects, including Slow Zones and curb extensions, and in June the board voted against the sharrows, with 16 against and 11 in favor, according to DNAinfo.
I agree completely. Something is wrong with DOT’s communication to CB’s in general. Not just bike paths but with almost every improvement they propose. I don’t understand why they don’t recognize this and fix it.
I agree completely. Something is wrong with DOT’s communication to CB’s in general. Not just bike paths but with almost every improvement they propose. I don’t understand why they don’t recognize this and fix it.
i agree. i do think CBs should be able to make requests to DOT about problems they’ve observed (crosswalks, etc) but this is a flow-thru issue, which affects more than just a single CB
i agree. i do think CBs should be able to make requests to DOT about problems they’ve observed (crosswalks, etc) but this is a flow-thru issue, which affects more than just a single CB
“thrust upon” it? yeah, some extra lines painted on the asphalt; what a nuisance!! unless of course you’re referring to the myriad of car-driving idiots who take bike lanes as extra license to double park comfortably–then i understand.