Thursday Links
U.S. May Back Refinance Plan for Mortgages [NY Times] From California, Advice for Next Time: Stay Inside [NY Times] PS 29 PTA Thief Says She Can’t Pay Rent [NY Post] Candidate Getting Cash From Accused Slumlord [NY Daily News] A ‘Survived the Quake’ Tattoo Exists [NY Daily News] As Irene Nears, NYC Begins Preparations [WSJ]…
U.S. May Back Refinance Plan for Mortgages [NY Times]
From California, Advice for Next Time: Stay Inside [NY Times]
PS 29 PTA Thief Says She Can’t Pay Rent [NY Post]
Candidate Getting Cash From Accused Slumlord [NY Daily News]
A ‘Survived the Quake’ Tattoo Exists [NY Daily News]
As Irene Nears, NYC Begins Preparations [WSJ]
Workers Rally at the Barclays Center [BK Paper]
Isa by Taavo Somer in Brooklyn [Arch Paper]
Ped-Bike Collision on Brooklyn Bridge [McBrooklyn]
Why would you remove bikes from the Brooklyn Bridge? Remove a lane of space-hogging car traffic instead. Or expand the pedestrian bridge.
To eliminate a mode of transport – a stream of commuters – is backwards.
I’ll tack an edict to the Guild Hall door. That work for you?
Cars can use the Manhattan Bridge instead, too. Pedestrians and tourists can use the Manhattan Bridge instead, too. In fact, it offers better pictures because you can see the Brooklyn Bridge from it.
What about the tourist bike rental business that just started up at the base of the Bridge? The amount of cyclists commuting and reclaiming street-space has increased and will continue to increase.
What you don’t want to acknowledge is that the Manhattan Bridge does not connect destinations the way the Brooklyn Bridge does. And it squeezes pedestrians and cyclists into, what?, 15 feet?, while private cars have six lanes (90 feet?).
Give the tourists the wooden walkway and separate out a bike lane on the south side of the asphalt.
Win win.