Wednesday Links
In the Future, the City’s Streets Are to Behave [NY Times] School Budgets to Be Cut by 5 Percent Next Year [NY Times] Midtown Cyclists Routinely Break Law, Study Finds [NYT/City Room] Mister Softee Driving McCarren Residents Mad [NY Post] Pooper Scooper Fines Rise in Parks [NY Daily News] Park Slope Record Store Gets the…
In the Future, the City’s Streets Are to Behave [NY Times]
School Budgets to Be Cut by 5 Percent Next Year [NY Times]
Midtown Cyclists Routinely Break Law, Study Finds [NYT/City Room]
Mister Softee Driving McCarren Residents Mad [NY Post]
Pooper Scooper Fines Rise in Parks [NY Daily News]
Park Slope Record Store Gets the Boot [Brooklyn Paper]
360 Furman Conversion Finally Completed [Brooklyn Eagle]
Will Yards Face Eternal Delays? [Brooklyn Eagle]
Photo by Lauren Michaellozano
Rob, when a biker swerves to avoid a J-walker, swerving or falling into a car, how can you say that? I have seen this with my own eyes. The biker was mid-block and the pedestrian was breaking the law, who was at fault and who was the danger to whom? The biker went to the hospital with broken a vertebrae and femur.
As a biker who does stop at lights and obeys laws, I have had several accidents avoiding pedestrians J-walking or popping out behind cars. This behavior contributes to the animosity between the two groups. Any crack down on bikers should be followed by enforcement of pedestrian laws.
no they are not. that is pure BS.
*rob*
Anti-biking curmudgeons – When do you draw the line on pedestrians breaking the law? They are just as much a danger to bikers as the other way around.
etson, a fair point, but there are other very large cities, I’m thinking of China in particular, where a huge part of the population rides bikes. I don’t think there’s the same kind of backlash there against cyclists.
On a lighter note, check out this list of the 11 Most Bike Friendly Cities, specifically the video of the bicycle lift in Norway!
http://tinyurl.com/276ack
gross. if i wanted to live euro style id move to european. cant stand the eurofication of nyc! also bike riders in the street should have 1.) a license and 2.) pay accident insurance. how are they ANY different than a car or a motorcycle when it comes to damage they cause?!
*rob*
benson, it may be that your wife knows something you don’t. After all, that’s why you married her, right?
A well-recorded (on analog), well-mastered piece of music stamped on vinyl played thru a decent turntable/arm/cartridge combo, and an otherwise decent audio system, will sound better than a similar piece recorded on a CD. You can check it out in any high-end audio store.
I completely agree with everything brownstoner said at 9:37. I’ll spare everyone my oft-repeated rants about how this city compares so unfavourably to other large cities in terms of being bike friendly. I’m not excusing the bad behaviour of some cyclists (nor am I consider all drivers to be drunken murderers when a pedestrian gets hit by a drunk driver) but lets not paint all cyclists as law breaking terrorists on two wheels.
Biking is not an option for lots of people for lots of reasons (not me – I could do it, I just hate it!). Broadway (Manhattan) is a real mess right now as they add huge medians and make bike lanes.
The allegedly idyllic European cities often cited by advocates are just smaller places than NYC – apples and oranges comparison.