Behold the Prospect Park West Bike Lane!
Huge news, courtesy of a Park Slope tipster: The much-anticipated and hotly-debated Prospect Park West bike lane is upon us. Evidently the lines, shown here in this photo, were laid down just this morning. Photo by Joanna Oltman Smith
Huge news, courtesy of a Park Slope tipster: The much-anticipated and hotly-debated Prospect Park West bike lane is upon us. Evidently the lines, shown here in this photo, were laid down just this morning.
Photo by Joanna Oltman Smith
I though it was the Segway that was going to change the face of cities forever and usher in a new epoch.
Turns out it was the bike.
Someguy…So it appears some of your views are reasonable. So why rant and rave about yuppies and bikes and greemarkets and trust funds etc? (Since you didn’t deny that you are the troll of streetsblog, I’m assuming you are.)
Unless it’s too get others spun up and wasting their time commenting instead of working or whatever. Which is kind of why I’m here. 🙂
“Downhill on 11th or 13th Street, right onto 8th Avenue, and another right up Union Street should do the trick.”
No bike lanes any of those roads, which was the point.
“I am completely baffled by the idea that any bicyclist over the age of eight would have trouble sharing road space with other vehicles.”
Yeah, that’s really a tough one. I mean, it’s not like anyone’s been killed in an accident or anything.
Sparafucile…if you’re going to be a moron, at least be funny.
8th ave becomes extremely narrow towards Union. There is heavier car traffic there because of folks driving towards Grand Army and Eastern Parkway. The result is that cyclists have very little room to maneuver between traffic and parked cars. The danger of being doored also increases.
Remember also that because of the geography of the park, cyclists wanting to travel from the south center of the park (say, Windsor Terrace around Terrace Place or so) to the north center (Vanderbilt and prospect heights) must go all the way around to the west side or the east side. The new bike lane saves them from the added inconvenience of having to bike down to 8th ave, an additional avenue west of their intended direction.
In addition the new lane provides a safe way for novice cyclists to try biking in the park without having to complete the entire loop and its steep incline on the eastern side.
I love this! Now everyone can be safer on the road whether you are on a bicycle or in a car. I think the buffer is a great idea because no biker likes the thought of unexpectedly being hit by a car door. Changes like these are what make commuting in a big city enjoyable. But what’s even better is if I win the year of FREE commuting that I just entered at http://www.commuternation.com. It would be great if all of a sudden my commute changed to being very safe and totally free!
This is getting tiresome. Maybe you all would prefer I agree with you but I don’t. My gas guzzling tank? My whining? Hoping the bike lane causes me problems?
Who exactly is whining here? Maybe your still upset about something someone else did to you but none of my arguments are invalid.
My point about PPW (in case I wasn’t clear) is that when there is an opportunity to drive fast on any road about half of us will drive faster. Having less lanes does’t slow a driver down if there is no one in front of them. So we’re both only half right.
Statistically, bikers are still a small minority albeit a green one. Allowances for bike commuting should be made but I think the righteousness is starting to get to some people’s heads. It’s a big city and 400,000 cyclist out of 8,000,000 comuters is still a very small percentage.
For the record I am not a bike basher, I think the city should have places for bikes to lock up all over midtown, I think that you shouldn’t be allowed to drive to work in Manhattan by yourself or at all unless you can prove the need for it.
Even if there were the same amount of bike lanes and bike consideration that exists in Copenhagen, Portland and Amsterdam there would not be the same amount of cyclists due to the large area of the city and the weather.
What kinds of restrictions on cars would you like to see? No more cars at all? Are hybrids OK? Truck deliveries? I am curious to see where we would end up.
“dh, now your getting it 😉 ”
haha! if i’m gonna be accused of it, might as well do it!!
“And if it is illegal for a car to be in a bike lane, should it be the same for bikers in car lanes?”
It is. Bottom line is there isn’t enough enforcement of traffic regulations of both drivers and cyclists. It seems all traffic cops do is drive around and ticket UPS trucks.
“Oh, and don’t forget everyone on a bike runs red lights and rides on sidewalks.”
dh, now your getting it 😉