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
Totally Stupid, just ban cars from the park and make the park “2 lanes”.
Great! Now what about the rest of the streets that border Prospect Park. PPSW is begging for a bike lane.
It is about time that public space is equally divided among all modes of transport. I walk and bike as much as possible and I am more than willing to share the road; I just wish car drivers would do the same.
Car drivers do not have a divine right to forward progress; In fact most traffic laws are geared to slow down or stop traffic. Slow down and stop every once in a while. Be that guy who stops to let a family cross the street safely. If you think you can get anywhere faster in Brooklyn by speeding around you really are an idi*t.
Thanks Ditmas.
I was just in Berlin myself. 🙂
Although I had NO desire to live there. Liked it a lot, but definitely not a place I’d want to live.
Someguy — Did you miss that they studied the traffic volume of PPW? Oh, yeah, and did you miss that “jockeying for position” happened when it was 3 huge lanes too? The only difference was that it was at 50+ mph.
PS: A hearty welcome back to 11217!
If you want to see bike culture done right, go to Berlin.
I just got back and think I wanna move there.
Someguy…you’re that troll who shows up on streetsblog, aren’t you?
morralkan… I think many of us were waiting for this comment.
(1) The Park Drive is ONE-WAY. Only counter-clockwise. This is actually enforced for some retarded reason… even when the road is closed to traffic. I think it would be AWESOME if the road was closed to all cars and they made it a two-way ring road. But they’re not gonna do it.
(2) This project was as much for *TRAFFIC CALMING* as it was for a bike lane… This road is treated like the Indy 500… it’s truly crazy how fast cars drive down this road… maybe 60+ mph. I’ve never witnessed a traffic ticket. Take a lane away and traffic slows down. Mechanical intervention to mitigate the lack of ANY traffic enforcement.
(3) Because of the Indy 500 effect… biking down this road was frightening.
(4) Paint striping and some plastic bollards costs almost nothing. This is a seriously cheap DOT project with A LOT of benefits.
morralkan-Try riding from 12th and PPW to the GAP greenmarket. It’s almost impossible.
Bike traffic inside the park runs in one direction (counterclockwise). There can be 5 blocks between park exits. To get in and out you have to ride on a pedestrian pathway.