Bike Lane Wars Abound
The Brooklyn Paper is chock full of stories about bike lane conflict today. First up is more drama surrounding the new lanes on Prospect Park West. As you may recall, DOT’s decision to axe one lane of car traffic to make way for a two-way bike lane was done despite opposition by Marty Markowitz and…
The Brooklyn Paper is chock full of stories about bike lane conflict today. First up is more drama surrounding the new lanes on Prospect Park West. As you may recall, DOT’s decision to axe one lane of car traffic to make way for a two-way bike lane was done despite opposition by Marty Markowitz and many others in the driver camp. Now, it turns out, some pedestrians who are used to only having to look one way before crossing are up in arms. Meanwhile, down in Bay Ridge, Community Board 10 voted earlier this week against two new proposed bike lanes. “The city is bent on taking away driving lanes for cars,” said Allen Bortnick, a member of Community Board 10. “We are not going to be able to live with this comfortably.”
ty, good point. Fine, say a Nissan Pathfinder or Xterra.
I don’t even want to mention what I drive lol. I will have organic backyard grown tomatoes thrown at me by Brownstone Brooklyn.
I agree that there should be more law enforcement (on bikes too if necessary) but I am also fairly certain that the understaffed and overwhelmed NYPD have more important crimes to solve. Are New Yorkers capable of self regulation? Why do the police need to ticket people to make them respect the rules of the road? Litter? Don’t even get me started. And if you really want to start a discussion with me, then explain why rich people don’t have to clean up their horse’s shit when they are galloping around Prospect Park? Park Circle on the weekends is just full of horse shit.
I’m suggesting that “limousine” needs replacing in this context. You know, it being a car and everything.
Jaguar, you’ve taken most of what he has said completely out of context.
Yeah… but a Toyota Rav4 is pretty gay.
I’m all for enforcing the current rules on cars tybur, especially speeding and light-jumping. And enforce the littering and dog poop rules too.
Ditto… from what i can tell, that’s already banned.
I know, it sounds ridiculous right? I cycle because I am against cars and the people who drive should all ride bikes but I’m going to jet off to my second home in Argentina where all of the people are skinny but that’s all good because I’m privileged so can make these kinds of choices and decisions and oh, the people are skinny there but they eat beef!
“Let’s license pedestrians too while we are at it. Seriously WTF?”
great Reductio ad absurdum, because people are vehicles right.