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.”
Ditto… that’s what I was getting at. There’s no point in licensing drivers in this town. The police don’t police cars. I would argue that there are MANY MANY drivers out there that are *far* more dangerous than a thug with a gun, but traffic enforcement doesn’t happen.
And YES goddammit… enforce it all. Ticket bikes and cars and friggin’ horses. It’s not mutually exclusive. Suggesting increased traffic enforcement ALSO MEAN bikes. But you better not start ticket bikes and continue to ignore cars!
Umm some SUVs are less cylinders and take up less space than sedans. Compare a Toyota Rav4 to a pretty much any Cadillac and get back to me.
“right from the right-hand lane”
its about time they banned that.
Let’s license pedestrians too while we are at it. Seriously WTF?
Cape Cod Creamery makes a flavor called “Provincetown Pistachio.” It’s one of the best ice creams I’ve ever had.
a limousine liberal anti-car cyclist?
DH — last time I checked it’s the law. Along with not exceeding the speed limit, not driving aggressively, not honking (without an emergency), turning right from the right-hand lane, stopping at stop lights/signs, and a few more. None of which are enforced.
The only laws I see enforced are parking. The one set of laws that has NO impact on safety (with the exception of double-parking… but that’s only enforced in select areas!)
I guess if people like 11227 are seen as the proponents of biking then it is understandable that some would have a negative reaction. It must be nice to be a limousine liberal who can demean the choices of working class New Yorkers while jetting off to Argentina and 29 other countries. You just can’t be taken seriously as an environmentalist when you travel that often, you just seem like, well, a wee bit of a hypocrite.
It’s my favorite. 🙂