Closing Bell: Brooklyn Bike Maps
Bicyclists of Brooklyn rejoice! Or keep rejoicing, if you’ve already started. The site NYC Bike Maps has a colorful, searchable, well-annotated map of Brooklyn bike lanes, using Google’s mapping service. So get on your bikes and ride!
Bicyclists of Brooklyn rejoice! Or keep rejoicing, if you’ve already started. The site NYC Bike Maps has a colorful, searchable, well-annotated map of Brooklyn bike lanes, using Google’s mapping service. So get on your bikes and ride!
The problem with bike lanes (excepting the ones enclosed by barriers) is that little stencils of bicycles (and even green painted lanes!) on the asphalt fail to prevent big motorized vehicles driven by aggressive cretins from smushing live cyclists into road kill. However, the magical thinking behind these runic symbols is nothing if not poetic.
The 5-boro bike map that you can find in most bike stores is much better than this one, and also easier to use when you are actually biking, as opposed to looking at your computer.
Totally Tybur – the one on grand st in manhattan is like that.
Thanks aysataba. I’ll be sure to check it out. Thanks for the tip.
I don’t like bike lanes either, but not for this odd dramatic reasoning of ‘infantilization’ and so on… Rather, it’s because I think they’re a wee bit dangerous.
They “trap” you against the doors of parks cars.
One one had, the striping on the road makes cars slightly more aware that bikes exist… on the other hand, this means cars start to think that bikes are ONLY in the bike lane and don’t pay attention elsewhere…. but because of the doors and double-parked cars and so on, that just ain’t the case.
I support bike lanes, but they should be protected ones on the inside. Cars parks on the street… bike lane between cars and sidewalk.
It looks like lots of smaller bike lanes are omitted, for example the ones on Maple Street and Lincoln Road, in my neighborhood.
As someone with decades of riding experience in Brooklyn, I hate bike lanes. They infantilize cyclists by sending the message that bikes are toys that need to be segregated in their own little play area, rather than vehicles that can and should operate in the same right-of-way as other vehicles.
Also useful is http://www.ridethecity.com
It goes one step further with the maps will give you bicycle directions from one point to another throughout the city. You can choose “most direct” (least bike paths/lanes), “safe” (more bike lanes/paths but still), “safer” (as many bike lanes/paths as possible).