CB6 Drafts Bike Lane PPW Resolution
Following last week’s public hearing, last night the CB6 Transportation Committee presented the first draft of a resolution concerning the Prospect Park West bike lane and “related issues.” Included in the draft: “CB6 is not a party and takes no position with respect to [the PPW lawsuit], but further acknowledges that DOT, in its discretion,…
Following last week’s public hearing, last night the CB6 Transportation Committee presented the first draft of a resolution concerning the Prospect Park West bike lane and “related issues.” Included in the draft: “CB6 is not a party and takes no position with respect to [the PPW lawsuit], but further acknowledges that DOT, in its discretion, may deem it prudent to defer modifications… until that legal proceeding is continued.” The modifications recommended included raising and widening the pedestrian safety islands with an “appropriate design for public review,” restoring parking spaces, installing rumble strips near pedestrian crossings, and the continued study of the safety and flow of traffic. The entrances at Garfield Place, 3rd, 11th, 9th and 5th Street (into Litchfield Villa) were asked to be reconfigured. Also, during rush hour, DOT was asked to “further traffic signal adjustments and attention to unloading/loading ‘hot spots.'” Some in the audience stressed that DOT needs to look closely at the relationship with bikers and pedestrians, rather than bikers and motorists. The draft will be considered by the full board on Wednesday, April 13th.
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morralkan’s straw-man arguments are tiresome. Sure, some fraction of the traffic is irreplaceable using other modes. But it’s a very, very small fraction: maybe 10%. The other 90% is people who are too selfish or too lazy to get around by more efficient means. Those are the people who cause problems for everyone else, without good reason.
Morralkan — you simply don’t understand the *most basic* aspects of roadway engineering. For example, your statements boil down to “Bigger and more roads improves traffic.”
This has been repeatedly been proven WRONG by contemporary engineering and planning science.
There are so many other things you say that are wrong, but that’s enough.
Well, zinka, once a month chemo is not as debilitating as having chemo 4 or 5 times a week. I mentioned other needs for driving a car. So ww’re not talking .0001% here — and bikers, especially in the winter, are a rather small percentage, once one discounts delivery guys. I do hope you never get old.
As for you, dirty_hipster, your name says it all. You probably do need a douche, industrial strength. As I said earlier, perhaps about you, you probably belong to the generation whose parents told them that the world revolved around them and that everyone is special, in his own way.
I have been to Paris, cmu, though not in about 5 years. Maybe they have introduced more bikes, but I do hear that they discontinued the rent-a-bike program because basically all the bikes were stolen. From my experience with the French, they are about as independent as NYers, though, and are not ones to follow rules. Why is it low to bring cancer patients, or older people who do need cars to get around, to shop, and to visit into the mix. Perhaps you would like them to stay indoors in their apartments.
Like it or not, cities do involve cars and not everyone can get by using public transportation (and we do have a good system) and bikes. Unless you are suggesting that all goods will be airlifted to homes, businesses, and stores, we do need roads to actually move traffic around efficiently. “Calmed” traffic contributes to pollution; idling vehicles actually put out more exhaust per mile traveled and greatly increase the cost of doing business and prices at the store.
morraikan — you are SERIOUSLY justifying policies that exalt cars over all other modes of transportation by arguing that some cars are going to chemo appointments?
That’s, what, 0.0001% of drivers? Yes, clearly enough to base our transportation policies around.
And, for the record, my mother-in-law is currently getting chemo treatment once a month, and you know how she gets there? She rides the fucking subway and then takes the bus.
morrelkan, that’s idiotic to suggest that traffic calming somehow impedes a cancer patient’s curative drive. And it’s pretty low of you to even bring that into the mix. Other than emergency vehicles, there’s NO reason for anyone to speed in residential areas, and if they have to slow down or (gasp) stop for a double-parked vehicle, so be it.
Btw, world-class cities..ever been to Paris for example? Ever had your taxi stop & turn off the engine and wait for a delivery person for over 5!! minutes? Happens.
sorry – i’m sure you’re not really a douche.
no more bike lane arguments for me today. have a goood weekend!
“I suppose you’ve never had anyone in your family with cancer.”
why would you say that?
the last thing that pops into my head when i see the PPW bike lane is “OMG this won’t let my (insert family member) get to their CHEMO treatment.
get real – you’re a douche
not really sure how cars being on the road for “necessary” purposes entitles them to speed on residential streets, not share the road with bicycles and be all around assholes.
I suppose you’ve never had anyone in your family with cancer. I have. But I forgot; the world revolves around YOU, dirty_hipster.