NYPD Cracking Down on Brooklyn Bikers
The Brooklyn Paper reports that the NYPD will begin a borough-wide bike crackdown in a few weeks. More moving violations will be issued for the the failure to obey traffic signs and signals, surpassing the speed limit, tailgating, and failure to signal before turning. While the numbers of bicyclists is growing and the bike lanes…
The Brooklyn Paper reports that the NYPD will begin a borough-wide bike crackdown in a few weeks. More moving violations will be issued for the the failure to obey traffic signs and signals, surpassing the speed limit, tailgating, and failure to signal before turning. While the numbers of bicyclists is growing and the bike lanes on Prospect Park West have caused controversy, cops claim the reason for the crackdown is because bike accidents have been up. Some bikers aren’t convinced. Rider Lacy Tauber think cops should “focus on drivers,” while bike advocate Baruch Herzfeld thinks this could further strain the relationship between bikers and cops.
Bikelash! Cops to Crack Down on 2-Wheelers [Brooklyn Paper]
True, M4L. Thank you. Also odd and probably connected to blizzard criticism that this “crackdown” is coming in January, which is pretty absurd. People DO need cars in NYC – if you need to travel to greater Metropolitan New York, own a building and need to get supplies, have family or jobs in places not on the subway or bus system. I can visit family in Staten Island by PT, it only takes 2 and 1/2 hours IF I time the ferry right. I can get to Florida faster sometimes. I NEED to drive and I never saw such a state of dangerous chaos that I saw this spring and summer with the rollout of this bikeNYC/ plan. I think Khan needs a new job. I hope Bloomberg finds her one.
fsrg and bxgrl, true…you make good points.
(Did I really just group fsrg and bxgrl together?)
midwood, flatbush, borough park, crown heights north – one needed a tank to get through many of the streets in those hoods. many streets looked so shitty that it was a super easy read that the AWD would be useless
Happy New Year to you too, Snark!
I’ve lived in NYC for almost 14 years without a car and have two kids who have been with me for a large percentage of that time. We have rented a car on very rare occasions. I don’t remember one time in all those years where I believed not having a car was an issue. It’s not something I think about.
Benson, I acknowledged certain people who absolutely have to rely on their car for work were the only ones who had any right to complain. I just happen to not believe those were the only people expressing outrage over the slow response to the storm.
omg- the world is coming to an end- I’ve agreed with benson several times today, and now fsrg. I need a drink 🙂
biff- I don’t think it was mostly from car owners. I couldn’t even get to a subway it was so bad. Not that they were running…. but most of Brooklyn, the Bronx, Queens and Staten Is. especially do not have the mass transit that Manhattan does. And those areas served by buses? Even worse for them.
ticket them all. wreckless is wreckless. be it drivers or cyclists. the city can use the ticket rev plus it minimizes my odds of popping the next salmon cyclists with a shitty mouth – ie HELLO!!! I dont have to yield to you going the wrong way as I see I’m cleared to go at that stop sign
“everyone always says “i almost got hit” – anyone actually get hit?”
I have too but they weren’t going fast and until I just read that, I had forgotten about it.
Biff-“but I’m guessing most people crying about the slow response were doing so out of having to be inconvenienced by the loss of their car for 48 hours or so more than anything.”
or the fact that the buses weren’t running nor the subways, nor could anyone conduct any business, personal or otherwise. I am more than willing to call people babies due to their self-centered requirements but the city was totally paralyzed for almost 5 business days, due to an event that was predicted, relatively ordinary, budgeted for and supposedly planned for.
Peoples outrage in this case seems justified.