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]
the bike lanes were shoveled because there weren’t cars abandoned in them.. DUH BENSON
Biff;
Your post is politically tone-deaf, and the reason there is a backlash. For better or worse, there is a large group of people in this city who do depend upon their cars. A Con Ed worker who lives in East Flatbush and works in their yard on 3rd Street has no easy way to get to work by subway. Moreover, in some areas, the streets were not made usable for almost 6 days.
PS: Happy New Year, Biff!
> One can easily survive in NYC without a car.
Absolutely. It’s one of the best things about this city. I have never owned a car in all my years here, and have no intention of getting one as long as I remain here.
Now that we’ve got so many bike lanes in Brooklyn, it’s time to start prohibiting ALL bicyclists on certain thru streets. Let’s start with Adams St. between Atlantic Av. and the Brooklyn Bridge, and Flatbush Ave. from Empire Blvd. to the Manhattan Bridge.
If the DOT can spend all that money building bike lanes, they can pitch in a few bucks for signs that say “Bikes Prohibited” on streets that are obviously meant for car traffic, and VERY dangerous for mixed bike/car use.
Scrap the “emergency” part of my post. One can easily survive in NYC without a car. I understand the issue of people who needed emergency assistance not getting it due to the ambulances not being able to get around, 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.
Unless one absolutely needs one’s car for work or has an emergency, there was no reason for anyone to get that worked up over the loss of their car for a day or two.
“I wondered about the timing too.”
Again I postulate that it has something to do with the blizzard response. In the outer sections of our borough, folks are FUMING about the city’s response, and the reading reports that bike lanes in Manhattan were hand-shoveled clean the next day.
This may be Bloomberg’s way of showing that he’s not beholden to his DOT commissioner and the bike lobby.
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