PPW Bike Lanes Still Controversial
Surprise! The Prospect Park bike lanes are still stirring up controversy. Today the Brooklyn Paper reports that this PPW Bike Lane Survey started by Council members Steve Levin and Brad Lander got 800 responses on its first day. While the city has been analyzing traffic speed and accidents after the lane was put in, it…
Surprise! The Prospect Park bike lanes are still stirring up controversy. Today the Brooklyn Paper reports that this PPW Bike Lane Survey started by Council members Steve Levin and Brad Lander got 800 responses on its first day. While the city has been analyzing traffic speed and accidents after the lane was put in, it wants community feedback before deciding whether or not to make the bike lane permanent. Questions deal with safety and design modifications. (One question asks if the bike lanes should be more compatible with the historic character of PPW.) In the meantime, rival bike lane protests are planned for this Thursday morning – supporters will be at GAP with protesters at PPW and Carroll Street. Uh oh!
Survey Says PPW Bike Lane Still Very Controversial [BK Paper]
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DH is a mad jokester so I am not buying his bit at all
at least my rants are real!
I love mother earth – i recycle bitches and buy outrageously expensive cleaning products made with old diapers or whatever and I go to the farmers market where I spend my money on ridicuously priced locally grown produce
>you have to admit that cyclists are jerks just as much as jerk drivers
Yes. I do. I think anyone who wears spandex and speeds around is as stupid and entitled as bad car drivers.
What we need are a lot more cyclists who’re just puttering along slowly doing their chores, or just going from A to B, not people who’re fitness freaks and/or moving ads for whatever-it-is. Cycling should be a way of travel, not a statement
Gemini and Dirty Hipster – Why do you hate Mother Earth? Why? Why do you? You are making her sad.
my favorite are the “salmon” – the assholes who ride out of the bike lane, up the wrong way in the car lane – so to cross a street with a two way bike lane you have to look both ways twice! insane!
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am concerned that you are more concerned about your own fitness than the safety of others around you.
I also love the implication that people who drive are less fit – sorry but I go to the gym 4 days a week and walk over the friggin place up and down subway stairs etc etc
I fully support asking cyclists to register their bikes, not a 6th grader who is riding his dirt bike around the nabe – but someone like you who rides the same route every day and commutes to work. and you are right – it might be tough to get employers to pay for the registration of their employee bike riders -but again, who would have thought the city would have had all these bike lanes?? people asked for them and got them – well I am now starting up a new way for the state and city to make money and enforce all cyclists to register their bikes and get insurance!!!!!!!!!!!!
And you say you run red lights – that’s nice of you – what happens if you run a red light right into my pricey car – then what? can I ask you to pay for the $1000 it’s gong to cost me to have the dent of your bike taken out of the side panel of my pricey car? will you have that $1000 right there so I don’t have to follow you to the ATM, b/c trust me I will
See I just feel there’s this weird entitlement amongst cyclists b/c they feel they are being nicer to mother earth than I am driving my car that they are above having to pay when they are acting like a jerk while riding.
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Too long, didn’t read. Can you do a short version?
I bicycle commute to work each day from Dyker Heights to downtown Brooklyn. I have the joy, honor and pleasure of riding through Prospect Park in both directions on my journey. In the morning, I see the lake as smooth as glass. I see the hundreds of other fitness-minded people out there a 6:30 a.m. as we all tacitly greet one another. I see the dogs playing in the field. I see the families in the evening gathering for concerts or cookouts. I see thousands of things that I would never see from a car. I burn no fossil fuels and save two-way subway fare to boot.
I only use the feared, destructive and dangerous PPW bike lane for one brief stretch in the morning so as to get to the bike lane going down Second Street.
I am also a regular driver in New York City and while there is certainly an occasional idiot cyclist I have never, ever seen the multitudes of law breaking two wheelers so many here would have you believe are out there. They just aren’t.
I run red lights on my bike. I do. It would make no sense from a time or fitness perspective to stop and wait for every light. Is it illegal? Absolutely. And when I get ticketed, I will take my lumps.
But it is no more illegal than the absolutely insane, self-centered, incredibly aggressive and dangerous driving that happens a thousand times a second in this city. The way people drive in NYC is my number one quality of life complaint. Hands down. It is disgusting.
As for the advocates of registering and insuring bikes, where is the line drawn? Does the sixth grader riding to school have to be insured and registered? He could cause an accident just the same as any other cyclist.
Does anyone really believe that the employers of the food delivery cyclists are going to comply with any such law?
How many people who complain about the insane tactics of the Manhattan bicycle messengers also use them to deliver or receive things?
There is not enough police power to preclude punk kids from driving 60 miles per hour up my family-oriented block so as to beat the light. Is a cyclist jumping a light after checking both ways more dangerous than them? Should a police officer be stopping cyclists and asking for registrations while livery cars are holding up dozens of cars while double parking (often in a bike lane)?
But none of this really gets to the true heart of the matter.
One of these days there will be no more cars as we know them as there will be no fuels left to run them. At what point are we forced to explore alternatives to that mode of transportation?
We are at that point.
This is DEADLY serious, gem. I’m never speaking to that Earth hater again.
Lech and DH – stop – u guys are tooo funny!