PPW Bike Lanes Reducing Traffic Speed
Park Slope Neighbors conducted a radar gun study along Prospect Park West and found that average speeds on Prospect Park West have been reduced by nearly 25% by the addition of bike lanes. The group, which has been pro-bike lane from the beginning, also reported that the number of cars traveling more than 40 mph…
Park Slope Neighbors conducted a radar gun study along Prospect Park West and found that average speeds on Prospect Park West have been reduced by nearly 25% by the addition of bike lanes. The group, which has been pro-bike lane from the beginning, also reported that the number of cars traveling more than 40 mph has been cut by 95 percent. “Prospect Park West has been transformed from a noisy speedway on which nearly every vehicle was speeding to a calmer, quieter neighborhood street on which the great majority of drivers are now obeying the speed limit,” commented Park Slope Neighbors campaign coordinator Eric McClure. “What a difference a lane makes.” Brooklyn Borough President, who opposed the creation of the bike lanes, wasn’t buying it. “Double-parking is still commonplace and the result is more noise from car-honking, more pollution from traffic jams and more frustration to residents and visitors alike,” Markowitz told The Brooklyn Paper.
PPW Bike Lane Puts the Brakes on Speeders [Park Slope Neighbors]
Okay, so you turn off PPW onto an Eastbound street, then you stop 1/3rd of the way down the block to let your kid out so he/she can walk around the corner to the school. Another car does the same behind you and another behind that. The blocks are only wide enough for 1 car to fit through with cars parked on either side, so now car #4 is stopped in the right hand land on PPW with its turn signal on trying to turn at the corner behind you. Car #5 which is driven by Marty’s driver, attempting to pick him up in WT must come to a stop and then tries to signal and pull out into traffic in the left lane. Car #6 which has another family attempting a drop off says F*&# it and lets junior out in the right hand driving lane.Car #7 who has seen what is going on is in the left hand lane trying to avoid the drama when Marty’s driver pulls out a little more causing him to have to stop. Voila! Traffic jam.
Now imagine that repeating itself for 45 minutes to an hour every weekday morning. I tell ya’ its gonna get ugly over there.
PPW runs from North to South. Morning rush hour runs from South (Outer Brooklyn) to North (towards downtown, Flatbush ave, Brooklyn bridge, etc.). Rush hour really only hits PPW during the afternoon rush, which peaks a few hours after school lets out.
In addition, cars can use the park drive from 7am to 9am, so if you think PPW will be congested from double parking, use the park.
8th ave, which runs from South to North, has had only 2 lanes for years, and nobody complained about it being “not enough”. Furthermore, 8th ave has buildings on both sides of the street, and therefore has twice the buildings that PPW has.
The complaints about stopping to let people in/out (including kids) are insane. Turn off PPW onto a street, then stop, you dummies. Let the blighters walk 1/3 of a block it won’t kill them.
Oh, I forgot about the disabled dads…wasn’t that the excuse for the curb cut/garage in the Manhattan townhouse yesterday?
tybur6, that 542k is the 1st yr pay of a banker or maybe only a fraction of it. it might be worth it.
“ditto, when’s the last time you ran across a ricjh person who was feelthy and steenking? Isn’t that usually more the case for the middle classes and the poor??”
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no, there is no exhaustion point.
Is there any exhaustion point to bike lane posts or preservation posts?
“Seriously, they’re called loading zones. Put them in front of the places where people are double-parking, and people will stop double parking.”
Except that this would reduce parking spaces — the reason that many slopers are against this plan.
“Most cars don’t speed through the intersection against the light, wasder.”
True. I think I’ve only seen a car run a red light once. People died.
That said, there are so many dickish bikers. I was on PPW (on my bike) and yelled at someone for not yielding to pedestrians (who actually had the light – not that it matters to them most of the time). He couldn’t have cared less.
Hey – I’m a ‘union guy’ and I smell of orange sherbet.