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]
i have no problems with with bike lanes and i dont have a bike or a car so i have no leg in this race, but what is the point of slowing down traffic? traffic is supposed to be speedy, not slow.
*rob*
Are you saying they aren’t?
ditto – who says there are?
It’s amazing that the politicians and (whiny) residents think that the efforts by the DOT (mechanical interventions) would ever produce a complete solution… unless you remove ALL flexibility you still need the police to step up and *actually* enforce traffic laws!
Or, perhaps we can make the roads into slot car tracks and we can just hook in like at an automatic car wash.
tybur, the idea that there are any less a percentage of law-breaking cycylists than there are motorists needs to be put to bed.
ditto — It’s getting old. (and pointless…)
I agree, no cars in the park. And more traffic calming measures on purely residential streets.
The traffic is noticeably slower. Marty’s logic once again defies . . . well, logic. And I haven’t noticed any increase in noise. Traffic on PPW is rarely terrible. And even if it were, is it the responsibility of pedestrians and cyclists to accommodate it?
Now if they could just ban cars in the park . . . .
What is this organization? I have never heard of them.