Prospect Park West Bike Lane Back in the News!
The inevitable backlash to last week’s report from the DOT that the Prospect Park West bike lane is a big success has finally arrived. That there video above from CBS2 shows Borough Prez Marty Markowitz disputing the DOT’s claims; Streetsblog fires back: “Marty seems to have either lost the ability to distinguish truth from fiction,…
The inevitable backlash to last week’s report from the DOT that the Prospect Park West bike lane is a big success has finally arrived. That there video above from CBS2 shows Borough Prez Marty Markowitz disputing the DOT’s claims; Streetsblog fires back: “Marty seems to have either lost the ability to distinguish truth from fiction, or his stubbornness is just all-consuming and he’s ceased to care about his public credibility.” Gothamist, meanwhile, has a quote from Markowitz in which the BP says that “we need an outside study—not one conducted by the DOT but perhaps by the NYPD—to get an impartial analysis of the Prospect Park West reconfiguration.” And, last but not least, the Brooklyn Paper is quick to print claims about how a conspiracy theory not imagined by Markowitz may be afoot: “One day after the Department of Transportation announced last week that the lane has improved safety for drivers and cyclists, two members of the city’s old guard — former Sanitation Commissioner Norman Steisel and former Transportation boss Iris Weinshall — struck back, claiming that the agency fudged numbers to make the lane appear more successful than it is.”
Markowitz on PPW Data: It’s a Vast Biking Conspiracy [Streetsblog]
Markowitz Says Activist Cyclists Distorted PPW Study [Gothamist]
Former Officials Slam City for Lying on Prospect Park West [BK Paper]
Welcome the ticket crackdown btw.
“Bikes and pedestrians are the unfortunate victims of said cars”
I think there are more than a few pedestrians that would disagree. Hell, I rode a bike while living in Manhattan for about 15 years. Never had an accident, never felt like a victim.
Really sick of cyclist entitlement and whining!
I agree that cars are a problem. I never said they were not. Bicyclists are an increasing problem as their numbers expand more rapidly than cars.
The bullshit about a car will do more damage to you than a bike is just for imbeciles that get hit by cars. Really, if you are not totally drunk it takes a lot to get hit by a car. A bike on the other hand, riding between cars stopped at a light and through an intersection, or going the wrong way on a one-way street is going to be a problem for more pedestrians.
I’m not sure why NYGuy thinks that is naive. maybe he doesn’t know the definition of naive.
Is there a law on the books that states cyclists have the right of way when behind a car that is making a turn across a bike lane? Unless someone can provide that law, I think the car has the right of way in both right and left turn situations when ahead of the cyclist.
As far as fudging numbers, it is more that possible. Have numbers been fudged in the name of global warming, health care costs, cfl energy consumption?
posted this about statistics on another thread. I’m cutting and pasting.
“agree with you about blanket statements but… people are too quick to provide “stats” as their proof that their opinion is correct. Statistics, in their pure (un political-bias funded) form, are very easy to manipulate depending on the wishful intended result.
Global warming, healthcare, cfl bulbs, cyclists accidents… . All topics supported by statistics. Except, more and more we are learning they (the statistics) are not complete or have been manipulated, blah, blah blah….
point being, don’t be so quick to assume statistics are correct, especially when they go along with your opinion”
Statistics bear this out….far more people are killed, injured and simply inconvenieÂnced for the sake of the all mighty automobileÂ.
Zinka;
Did your hear that Mayor Bloomberg and his DOT rep almost got booed off the stage last night at a meeting in Far Rockaway, due to the bike lane issue there?
I think your help is needed. Please go to the next Far Rockaway town hall meeting and inform these people that they are just ignorant because they don’t agree with you. That’s the way to do it.
wrong and wrong.
you are the one that decided i am mental and therefore everything i say is worthless. and when did i ever say i am a troll? i actually said the opposite, that i am done with my trolling ways.
back to the matter at hand, i just for once want to hear you admit that the real problem is cars and the way they are driven and that bikes and pedestrians are the unfortunate victims of said cars.
Draw two
randolph, you couldn’t engage anyone in an intelligent conversation if you had a book of instructions as to how to do it. Like you said a few weeks ago, you and Clyde are the trolls.
What’s your point, NYGuy????
zinka, if you believe the bullshit that you spout, I feel sorry for you. Equating listening to the other point of view with teaching creationism is, well, representative of a closed minded imbecilic lack of logical thinking.