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]
dibs: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….
Well, since you used the word, dibs, the bs is supplied entirely by you…what a crock that non-drunk peds cannot be hit by a car. In what universe?
And since there are probably 100x more car-ped accidents than bike-ped, your alarmist views have no basis. If you can’t avoid a bicycle you probably should not be walking about.
amen, ET.
This whole ‘discussion’ is silly.
It’s really all so simple.
Bike lanes are here. Cyclists will/should use them.
As a driver if you can’t obey the rules, then you shouldn’t have a license. If you’re a cyclist and you can’t obey the rules (yes, there are rules for cyclists), then you shouldn’t be riding a bike.
End of discussion.
Where’s COTD and HOTD?
Uno is a very addictive card game. Let’s play at the next Brownstoner gathering.
Wild Draw 4
Red
Wow, DIBS, you just convinced me that you are really and truly a complete idiot.
How did you accomplish this, you ask?
By writing the following: “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.”
Tell that to the woman and her twin 9 month old babies who were nearly killed ON THE SIDEWALK due to a speeding car, just a few blocks from my house. Or to any of the other daily victims of speeding cars and unlicensed drivers all over NYC.
You really are a jerk. “It takes a lot to get hit by a car.” If that isn’t one of the stupidest things I’ve ever read in my entire life. Wow.
shoot ET, you won again!
all i meant was that i’m not qualified to try to explain legal speak to anyone so i’m just gonna shut up.
UNO! As in Pizzeria Uno????? Man that pizza is really shit. Anyone who has ever lived in Chicago and has had a real deep dish pizza knows that.