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]
but the last part is the NOTWITHSTANDING clause, which negates everything above it.
whatever, i’m not getting into this with you.
DIBS, YES- there can’t be any grey area in the law.
At the same time i feel like if i am on my bike, stop at a red light to wait for cars to pass, then from a stop go through the intersection before the light changes to green (just like a person on foot would and at a similar speed) that should not be worthy of getting a ticket.
There is also this:
“Driving on or across bicycle lanes prohibited. No person shall drive a
vehicle on or across a designated bicycle lane, except when it is reasonable and
necessary:
“to avoid an obstacle which leaves fewer than ten feet available for
the free movement of vehicular traffic.”
so, if a cyclist is behind a car and a car cannot pass in the vehicle lane, it can cross into the bike path legally to continue free movement.
read the whole thing Randolph
Yes, randolph. You are correct. But take a look at pig_three’s history of commenting. It’s belligerent and lacking much logical thought processes (though, there are, perhaps, one or two points of light) It’s not worth engaging pig_three.
Then randi, you will agree that bicyclists should get ticketed for every infraction, not just cars, tight???? Or is there a double standard in applying the law????
MONSEY, NY???????? Come on NYGuy, even you can do better than that. That’s as bad as vinka and her creationism argument from Texas.
ROTFLMMFAO
“….Notwithstanding any other rule, no person shall drive a vehicle on or across a
designated bicycle lane in such manner as to interfere with the safety and
passage of persons operating bicycles thereon.”
i think the key word is NOTWITHSTANDING, meaning in spite of all this other stuff, you can’t turn into a bike lane if there is an approaching biker….
right??? i am not a lawyer.
Everything that randolph said.
“Driving on or across bicycle lanes prohibited. No person shall drive a
vehicle on or across a designated bicycle lane, except when it is reasonable and
necessary:”
‘to make a turn within an intersection; or”
see, my point exactly. You see only what you think makes you correct. those other excerpts provide grey area for interpretation. Baring being drunk, a driver will not be considered at fault if making a turn ahead of a cyclist. Thats what lawyers are for I guess