Prospect Park West to Get Bike Lane
On the heels of the two-way protected bike lane in progress on Kent Street, the Department of Transportation is getting ready to install a similar bike lane along Prospect Park West, a recent post by Transportation Alternatives reminds us. (The Brooklyn Paper had a story on the project last April). The path will provide 1.8…
On the heels of the two-way protected bike lane in progress on Kent Street, the Department of Transportation is getting ready to install a similar bike lane along Prospect Park West, a recent post by Transportation Alternatives reminds us. (The Brooklyn Paper had a story on the project last April). The path will provide 1.8 miles of bike lane between Union Street and Bartel Pritchard Square, intended to provide a safe biking route as well as calm automobile traffic. The DOT report (PDF) says that Prospect Park West “traffic volume does not warrant three travel lanes” and this one-way road is prone to speeding and reckless driving. The new path is part of New York City’s 1997 Bicycle Master Plan. You can check out an elevation plan from when we first covered the topic.
New York’s Best Bike Lane [Transportation Alternatives]
The New York City Bicycle Master Plan [DOT]
Oh wait…that’s a two way bike lane on a one way street! You’ll never get to the park, just give it up and hang out on your terrace.
Thanks to all of Bloomy’s bike lanes, I’m training myself to look both ways on one way streets. Without bike lanes, people rarely cruised against traffic. Now with all these effen green lanes you have to pretend you’re in London. I cross Clinton at Livingston St everyday, and everyday I almost get nailed by a biker coming off the bridge going the wrong way. SO, my advice if you are heading to the park, look right as well as left.
Thank you Jack Slade
This is soo messed up
two lanes? have you seen how crazy it is sat mornings with everyone double parking for fresh veggies?
breaking news from 2010: New bike lane on the LIE!
This is freaking AWESOME.
I’ve tried to bike on PPW, and it’s taking your life in your hands. Cars speed down it like maniacs, and I’ve almost been doored by parked cars.
Two lanes will definitely help slow down traffic there, which is all to the good. And if they’re widening the sidewalks as they do this, that’s really great.
One thing I do worry about is pedestrian/bike interactions. There should probably be little speed bumps at each pedestrian intersection, to slow down the bikes.
Non-biker, non-driver purposely remaining agnostic on the age-old struggle of wheeled vehicles for asphalt space, but hot diggity I’m happy there’s a chance that bikes will get off the PPW sidewalk.
ARE YOU EFFIN KIDDING ME?
I MEAN WHAT?????????
WHO THE EFF IS RUNNING THE SHOW OVER AT DOT AND PLANNING?
ok so now not only do I have to weave around all the out of town idiots looking to park their cars on PPW to enjoy the park, move around all the double-parked cars on the right side who are obviously residents of the buildings on PPW trying to unload groceries, now we add a bike lane to this mess
I lived at 9th and PPW for a couple years — killing a lane on PPW is going to create an absolute clusterfuck during the summer.
Since I’ve only biked on PPW a couple thousand times in the last 20+ years, maybe I’m not a qualified observer, but as far as I can tell the only objective of this is to say ‘fuck you’ to motorists. My bike operates perfectly well in the same roadway as other vehicles, so I don’t know what other people are riding. And if the park road which parallels PPW is really inadequate because it’s one-way, it would make more sense to put a two-way bike lane there, on a road where cars are prohibited for all but ten hours a week. Especially since the given rationale is that traffic volume on PPW doesn’t justify three travel lanes.