Rush Hour in Brooklyn
This was a first for us: En route to the office this morning we encountered actual congestion in the bike lane along Navy Street, though the strikingly homogeneous group of riders remained quite civil as they pulled up to the intersection and waited, law-abidingly, for the light to turn green. As we approached Sands Street,…
This was a first for us: En route to the office this morning we encountered actual congestion in the bike lane along Navy Street, though the strikingly homogeneous group of riders remained quite civil as they pulled up to the intersection and waited, law-abidingly, for the light to turn green. As we approached Sands Street, everyone else made a left towards the Manhattan Bridge as we continued on towards Dumbo.
“I guess I feel like the city is more concerned with making itself something it’s not”
And you just described another reason why NYC is so special…it’s always changing. You’ve for some reason put it in this outdated box. Perhaps when the sea level has risen and flooded half the city, you might realize the importance. But that’s all Liberal hogwash, right? Who cares about the future…I get to drive my ass to FAIRWAY baby! :))
“Seems like everyone has a car to go to Fairway (or to hightail it out of Brooklyn every weekend during the summer”
DH, that reminds me, you still using my car this weekend to go to Fairway and the Hamptons???
Look
we all can argue our sides and I agree there are plenty of horrid drivers and jaywalkers
I guess I feel like the city is more concerned with making itself something it’s not, we can support all these bike lanes and the proposal for even more….
the more lanes you take and give to bikers are less lanes for cars/trucks to drive which actually causes more traffic jams and pollution and slower deliveries
c’est la vie – ok back to job hunting 😉
I propose a cyclist appreciation day, a day of empathy when drivers try to imagine what it is like to cycle in this city.
I am going to do it myself this weekend. I am going to ride my Camry on the sidewalk, ride down the wrong way of a one way street, ride on the other side of a two way street, look around when there are red lights and go through them if there is no one around, ride on the middle line of the road. I might stop the car if I get tired and sit on the hood or the roof, people can go around me.
Because I like my sister ET, we could ride together and take up the entire road.
After that I will go back to my 360 degree neck rotation exercises which i am doing now to increase my range of motion to see the cyclists coming in all directions in my desire to avoid killing people.
THEN, I will wait until fall when the fair weather athletes will go back to jaywalking.
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Streetlife is the one thing that separates NYC from every other city in the U.S., Gem.
LMFAO
*rob*
Ditto, if my wife was with me (ie so she can watch my son), the biker riding wrong way who nearly hit my son and dared to mouth off would be a chalk outline already. I dont have too much issue with bikes riding the wrong way but shut the F up when you nearly get into an incident due to ridng in the wrong direction.
By reading some of these comments you would think every cyclist is a child molester, or worse a lawyer.
Streetlife is the one thing that separates NYC from every other city in the U.S., Gem.
If everyone gets in a car and no one walks, takes the subway or rides a bike, NYC is no longer NYC.
“Where do you stand on jaywalking? … but to think, for example, that a person on a bicycle at a red light on a quiet street in the outer boroughs with no oncoming traffic in sight is going to wait for a green light is, regardless of the law, both unrealistic and delusional”
QOTD!!
I’ll do my broken record thing too, in rebuttal to exptext’s overblown rhetoric. When we have enough bikes to make it safe and keep cars at bay, then I’ll obey all those laws. I neither hamper nor endanger anyone. And it’s safer for me.
And to the woman whose ‘kids were almost run over’…you know, in 10 years of cycling I have rarely seen anything like that (and I’ve seen 10x that by cars). You are probably being terminally cautious when you saw a biker come within 10’ of your kids. Most bikers are courteous (just like most drivers); stop focusing on the outliers.
While delivery bikes can be a little crazed, to say you feel threatened by them is ridiculous (well, maybe in Manhattan).