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.
“Why in the world do you live in the most densely populated city in the country but are so judgmental about all of the things that make it special?”
Bikes don’t make Park SLope or the city special IMO!!!!
let me count the million other things why I live here – it ain’t bikes my friend – it ain’t bikes
“i dont understand why they are driving to begin with most of the time. unless youre delivering something or driving around the elderly and infirm, what is the need to drive everywhere? maybe bulk grocery!?”
Yeah, Seems like everyone has a car to go to Fairway (or to hightail it out of Brooklyn every weekend during the summer)
i dont understand why they are driving to begin with most of the time. unless youre delivering something or driving around the elderly and infirm, what is the need to drive everywhere? maybe bulk grocery!?
*rob*
Thank you, DH. Perfectly summed up.
I see so many comments on this website about ew….that 500sf apartment is soo small, ewww bicylists are so Parisian and I need 3 lanes to speed down PPW or oooh…can’t wait for the new Starbucks cause the 3 on the other side of the street are too far.
Why in the world do you live in the most densely populated city in the country but are so judgmental about all of the things that make it special?
I find this picture quite heartening, no cyclists jumping the red light.
“what does it matter if i ride the wrong way down a one way street if i’m not in the middle of the road? ”
I’m glad you asked that. I nearly injured a cyclist on my street last week. Pulling out (must have been 5mph at most) from behind a parked van and using my mirror to look behind to see if anything was coming down the one way street some lunatic cyclist (I know – most are normal people) cycling the wrong way in the bike lane (abutting the parked cars of course) suddenly sees me and swerves out into the middle of the road to avoid the front end of my car and starts mouthing off at me. Initially flabbergasted that someone could be so stupid I got out the car and told him there’s no way he can be seen from the parked motorists position and if he carried on riding the wrong way on a one-way street bike lane where there are parked cars it was only a matter of time before he had a collision. In future I’ll have a third party with a red flag in the road waving ahead my car as it pulls out. Or have an extra forward-facing mirror and periscope for looking around corners.
May I make one comment about this issue?
I drive and bike. I agree that it would be better if more folks used their bikes in our city, and I tend to agree that more should be done to accommodate them.
Having said all that, please spare me the righteousness about bikes and oil. Many of the same folks who like to blow their horn about how “green” their bike-riding makes them think nothing of getting on a plane to go on an African safari tour.
I will never understand why people live in densely populated urban areas and complain that it’s a pain to drive.
“the strikingly homogeneous group of riders remained quite civil”
Clearly, Mr. B, you haven’t run into (literally) the a**hole Wall Street banker who lies in wait for me on the Brooklyn Bridge and then tries to run me down, even riding into the bike line to do it!
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tired of seeing really pasty white woman legs peddling on their silly vintage bikes…
and always in flip flops. and oftentimes seen flipping people behind them the bird!
*rob*