Smith Street Bike Lanes Marked
Not long after construction began on the Prospect Park West bike lane (recent photo on the jump), the markings have gone down Smith Street, continuing the existing bike lane from Bergen all the way down to 9th Street. This is part of the Hoyt street extension from Bergen to 3rd, which has already been completely…
Not long after construction began on the Prospect Park West bike lane (recent photo on the jump), the markings have gone down Smith Street, continuing the existing bike lane from Bergen all the way down to 9th Street. This is part of the Hoyt street extension from Bergen to 3rd, which has already been completely painted.
Behold the Prospect West Bike Lane! [Brownstoner]
New Bike Lanes on Smith and Hoyt [Brownstoner]
Smith and Hoyt Street Bicycle Lane Extensions [NYC DOT]
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Hey, rob, I’m fairly certain I’ve seen you walking around Park Slope in flip flops. Just sayin’…. 🙂
i plead the 5th
*rob*
So, I am trying to follow this comment thread.
Iraq ? (lol at 11:54 AM, btw.) So what is the gist of this thread?
Bike lane in the middle of the road looks dangerous.
Iraq is dangerous. Knowing too many languages can take too many brain cells, or not. Compliments, however, to Park Sloper who knows so many.
Yes, true that Scandinavians speak many languages.
One of my cousins there who is better at English than most of us and keeps up via TV (!), wrote to me: “my husband only speaks two languages but he is a good man anyway!”
Hey, I just noticed that in the picture of the biker in the Smith Street bike lane, there’s ANOTHER biker riding the OTHER WAY on the SIDEWALK! Classic!!!
Hey, rob, I’m fairly certain I’ve seen you walking around Park Slope in flip flops. Just sayin’…. 🙂
Joe — They will never close the park to cars or even reduce the traffic to one-lane. There’s a powerful voting block that will prevent this… They drive mini-vans extremely aggressively and have unkempt beards. This particular ‘constituency’ prevents a lot of progress in this fine borough.
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by the way, why do bikers assume they have the right-of-way over pedestrians, just because they have fancy biking outfits and expensive bikes?
usually, yeah. never underestimate the entitlement of the flip-flop class.
*rob*
tybur that all makes sense. so are they ever going to take the cars out of the park then? I see a thing that looks like a hose lying across the road that I think they use to count cars.
by the way, why do bikers assume they have the right-of-way over pedestrians, just because they have fancy biking outfits and expensive bikes?
“Yep, Copenhagen is exactly like Iraq.”
Good thing Bush, Cheney and their henchmen didn’t agree or we would have invaded Denmark as well.
No, Joe, we’re sending cars through the park because there is a PERCEPTION that there is a need for it.
The Park Road is ridiculous. THAT road should be ONE-LANE for cars if they insist on having cars. There is NO need for more than one lane. And the Pedestrian/Jogging/Biking lanes could be widened — and made two-way. You do know the Park Drive is ONE-WAY, right?
The DOT studied PPW and determined that the volume DID NOT justify three lanes. Simple as that. The bike lane (protected and not part of car traffic) is really secondary. The primary goal is traffic calming — i.e., reducing the Indy 500 style driving. It works. And it will work on this road. Just because the road is straight and you can see all the way to the end, it doesn’t mean you have to get there in 30 seconds.
As far as pedestrians… If they actually stay ON THE SIDEWALK until the light turns green, there really shouldn’t be any issues with the bike lane.