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]
why do you need a bike lane next to a perfectly good park with a paved road through it? aren’t we sending CARS through the PARK because there are not enough lanes on PPW? so now we’ll have two mixed-use roads right next to each other for about a mile — both slow and both unsafe, and both bewildering to pedestrians (ever been on that park road right when traffic starts in the afternoon?) I’m sure I’m not the first to wonder….
I knew it! Damn steam ferries have ruined everything. I can’t think of *anything* those damn boats didn’t ruin at least a little!
Brooklyn has not been like Nantucket since about 1835, when steam ferry service to NYC started. Before that, it was probably very similar.
you ‘orrible lot need to learn how to speak English before you start trying your hand at other languages.
“We have much more in common with big unruly cities in Latin America and India than we do with Scandinavia, sorry to disappoint.”
I’ve lived in Copenhagen, but I do have to agree with this sentiment for the most part. But Copenhagen is more dense than you think (1 million people in the city itself; 1.8 million on the metropolitan area), and the traffic is notorious. At rush hour, the bike lanes are as full as the car lanes!
“Knowing 7 languages seems like it would take an awful amount of precious brain space.”
I know 5 languages (not counting others that I can read and understand but not really speak), and believe me, I’ve still got plenty of wasted brain space! 🙂
Parts of Red Hook remind me — the teeeeesiest little bit — of Nantucket. Does that count?
*rob*, learning new languages actually promotes neural connections and new pathways. It doesn’t “take up” cognitive space. We’d be a much smarter lot if we were willing or able to be a bilingual or trilingual country. We are, of course, not. And seemingly proud of it.
By 11217 on June 10, 2010 12:50 PM
“There are probably more people in Park Slope and Brooklyn Heights than in all of Copenhagen”
Copenhagen is 1.1 million people.
Park Slope has 65,000
Brooklyn Heights has 22,000
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DOH!
So close…
By Boerumresident on June 10, 2010 12:48 PM
(Parisians may be rude in different ways, but I don’t think it is linguistically driven.)
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IME that was very much the case 25-30 years ago. Now it seems an antiquated stereotype that won’t die; I agree, if you make a minimal effort, they tend to be very accommodating.
Funny we are discussing linguistic Danes. My first time in Italy, very first euro train ride, got in a cubicle with a Dutch gentleman who greeted me first in Italian, then German, then French, before he went into fluent English.
quote:
We may as well wish to model ourselves after Nantucket.
sadly, too many people in nyc do these days 🙁
*rob*