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]
Man o’ man. If Brooklyn could be like Nantucket, that would be awesome. I think I’d have far less stress in my life.
How would a separated bike lane work on a street like this? I would almost think that it would be more dangerous due to lack of visibility to turning cars. The protected lane on Kent is great because you don’t have to deal with cars turning into your lane.
I didn’t mean to offend anyone when I wrote that Brooklyn was nothing like Copenhagen. Of course there is nothing wrong with trying to imitate the successes of other cities and cultures. But as I recall, Copenhagen is a very roomy city, except in the old town, which is like a combination of Brooklyn Heights and the South Street Seaport with the addition of royal palaces. It really is not a crowded city, I think most people live in the Metropolitan area, which means leafy suburbs. Anyway it possesses none of the diversity, hustle-bustle, grittiness, and downhome chaos of Brooklyn. We may as well wish to model ourselves after Nantucket. It is really apples and oranges.
Boerum — I actually agree with you.
The French (Parisians, particularly) are a miserable lot for many non-linguistic reasons. But the reason they tend to resist/hesitate speaking English is because they are not confident they can do it justice… and on the flip side, they REALLY don’t want to hear you speak French poorly. If you are truly fluent, they’ll embrace it. If you speak pigeon-French, they will ask you to speak English.
knowing 7 languages seems like it would take an awful amount of precious brain space.
*rob*
They should have eliminated one lane of parking and made a proper bike lane.
“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
tybur — i have always gotten on fine with people in France. Proper greetings, followed by the apology that you do not speak French well, and then asking (in French) if they can understand a little English seems to do the trick 95% of the time in both Paris and in more rural areas.
(Parisians may be rude in different ways, but I don’t think it is linguistically driven.)
The hoyt street bike lane is in the middle of the street and that street is only one lane wide. Now we’ll have some slow peddling mofo to hold up traffic. I hate these bike lane. They should all be separated from traffic by a barricade. And wtf don’t cops ticket them more for darting into traffic without any kind of signal, riding the wrong way on one way streets and almost running me over on side walks! Plus there ought to be a law against riding a bike at night while wearing all black clothing, I almost got killed by some jerk on a dark bike in dark clothes at 10pm.
I hate these f’ing things.
End of rant.